2 New FAST 8 Featurettes Give Us a Set Tour and “Zombie Cars”
If you’re as pumped up for director F. Gary Gray’s Fast 8 as much as I am, you’re gonna want to check out these two new featurettes for the film. The first is called “Zombie Cars” and it features horde of cars driving off of a parking structure and landing on a bunch of other cars on the street. J.D. Schwalm, Special Effects Supervisor on the film explains:
"We have seven cars falling from the parking structure, and each one of them is aiming at a motorcade here. We have to pull these cars at an exact speed, and we're doing that using the winch on the crane. Each car comes out in succession to land on the vehicles on the road here. Obviously, there's no one in them because they're about to be impaled by 3000-pound lawn darts."
The second video gives us a 15 minute tour of the set by Vehicle Coordinator Dennis McCarthy. He shows off all of the cars being used in the film, which adds up to about $17 million worth in cars.
Fast 8 is in its second week of production and it’s expected to hit US theaters on April 14, 2017.