Schwalm shot a pile of cars on the street to enhance the chaos (it was also carefully arranged for safety purposes, of course). Gary Gray, stunt coordinator Andy Gill, and special effects supervisor J.D. Coupled with pyrotechnics and several extras running around the area, the ensuing explosion didn't need much digital help to become one of the most visually stunning sequences in the franchise.Īs if it weren't enough, Director F. The franchise has no issues using CG for scenes - and it was notably used for completing Paul Walker's scenes in Furious 7 - but it was kept to a minimum here.
Some of them were dropped from a crane that stood way higher than the parking garage. Every falling car was aimed at a particular target on the ground and was carefully timed to drop in a sequence that prevented it from obscuring the others. They then proceeded to release all the weight drops, causing the cars to drop off the edge and onto the motorcade below. Each car was placed on a ramp and tied to a weight drop that was set up to release the car with a slight delay in relation to the rest. The Fast & Furious series has destroyed lots of cars over its history and in this case, the production crew gathered several real cars - many of them high-end models - and carefully arranged them near the windows of various floors of a parking garage. The sequence looks incredibly realistic from every single one of its many angles - and that's because it is real.
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