Furious 7

Furious 7
A close up of a car on a desert, with a group of people looking at it from a distance. Above the film's title, the tagline reads "VENGEANCE HITS HOME".
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJames Wan
Written byChris Morgan
Based onCharacters
by Gary Scott Thompson
Produced by
Starring
Cinematography
Edited by
Music byBrian Tyler
Production
companies
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Release dates
  • April 1, 2015 (2015-04-01) (TCL Chinese Theatre)
  • April 3, 2015 (2015-04-03) (United States)
Running time
137 minutes[2]
CountriesUnited States
China
LanguageEnglish
Budget$190–250 million
Box office$1.515 billion[3]

Furious 7 (also known as Fast & Furious 7) is a 2015 action film directed by James Wan and written by Chris Morgan. It is the sequel to Fast & Furious 6 (2013) and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) and the seventh installment in the Fast & Furious franchise. The film stars an ensemble cast including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker (in his final film role), Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Djimon Hounsou, Kurt Russell, and Jason Statham. In the film, Dominic Toretto, Brian O'Conner and their team are recruited by covert ops leader Mr. Nobody to prevent Mose Jakande, a terrorist, from obtaining a hacking program, but Deckard Shaw, a former special forces soldier seeking to avenge his comatose young brother Owen Shaw, puts the team in danger.

Plans for a seventh installment were first announced in February 2012 when Johnson stated that production on the film would begin after the completion of Fast & Furious 6. In April 2013, Wan, predominantly known for horror films, was announced to direct the film. Casting showed the returns of Diesel and Walker that same month. Principal photography began that September in Atlanta, but was indefinitely suspended in November after Walker died in a car crash; filming resumed in April 2014 and ended in July, with Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody standing-in to complete his remaining scenes, causing delay to its 2015 release date, with other filming locations including Los Angeles, Colorado, Abu Dhabi, and Tokyo. Brian Tyler, who had composed the score for Fast Five (2011), returned to compose the seventh installment. With an estimated production budget of up to $250 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made.

Furious 7 premiered at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles on April 1, 2015, and was released in the United States on April 3, by Universal Pictures. The film was a box office success and it received positive reviews from critics for its action sequences and emotional weight, particularly its emotional tribute to Walker, with many considering it to be one of the best films in the franchise. It grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide, making it the third-highest-grossing film of 2015 and the fourth-highest-grossing film of all time at the time of release. It also set a record for the second-highest opening weekend of its time, grossing $397.6 million worldwide. It was the highest-grossing film of 2015 internationally and became the highest-grossing film of the franchise in the first twelve days of its theatrical release. A sequel titled The Fate of the Furious was released in 2017.

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  2. ^ "Fast & Furious 7". British Board of Film Classification. Archived from the original on March 2, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  3. ^ "Furious 7". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Archived from the original on February 9, 2021. Retrieved February 9, 2021.