Fast-and-Furious-6-PosterJustin Lin’s Fast and Furious 6 is definitely my most anticipated movie of next month*, and that is definitely an impressive feat in a month that also includes The Great Gatsby, Star Trek Into Darkness, and The Hangover Part III.

Everything we’ve seen from the action blockbuster so far suggests that the stakes have been raised that much further since the game-changing Fast Five. And after catching the latest featurette for the film last week, we’ve got a new featurette that goes behind the scenes on some of the action, and again features plenty of brilliant footage.

Since Dom (Diesel) and Brian’s (Walker) Rio heist toppled a kingpin’s empire and left their crew with $100 million, our heroes have scattered across the globe. But their inability to return home and living forever on the lam have left their lives incomplete.

Meanwhile, Hobbs (Johnson) has been tracking an organization of lethally skilled mercenary drivers across 12 countries, whose mastermind (Evans) is aided by a ruthless second-in-command revealed to be the love Dom thought was dead, Letty (Rodriguez). The only way to stop the criminal outfit is to outmatch them at street level, so Hobbs asks Dom to assemble his elite team in London. Payment? Full pardons for all of them so they can return home and make their families whole again.

Vin Diesel and Paul Walker take the lead of a brilliant cast once more. And they’re joined by another stellar ensemble, led by Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans, Joe Taslim, Tyrese Gibson, Gina Carano, Gal Gadot, Elsa Pataky, and the brilliant Sung Kang.

Lin is behind the camera once more, directing from a script penned by Chris Morgan, who’s penned all the films that Lin has directed in the series.

With Fast and Furious 7 now set for release on July 11th, 2014, things are definitely looking good for one of the most successful franchises of all time.

Fast and Furious 6 will be hitting theatres on 17th May here in the UK, with its US release date set for a week later on May 24th. Here’s the latest featurette to get you in the mood.

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Source: Thanks to Alan for the heads up. Much appreciated.

*Had Iron Man 3 been released in May here in the UK, I’ll admit my top spot would look a little different. Nonetheless, I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to Fast and Furious 6.