The countdown is very much on for Fast and Furious 6, with its May release date fast approaching. Justin Lin’s latest instalment in the highly successful franchise features an all-star cast, and Universal have been doing a brilliant job of promoting the blockbuster sequel, having found a wealth of success with Fast Five.
The full-length trailer that hit soon after the studio’s awesome Super Bowl TV spot was more than a little bit immense. And we’ve seen plenty more from the film in recent weeks. And with its release date just over a month away in the US, and just under a month away in the UK, Apple have debuted a new featurette for the film.
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 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 written all the films Lin’s directed in the series.
Vin Diesel has already announced that Fast and Furious 7 will be hitting theatres on July 11th, 2014, which means that we’ve got at least one more instalment to look forward to in just over a year’s time. Amazing.
Fast and Furious 6 will be released on 17th May here in the UK, with its US release date following a week later on May 24th. This is going to be epic.
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