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The film records how the cars in The Fast and the Furious are equipped as props for action movies: the process includes the intervention of various mechanics, roll cages, resistance tires and fuel cells. But after the movie, where are all the cars that flew off the plane with parachutes, rushed off the cliff and were run over by tanks?

The crew hired Bonnie's scrapped car house to completely destroy the scrapped cars and then recycle the scrap metal. Photo: Jeff Curry

Shortly after stuntmen from Vin Diesel and michelle rodriguez and other members of Speed and furious 7 filmed a near-miss car chase on a rugged mountain road in Colorado Springs, richard johnson received a phone call. Seeing his "Buy Scrap Cars" sign on the expressway, the crew wanted Bonnie's owner to tow away 20-30 scrapped cars, including several.

After filming Speed 7, the crew took the crashed car to a small parking lot in the nearby Monaque Ski Resort. Zhan Sen must transport these cars away within two days, so that the resort can prepare for the tourist season. Dennis McCarthy, the car coordinator of the set, said. We destroyed about 40 cars just shooting that scene.

Then Zhan Sen and his team came from Panlos, and spent several days loading these broken cars on semi-trailers and dragging them away. In order to repair the prop car, the crew insisted that he completely destroy all the cars to prevent anyone from being injured. So today we see that the black essence galloping in Super 7 no longer exists. "It's really unusual to see some new models of Mercedes-Benz destroyed in vain." Zhan Sen sighed.

Filmmakers in Speed series have to destroy hundreds of cars in each film, and Speed 7 alone smashed more than 230 cars. In Speed 6 2065438+03, when the tank rushed out of the military transport plane and ran to the highway in Trinidad, Spain, the crew signed an agreement with the local garbage dump and the flying car recycling station. "We smash 25 cars every day, and they tow away 25 new ones at night." McCarthy said. "This process is very urgent, and a lot of trailers and transport vehicles are needed." In 20 1 1 Fast 5, when the "Fast 5" gang dragged a big safe in a bank and ran amok in the streets of Puerto Rico, the producers and the local government also reached an agreement to let them borrow abandoned cars from the abandoned parking lot in San Juan at a low price and transport them to the studio.