Where to watch Fast Five (2011)

Trivia & production notes

• The Puerto Rican government offered nearly $11 million in tax incentives to convince the production to film there instead of Rio de Janeiro, with Puerto Rico standing in for the Brazilian city in the final film.
• Universal deliberately transformed the Fast and Furious franchise from street-racing films into heist movies with car chases, using Fast Five as the transitional film to broaden the series' appeal beyond car culture enthusiasts.
• Writer Chris Morgan conceived the idea of heisting a large safe during production of Fast Furious (2009), but shelved it because that film's premise didn't accommodate it, later incorporating the concept into Fast Five.
• The production employed a $125 million budget and used three film units working simultaneously to complete shooting in July and August 2010.
• The rooftop pursuit across favelas was filmed in the small Puerto Rican town of Naranjito, where actors and stunt doubles had to navigate slippery pathways while avoiding loose dogs, chickens, and other animals during a week-long shoot.
• A 420-foot cable-camera rig was deployed to capture the favela rooftop chase sequence with a fast-moving bird's-eye view, and actors jumped nearly 30 feet between buildings onto safety mats for the scene's conclusion.
• Production designer Peter Wenham altered the colors of more than 30 Puerto Rican buildings and transformed a defunct Atlanta train yard into an abandoned auto plant headquarters over several months of redesign work.
• The train heist sequence required the Moving Picture Company to complete around 240 visual effects shots, including a fully CGI train, bridge, canyon, and digital doubles of the main actors.
• The fight scene between Johnson's and Diesel's characters required several weeks of rehearsal and more than a week of filming as the actors and stunt doubles were written to be equally formidable, with both incurring minor injuries during production.
• The production contributed $27 million to the Puerto Rican community, employing 236 technicians, 13,145 extras, and generating 16,824 hotel room nights during filming.

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