No more Fast & Furious films, RIP Paul Walker

mike_l · December 2013

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2516327/Fast-And-Furious-actor-Vin-Diesel-leads-way-stars-pay-tribute-Paul-Walker.html

Lixarto · December 2013

While it is tragic that that chap died at such a young age, and I have every sympathy with his family, no more of those terrible films can only be a good thing.

guitargeek62 · December 2013

Unfortunately for all of us, I'm sure there'll be more sequels.

Shit way to go though, hope they weren't conscious when that fire started $:\$

octatonic · December 2013

Lixarto said:

While it is tragic that that chap died at such a young age, and I have every sympathy with his family, no more of those terrible films can only be a good thing.

guitargeek62 said:

Unfortunately for all of us, I'm sure there'll be more sequels.

Shit way to go though, hope they weren't conscious when that fire started $:\$

Very sad and a horrible way to go.

I don't think they will kill the franchise just because one actor dies.

Films are entirely risible.

chillidoggy · December 2013

Poor bastard survives all the horrendous car shunts in the films, and his mate goes and drives into a lamp post. And they say the Americans don't do irony.

fretmeister · December 2013

2 soon?

chillidoggy · December 2013

Ordinarily I'd have agreed, but check the films out, and I hope you'll cut me some slack here.

fretmeister · December 2013

Not aimed at you.

Just the risible use of "2" in the titles of some of the films.

randomhandclaps · December 2013

Unbelievably I read somewhere before that the Fast & Furious film franchise are the biggest earner ever. I gather it's because every country in the world has it's own large share of idiots and fast and flashy cars and driving are seemingly universally attractive.

octatonic · December 2013

randomhandclaps said:

Unbelievably I read somewhere before that the Fast & Furious film franchise are the biggest earner ever. I gather it's because every country in the world has it's own large share of idiots and fast and flashy cars and driving are seemingly universally attractive.

This is true.

fretmeister · December 2013

The franchise has made $1.5 Billion.

guitargeek62 · December 2013

Which doesn't make it the biggest earner.

15th, in fact.

Myranda · December 2013

Buzzfeed fail? Marvel Cinematic universe, and spiderman, and the x-men seperated arbitarily to bump harry potter up a notch...

Have they only used the box-office info? Apparently the first starwars movie took more in box office revenue than the prequel trillogy... they must have added in toy revenue as well surely

octatonic · December 2013

Wow.

Star Wars AND Indiana Jones added don't top James Bond.

Myranda · December 2013

21 films (not counting the Casino Royale that's not part of the official canon, or Never Say Never Again) though they have 25 segments, so don't know what they've added in... vs 15 films...

Also they have the 4th one grossing about a billion dollars before they'd really invented a billion... I'm not sure I agree with the bars in this bar chart

Myranda · December 2013

http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=starwars4.htm

A New Hope took $307million their bar indicates it took around $3 billion

And they have 25 out of 21 bond films. Difficult to believe things when some things are definitely wrong

--Edit--

Hadn't noticed that they were "adjusted for inflation" or "made up"

ESchap · December 2013

Says they are adjusted for inflation, if done accurately it makes sense.

guitargeek62 · December 2013

Myranda said:

Buzzfeed fail? Marvel Cinematic universe, and spiderman, and the x-men seperated arbitarily to bump harry potter up a notch...

Spiderman, and X-Men aren't the properties of Marvel Studios

(Which is why there haven't been any crossovers between the 3 yet.)

*edit* And there are 23 canon Bond films, and 2 non-canon.

Myranda · December 2013

Thing is... it does, and doesn't.

A New Hope took $307 million dollars. Sure adjusting for inflation means they were worth more, but it was still $307 million... not $3 billion dollars.

Also, it's "Franchise" how much each franchise made should include anything spun off from those films... which for almost all of them includes toys, games, clothing, bed spreads, books, clocks, posters, branded foods, comics...

Otherwise... Titanic should have made it onto the list as it took more than a couple of the bottom ones - only one film in the franchise but it made more than Rambo or Bourne ...

Also inflation is bad enough when applied to the amounts taken - but they've applied it to the quantity of Bond films

ICBM · December 2013

Myranda said:
Also inflation is bad enough when applied to the amounts taken - but they've applied it to the quantity of Bond films

Looks like they've included the two unofficial Bonds, which are not strictly part of the franchise. Doesn't change the result though.

Chilli sort of beat me to it, but I have a suspicion that this actor died because his friend forgot that the laws of physics apply to cars when you're not in a movie.

Neil · December 2013

Too fast... too furious?

I have never seen one of the films and have every sympathy for the young daughter he left but looking at the crash pic I don't think there is much doubt that car was being driven at very high speeds.

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Handsome_Chris · December 2013

fretmeister said:

The franchise has made $1.5 Billion.

guitargeek62 said:

Which doesn't make it the biggest earner.

15th, in fact.

$1.5 billion would go a long way solve my problems.

johnnyurq · December 2013

Handsome_Chris;95447" said:
fretmeister said:

The franchise has made $1.5 Billion.

guitargeek62 said:

Which doesn't make it the biggest earner.

15th, in fact.

$1.5 billion would go a long way solve my problems.

And then creating a whole shitload of other problems

, who am I kidding you could buy your own chain of islands and fuck the world off big time.

Handsome_Chris · December 2013

Sod that. I'd blow that money on making Surprise, Surprise the musical. Moby Dick the musical is too problematic.

guitargeek62 · December 2013

Looks like the road he was on has 15-25mph speed limits right about where he crashed.

Hmm.

https://maps.google.ie/maps?q=34.45336,-118.579034&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=0x80c27ddfefd95d79:0xdede5381061f1b66,34.45336,-118.579034&gl=ie&ei=9yKbUtvpGrP07Ab8poCICw&ved=0CC4Q8gEwAA

*edit* also looks to be more of a commercial/reatil/science park than a public street too.

randomhandclaps · December 2013

The good thing is that he would have felt absolutely no fear, he just would have sat quietly waiting for the stunt double to take over.

holnrew · December 2013

You don't burst into flames going at a sensible speed. Doesnt matter how "good" the driver was either. On roads used by other members of the public, the only good driver is a safe driver.

mike_l · December 2013

@holnrew ; unless you're unlucky and break a fuel pipe....I have seen that once or twice.........

DiscoStu · December 2013

The article I read said that it was the biggest franchise of Universal Studios, not the entire film industry.

guitargeek62 · December 2013

Can't be, Jurassic Park & Jaws are both Universal too.

Looks like Fast 7 has been put on hold, but not cancelled. It was halfway through development.

wibble · December 2013

RIP.

In homage to F&F, on the drive to the shops this morning, I changed gears about 100 times
(all upshifts)

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