So the mods were just kind of what we consider appropriate for a background villain car. We have makeshift BMW M5s, the FJs, and Mini Coopers. So those cars were actually chosen by our production designer. The whole world's converging on Dom and Jakob. What was done to those?ĭennis: In that scene, story-wise, everybody's coming after 'em.
R&T: There's a scene with a gang of kitted-out Toyota FJ Cruisers. I love those cars and I have one now, a black '93 LX.
When I was a kid, probably in my early twenties, the first new car I ever bought was a 1992 Mustang LX, pretty much exactly like that but in black. I can't remember the exact brand name of the rack, but we did source that off of Amazon, I believe.
If the car has a rack on the top with a canoe, that would be props. There are certain things, like if a police car needs a police radio, the props department steps in with a radio. We basically built that entire car, but that roof rack was actually provided by the props department. What sort of rack did you use on that?ĭennis: Yeah, I thought that was very cool. R&T: Another car that stood out was the Fox body Mustang that John Cena drives. In my opinion, cinematically, it's just much more exciting to watch someone shifting gears than putting the car into drive. Obviously, we're not gonna convert every car, but we have done a few of them. One of the things I like to do is give the car a manual transmission. R&T: How do you decide what you want to do in terms of modifications? Do you have any go-to bits and pieces to swap around?ĭennis: My go-to on a newer car would be probably lowering the suspension a little bit, bigger wheels and tires, maybe some tinted windows. That's when I really started building and sourcing vehicles for the franchise. And then the same person who brought me on for that asked me about the sport of drifting which, at that point, I did not realize was going to be tied to another Fast & Furious movie. R&T: So you joined the franchise around 2 Fast 2 Furious?ĭennis: Yeah, I came at the end of that to prep some cars and move them to different events. We sat down with Dennis and picked his brain about his process, some of his favorite modifications and upgrades, and of course, his own cars. Enter Dennis McCarthy, the Picture Car Coordinator (the person responsible for deciding what cars we see on screen) for the franchise since 2006's The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift. Though the stunts and fight sequences have reached Mission: Impossible level, we are here for the cars. With this in mind, we wanted to talk to the person responsible for sourcing and preparing the vehicles for Fast X. Dennis McCarthy - Picture Car Coordinator for the Fast & Furious franchise IMDb
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