Hobbs and Shaw
The first of hopefully manyFast & Furiousspinoffsis now uncommitted on abode video , and to celebrateHobbs & Shawgetting their own tale - and vehicles to match - we travel to England to get the most authentic Shaw experience possible .
Deckard Shaw set about as a baddie in theFastseries , played Jason Statham , but as the series run on we read about his phratry and origins - revealing him to be more of an antihero . ForFast & Furious Presents : Hobbs & Shaw , Deckard must reluctantly team up with Luke Hobbs ( Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson ) to take on a nemesis from his past .
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And to agree is mode and driving prowess , Deckard drives a McLaren 720s in the cinema , choose due to Statham ’s own personal interest and demand to drive it for this movie . McLaren agreed and become not only the ply of Deckard Shaw ’s sub fomite , but their headquarters ( the McLaren Technology Centre ) in Woking , United Kingdom because the lair of the adversary in the movie .
Statham drove the McLaren 720S himself at the iconic Silverstone Circuit so , thanks to Universal Pictures Home Entertainment , we did as well . And afterward , in the inhuman winter dawning , we also speak withHobbs & Shaw’sVehicle Coordinator , Alex King about how they made picture show magic with these vehicles .
And yes , I hit 240 km / h just a few laps in with no training and my first time on Silverstone !
Interview With Hobbs & Shaw Vehicle Coordinator Alex King
Screen Rant ’s Rob Keyes : When you ’re contrive action place piece involving a car like [ the McLaren 720S ] what ’s the most intriguing successiveness to realize in live - activity ?
Alex King : If we reckon at the sequence in Hobbs & Shaw I think most hoi polloi can probably say the one that bear out …
The drive underneath the hand truck …
Alex King : Yeah , maybe [ Laughs ] .
[ Laughs ]
Alex King : There are so many approach to it but how do you attain that ? What do you do ? And is it practical or is it CGI and part virtual ? How do you make it work ? That one was probably the trickiest but we were get at it to make it work as close as possible .
And then we get to see Idris Elba ’s character drive this tops techy futurist motorcycle .
Alex King : Yes .
How did you shoot down on that fomite design ?
Alex King : We built about 15 bike for Idris ’ fleet . And quite late in , David Scheunemann , our [ production ] designer , and I met with Triumph and they were showing us some bikes . And David decided - along with our conductor , David Leitch , pronounce let ’s go down the line of Triumph and we go with a Speed Triple and we had to qualify that to adjudicate to keep it in line of merchandise with what had already been design for Idris ’ fleet . I think there ’s a certain amount of element from the bikes and vehicles we progress that we put to the Speed Triple and made it its own .
Last inquiry ! If you could choose any car for you to be in a Fast & Furious picture , what would yours be ?
Alex King : Well , now I ’m on the spot wall by McLaren ! It may be the young GT .
For us , it ’d be the McLaren 600LT or McLaren 720s having meet and tested both at Silverstone - and later , witness how they were built at McLaren HQ . Jason Statham is on to something with that choice …
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Synopsis
For years , loom law officer Luke Hobbs and lawless Ishmael Deckard Shaw have traded slap talk and body blows . But when cyber - genetically raise anarchist Brixton Lorr ( Idris Elba ; “ Thor : Ragnarok , ” “ The Dark Tower ” ) bring in control of an pernicious bio - threat that could alter manhood forever , Hobbs and Shaw must partner up to bring down the only guy who might be badder than themselves . Joining the mould as Shaw ’s sister Hattie , Vanessa Kirby ( Mission : Impossible - Fallout , “ The Crown ” ) “ is convincing as a woman who can take maintenance of herself ” ( Rafer Guzman , Newsday ) . Directed by David Leitch from a story by longtime Fast & angered narration architect Chris Morgan and a screenplay by Morgan and Drew Pearce ( Mission : unimaginable – Rogue Nation , Iron Man 3 ) , Hobbs & Shaw is produced by Johnson , Statham , Morgan and Hiram Garcia ( Skyscraper , violent disorder ) .
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Fast & Furious Presents : Hobbs & Shawis available on Digital , 4 atomic number 19 Ultra HD , Blu - ray , videodisc and On Demand .
