FILM · 2015 · USA
Fast & Furious 7
28 archived facts 6 topics 1 source Last reviewed Oct 2026
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- #001
After Paul Walker's death, body doubles, stunt doubles and archival footage were used to complete the film. Walker's brothers Caleb Walker and Cody Walker were among the doubles and also provided the voice for the character Brian O'Conner.
- #002
Some of Paul Walker's dialogue and footage were taken from previous Fast & Furious films. For example, Brian's conversation with Mia in the Dominican Republic garage is actually a scene cut from Fast Five (2011). Similarly, in the plane conversation between Dom and Brian, every frame of Walker was rotoscoped from a conversation with Dom about their fathers in the same film.
- #003
Following the tragic death of Paul Walker, who died in a car accident on November 30, 2013, production on the film was halted on December 1, 2013. Filming was underway in Atlanta and the film was scheduled for release on July 11, 2014. Director James Wan and Universal executives held a conference call to determine how to respectfully continue production in Walker's memory. Filming was nearly halfway done when Walker died. Although there were some thoughts of scrapping the film entirely, production eventually resumed after rewrites to address Walker's absence and give his character a fitting send-off.
- #004
The Toyota Supra Brian drives at the end of the film actually belonged to the late actor Paul Walker.
- #005
Jordana Brewster (Mia) had to shoot her scenes at the very end of filming because of her lead role in the cancelled television series Dallas (2012). Given that most of her scenes were with her on-screen husband Brian and that Paul Walker had already died by the time her scenes were shot, she stated this was extremely difficult; it required her to act in scenes where one of Paul's two brothers served as a stand-in or where he was added through computer graphics or footage from an earlier film.
- #006
The guardrail near where the heroes stop overlooking Los Angeles is the same road/parking lot where Brian first tested his Eclipse in the first film.
- #007
Because of the use of body doubles and CGI for Paul Walker, scenes with him alternate throughout the film, showing either him or his body doubles. The first scene featuring CGI Paul Walker occurs about fifteen minutes into the film.
- #008
More than 230 cars were destroyed during the filming of this film alone.
- #009
Just before the jump from the building at the Etihad Towers penthouse, Brian describes to Dom in detail the real-life car they are about to get into: a $3.4 million Lykan HyperSport, of which only seven were made (excluding the show cars used for the film). However, when they get into the car, Brian is represented by CGI because the final part of the scene was shot after Paul Walker's death.
- #010
The car Brian (Paul Walker) drives in the final scene as a send-off to his character is a white Toyota Supra. This is a nod to the first film, in which he also drove a Toyota Supra.
- #011
Jason Statham was first offered the role of Owen Shaw (played by Luke Evans) in Fast & Furious 6 (2013), but could not take it due to his commitments to Parker (2013) and Wild Card (2015). Statham and Vin Diesel had wanted to work together for some time, so Diesel offered him a cameo at the end of Fast & Furious 6 (2013) as a production courtesy and brought him into this film as Deckard Shaw (Owen's brother).
- #012
The majority of Dwayne Johnson's stunts were actually performed by his stand-in and cousin, Tanoai Reed.
- #013
This film is the second highest-grossing motion picture released by Universal Pictures in the studio's history.
- #014
The red car seen in the Etihad Tower scene is a W Motors Lykan Hypersport. W Motors is a Lebanese company that planned to build only seven Hypersports.
- #015
The final scene with Dom and Brian is a callback to the first film, in which Dom raced his Dodge Charger against Brian's Toyota Supra.
- #016
The final scene, in which Paul Walker's car leaves the main road and turns toward a ramp, recalls the missing man formation that military pilots fly when they lose a comrade.
- #017
Dwayne Johnson performs his wrestling finishing move, the "Rock Bottom," on Jason Statham. He had previously performed the move in The Rundown (2003).
- #018
The film includes numerous scenes of archive footage from The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006), connecting that installment's isolated storyline to the rest of the series.
- #019
The film's worldwide opening weekend gross of 384 million dollars was more than the 207,283,925 dollars The Fast and the Furious (2001) earned worldwide.
- #020
At 2 hours 17 minutes, this was the longest Fast & Furious film upon release, until F9: The Fast Saga (2021) surpassed it six years later at 2 hours 25 minutes.
- #021
This marks the third time Paul Walker used the same blue Nissan GTR since Fast Five (2011).
- #022
Gal Gadot initially reprised the role of Gisele and filmed scenes in which Gisele takes Letty to the hospital after Letty is injured in the explosion of Fenix's car in Fast & Furious (2009), but her scenes were cut. Despite receiving the highest billing, she appears only through archive footage and a photograph.
- #023
Aside from the shorts, the series contains only two voiceovers. Both are by Vin Diesel, one in The Fast and the Furious (2001) while driving on a dirt road and one at the end of this film while speaking of Brian (Paul Walker).
- #024
This film was announced before Fast & Furious 6 (2013) was released.
- #025
This is Tony Jaa's first English-speaking role in a film.
- #026
Before this film was released, Vin Diesel announced that there would be three more films after it.
- #027
Justin Lin did not return to direct this film. Because the studio wanted Furious 7 (2015) made on an accelerated schedule for a summer 2014 release, Lin would have had to begin pre-production on this film while doing post-production on Fast & Furious 6 (2013), and he felt this would affect the quality of the final product.
- #028
The Fast & Furious films have followed a non-linear timeline, but Furious 7 (2015) finally provided some clarity on when most of the films take place. Letty's gravestone, seen early in the film, shows her supposed year of "death" as 2009, the year Fast & Furious (2009) was actually released. Moreover, after Letty's funeral in Fast & Furious (2009), Mia tells Brian that five years have passed since he first met her, Dom and Letty, placing the events of the first film in 2004. Mia discovers she is pregnant early in Fast Five (2011), the only film in the series to do so, and the only film in the series that begins exactly where the previous one ended (Brian and Mia break Dom out of the prison bus), so the events likely spanned a long time. Mia gives birth in the opening sequence of Fast & Furious 6 (2013), but the rest of the film takes place later, when Brian and Mia's son Jack is about one year old. As a result, the film appears to take place about eighteen months later, probably in 2012. At the start of Furious 7 (2015), Jack had reached preschool age, or roughly three years old, placing the film around 2014 (the film's original release year, later changed after Paul Walker's death). This also means The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) takes place around 2013-2014, since Han's death (re-imprisoned) in that film occurs just before Deckard Shaw calls Dom and blows up the Toretto house. Finally, one of the first scenes references Dom's arrival in Tokyo at the end of "Tokyo Drift," an arrival whose purpose was to bring home the coffin of Han, killed by Shaw.
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