History Trivia / TheFastAndTheFurious

* MarketBasedTitle: Many foreign countries have regular NumberedSequels instead of the word removal - only "Fast" or "Furious" - they got in English (at times with TheForeignSubtitle - for instance, ''Fast Five'' is known in many countries as ''Fast and Furious 5: Rio Heist''). Likewise, ''Furious 7'' and ''The Fate of the Furious'' are known as just ''Fast and Furious 7'' and ''Fast and Furious 8''. However, all the films in the series so far has been released in Japan under the title ''Wild Speed'' instead.

* HostilityOnTheSet: An infamous one between Creator/VinDiesel and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, sometimes memetically referred to as "[=#CandyAssGate=]" due to the latter's word choice in describing the former. The two largely refused to film scenes together in most of their shared films (resulting in scenes between the two rarely containing both their faces in the same shot, such as the hospital scene in ''Film/Furious7''), and routinely criticized each other (and not in an affectionate way) in interviews. After Diesel attempted to claim during interviews for ''Film/{{F9}}'' that his behavior on ''Film/FastFive'' was to bring Johnson's performance up to his standards, Johnson announced he was leaving the series, barring the Diesel-free ''Hobbs & Shaw'' films.

* DevelopmentHell: The seventh movie was almost [[http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/paul-walker-dead-fast-furious-2889701 forced into this status]] due to [[AuthorExistenceFailure the death]] of Paul Walker in November 2013, who portrayed Brian O'Connor, [[SavedFromDevelopmentHell before being restarted in January 2014]].

* ReleaseDateChange: ''F9'' was scheduled to be released May 22, 2020, but pushed to April 2, 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The new date was previously occupied by the tenth film in the franchise, which had yet to begin production when the change was made. As of March 4, 2021, the movie is set be released on June 28th of that year.

* HostilityOnTheSet: An infamous one between Creator/VinDiesel and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, sometimes memetically referred to as "[=#CandyAssGate=]" due to the latter's word choice in describing the former. The two largely refused to film scenes together in most of their shared films (resulting in scenes between the two rarely containing both their faces in the same shot, such as the hospital scene in ''Film/Furious7''), and routinely criticized each other (and not in an affectionate way) in interviews. After Diesel attempted to claim during interviews for ''Film/{{F9}}'' that his behavior on ''Film/FastFive'' was to bring Johnson's performance up to his standards, Johnson announced he was leaving the series, though whether that refers to the franchise as a whole or excludes the Diesel-free ''Hobbs & Shaw'' films is unclear.

* HostilityOnTheSet: An infamous one between Creator/VinDiesel and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, sometimes memetically referred to as "[=#CandyAssGate=]" due to the latter's word choice in describing the former. The two largely refused to film scenes together in most of their shared films (resulting in scenes between the two rarely containing both their faces in the same shot, such as the hospital scene in ''Film/Furious7''), and routinely criticized each other (and not in an affectionate way) in interviews. After Diesel attempted to claim his behavior on ''Film/FastFive'' was to bring Johnson's performance up to his standards, Johnson announced he was leaving the series, though whether that refers to the franchise as a whole or excludes the Diesel-free ''Hobbs & Shaw'' films is unclear.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The early films were a loving revue of early-mid '00s extreme sports culture, especially tuner/car racing culture. Later films in the series (starting with the fourth) tend to be less obvious about it beyond the characters' choice of CoolCars, and seem to be more of an {{homage}} to the era. It may seem a bit bizarre that the original film's main conflict is over the theft of ''DVD players'', which mostly (but not completely) went out of style a decade later in the face of emerging next-gen media formats like Blu-Ray.

* HostilityOnTheSet: An infamous one between Creator/VinDiesel and Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, sometimes memetically referred to as "#CandyAssGate" due to the latter's word choice in describing the former. The two largely refused to film scenes together in most of their shared films (resulting in scenes between the two rarely containing both their faces in the same shot, such as the hospital scene in ''Film/Furious7''), and routinely criticized each other (and not in an affectionate way) in interviews. After Diesel attempted to claim his behavior on ''Film/FastFive'' was to bring Johnson's performance up to his standards, Johnson announced he was leaving the series, though whether that refers to the franchise as a whole or excludes the Diesel-free ''Hobbs & Shaw'' films is unclear.

** Cuban-American Dominic Toretto is played by Creator/VinDiesel, who is mixed and may or may not be Cuban himself. His sister, Mia, is played by Jordana Brewster, who is Brazilian-American and his brother Jakob, is played by Wrestling/JohnCena, who is Italian-American, not to mention his cousin Tony, who is the main protagonist of spinoff ''[[WesternAnimation/FastAndFuriousSpyRacers Spy Racers]]'', is voiced by Creator/TylerPosey, who is of mixed Mexican and Irish descent.

** Cuban-American Dominic Toretto is played by Creator/VinDiesel, who is mixed and may or may not be Cuban himself. His sister, Mia, is played by Jordana Brewster, who is Brazilian-American.

** ''Tokyo Drift'' is the biggest offender, for obvious reasons: Lucas Black (Sean) was 22, Zachary Ty Brian (Clay) was 23, Nikki Griffin (Clay's girlfriend Cindy) was 28, Nathalie Kelley (Neela) was 21, Bow Wow (Twinkie) was 19, Leonardo Nam (Takeshi's friend Morimoto) was 25, and Creator/BrianTee (Takeshi) was the worst at 29. Only Bow Wow was still technically a teenager out of the cast.

* ''Trivia/FastAndFurious9''

--> '''Sonic:''' I feel just like Creator/VinDiesel! It's all about family Tom!
* ReleaseDateChange: ''F9'' was scheduled to be released May 22, 2020 but pushed to April 2, 2021 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The new date was previously occupied by the tenth film in the franchise, which had yet to begin production when the change was made.

** Cuban-American Dominic Toretto is played by Creator/VinDiesel, who is mixed and may or may not be Cuban himself. His sister, Mia, is played by Jordana Brewster, who is a Panamanian-American of Brazilian and English descents.

** Brazilian Officer Elena Neves is played by Elsa Pataky, a Spaniard of partial Romanian descent.

** Cuban-American Dominic Toretto is played by Creator/VinDiesel, who is mixed and may or may not be Cuban himself. His sister, Mia, is played by Jordana Brewster, who is of Brazilian and English descents.

---> '''Sonic:''' I feel just like Creator/VinDiesel! It's all about family Tom!

* ''Trivia/FastAndFurious''

* ''Trivia/FuriousSeven''

* ''Trivia/FastAndFuriousSix''

* StuntCasting: One of the franchise's first selling points was the inclusion of known rappers in the cast, from Ja Rule in the first to Ludacris in the second and Lil' Bow Wow in the third - but now it looks to be subverted as Ludacris' staying power easily beats out all the others. ''Fast Five'' also dabble in this, adding Dwayne Johnson as a supporting (but important) character that eventually became one of the protagonists in later films.

!!Film-specific Trivia

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Entries in this franchise with their own Trivia pages:

* CastTheRunnerUp: Creator/JasonStatham was considered for OwneShaw before being cast as his brother Deckard.