Action "Triple Fast and the Furious": actors, roles, short story

"Fast and Furious" - one of the most popular film franchise of our time. A special place in this series of films is the tape "Triple Fast and the Furious": the actors of the third part of the militant completely changed, and the scene moved to the exotic scenery of the city of Tokyo. How did the audience perceive such dramatic changes? And how much did the film collect at the box office?

Creators and a short plot of the picture

"The Three Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" was filmed by Justin Lin. He also worked on 4, 5 and 6 parts of the franchise. Also Lin in 2016 acted as the director of the picture "Star Trek: Infinity", which raised $ 338 million at the box office.

The third part of "Forsage" seems to fall out of the general line of the franchise: completely changed the cast of actors, an independent story. Producers explain such changes with the desire to diversify the picture and attract additional viewers.

The experiment was not quite successful: at the box office the film collected only $ 158 million. For comparison, "Dual Fast and Furious" earned 236 million, and "Fast and the Furious" - 363 million.

The protagonist of the third part is the young racer Sean. His mother sends him to live in Tokyo, and there the young man joins in the art of drifting, and also makes new friends: Twinkie and Khan. During one of the night races, Sean smashes someone else's car. As compensation, he must work for some time on the leader of the local gang. So the character is involved in gang warfare. Trying to maneuver between dangerous situations, Sean slowly and confidently moves to his goal, and eventually becomes the King of Drift.

"The Fast and the Furious": Actors

The protagonist of the picture is Sean. His image was embodied on the screen by Lucas Black. The actor began his screen career at the age of 11 on the shooting of the film "War." Black's first partners in the set were Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood.

The next famous work in Lucas's filmography is a small role in the drama The Mississippi Ghosts. The film was nominated for an Oscar, and the main roles in it were played by Alec Baldwin and Whoopi Goldberg.

Then came the drama "Cold Mountain", "Marines" and, finally, the thriller "The Triple Fast and the Furious". Actors for the third part of the franchise were selected little-known. And although Lucas had successful projects in his record, he never played the leading roles. You can say, "Fast and the Furious" was a debut for the performer.

The character of Black Sean subsequently appeared in the seventh and eighth "Fast and the Furious". At the moment these pictures are the most famous works of the Hollywood artist in the cinema.

Bow Wow as Twinkie

In the thriller "Triple Fast and the Furious" actors Black and Bow Wow played friends. Twinkie, according to the story, brought Sean to the Tokyo crowd of riders and taught him the skill of drift.

Bow Wow is actually an American musician: he has already released 7 releases in the genre of rap / hip-hop. It is noteworthy that the first music album the performer recorded at the age of 13, and a year later this release was granted a platinum status.

After a while, Bow Wow decided not to stop there and try his hand at other activities. Since 2002, the musician has been shot in films. In his filmography includes the tapes "Family tree", "Lottery ticket", "Hurricane season" and many others. Also Bow Wow in combination is a designer of clothes and impresario.

Other artists

Lucas Black, more precisely his screen character in the thriller "The Triple Fast and the Furious", personally meets with Dominique Toretto and challenges him. This is the only episode in which one of the actors of the previous parts of "Fast and Furious" appears. And although the film ends here, in the seventh part it turns out that in the race, after all, the hero of Wine Diesel.

The leader of the gang of "unsuitable" was played by an American of Korean descent, Song Kang. His career in the movie Dream began with an episodic role in "Pearl Harbor". Then the actor took part in the shooting of several parts of "Fast and the Furious".

Also in the frame you can see Brian Tee, Natalie Kelly and Keiko Kitagawa.