{"id":13487,"date":"2015-10-05T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13487"},"modified":"2017-03-05T08:42:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T12:42:32","slug":"21-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-fast-and-furious-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=13487","title":{"rendered":"21 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About the &#8220;Fast and Furious&#8221; Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2015\/z100515fastandfurious_trivia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywood.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood.com<\/a><\/strong> presents <del><b>21 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About the <em>Fast and Furious<\/em> Franchise<\/b><\/del>. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">13.\u00a0Vin Diesel got the right to another movie franchise\u2026just for showing up.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>In lieu of a paycheck for his cameo at the end of the film, Vin Diesel traded with Universal \u2013 his cameo, for the rights to the Riddick franchise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">18. The Rock\u2019s part was written for\u2026Tommy Lee Jones?<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>The role of Luke Hobbs was written with Tommy Lee Jones or Josh Brolin in mind for the part, but when Dwayne Johnson (n\u00e9e The Rock) approached the studio about joining the franchise, Universal had the filmmakers rework the part for him instead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">21.\u00a0The films\u2019 timeline makes no sense.\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>On the surface, the <em>Furious<\/em> franchise seems pretty simple: Cars go fast, stuff gets smashed, beginning-middle-end. But the films are actually this weird non-linear series, told out of sequence. When you look at the whole story, it constantly jumps back and forth through time, and major plot points are told through flashbacks. <em>Fast &amp; Furious<\/em>, <em>Fast Five<\/em>, and <em>Furious 6<\/em> are an internal trilogy of prequels, that actually circle back to the third film,<em>Tokyo Drift<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood.com presents 21 Things You Didn&#8217;t Know About the Fast and Furious Franchise. \u00a0Here are three of my favorites&#8230; 13.\u00a0Vin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13487"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17476,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13487\/revisions\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}