Fast and Furious has grown into an international action movie juggernaut, its humble beginning as a movie about street racers hijacking VCRs long forgotten. Recent sequels have seen Dom Toretto’s crew ripping through Abu Dhabi skyscrapers, blowing up half of London and bashing Rio De Janeiro businesses apart with a bludgeoning safe ripped from city police headquarters. They are vehicular disaster movies, turning urban streets into war zones. Fast 8 ’s April 14, 2017 release date will see the series hit the streets of New York City. And while New York has seen more than its fair portion of cinematic destruction, there are still a carload of NYC landmarks we’d love to see get bashed apart by the Fast and Furious crew.
After having a “family” dinner at New York institution T.G.I. Friday’s, Dom and his crew could remodel the lobby of Trump Tower. A few power over drifts through glass and gilt should do the trick.
Hell, redecorate Trump Palace while you’re at it.
One of the underlying themes of the Fast and Furious series is finding community and family in a society that has devalued and marginalized immense segments of its population. There’s a touch of the Robin Hood to the efforts of Dom’s crew in Fast Five (sure, they’re more fond of keeping the loot for themselves than redistributing, but still). The series is, in some small ways, a class warfare parable. So how about smashing a few cars through the penthouses at 432 Park Avenue?
Since they’re basically multimillion-dollar pied-a-terres and investment vehicles for the international elite, the building is nearly unoccupied most of the time anyway.
While Fast and Furious has traditionally focused on urban landscapes (the Azerbaijan chase in Furious 7 was a rare exception), why not take a nice Sunday drive through Central Park? Dare they rip up Shakespeare’s Garden or plow through Christopher Columbus and King Jagiello with a tank?
There’s going to be a lot of destruction in the new sequel, hopefully they’ll branch out beyond Times Square and Grand Central (still recovering from the 2012 Chitauri attacks). There are too many exciting possibilities to list. Car chases through Smorgasburg, SoHo, Film Forum, the New York Stock Exchange, Little Italy... bring it on. What other parts of New York would you like to see remodeled by the Fast 8 crew?
