Development In October 2017,
Universal Pictures announced a spin-off film in development centered around characters Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw, and set a release date of July 26, 2019, with
Chris Morgan returning to write the script.
Variety reported that
Shane Black was being considered to direct the film. In February 2018,
Deadpool 2 director
David Leitch entered talks to direct the film. In April 2018, Leitch was confirmed as the director for the film and added David Scheunemann as a production designer. In 2018, Neal Moritz, a primary producer of the
Fast and the Furious films, sued Universal City Studios for breach of an oral agreement. The lawsuit was confidentially settled in 2020.
Casting In July 2018,
Vanessa Kirby was cast in the film to play an
MI6 agent and Shaw's sister, along with
Idris Elba as the main villain in the film. In October 2018,
Eddie Marsan joined the cast of the film, and in November 2018,
Eiza González was added as well. In January 2019, Johnson revealed that his cousin and
professional wrestler Roman Reigns would appear in the film as Hobbs's brother. Additionally, he announced that
Cliff Curtis,
Josh Mauga, and
John Tui would portray other brothers of Hobbs.
Helen Mirren was also confirmed to be reprising her role from
The Fate of the Furious.
Filming Principal photography began on September 10, 2018, in
London, England.
Dwayne Johnson joined the production two weeks later, on September 24, 2018, after he had wrapped filming
Jungle Cruise. Most filming was done at
Shepperton Studios and
Leavesden Studios. In October, filming moved to
Glasgow, Scotland, to recreate London. Filming also took place in late 2018 at
Eggborough power station in
North Yorkshire, and in
Farnborough, Hampshire. The
Hawaiian island of
Kauai was used as a stand-in for
Samoa for the film's third act. Cinematographer
Jonathan Sela shot the film with
Arri Alexa SXT and
Alexa Mini digital cameras and Hawk Class-X
anamorphic lenses. Production officially wrapped on January 27, 2019.
Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects was hired to supply a
UH-60 Black Hawk (s/n 79-23354) in the film. Scroggins made modification to the UH-60 and worked with the art department to supply it with a digital cockpit panel.
Post-production The visual effects were provided by
DNEG,
Cantina Creative,
The Third Floor,
RISE FX and
Framestore, supervised by Mike Brazelton and Kyle McCulloch, and produced by Dan Glass. DNEG is the main vendor for this project, with a total VFX shots of around 1,000. They worked on the big action sequences in London, Chernobyl and a part of the climatic Samoan chase. The London chase sequence consists of blue screen environments and car interiors, with CGI reflections on the McLaren exterior. There are few head replacements and full CGI character doubles. For the latter, they were created and animated from reference photography of the main actors. The same method was applied for the McLaren and the Brixton bikes. Idris Elba was enhanced to give him super-human abilities. Motion graphics were used to make a sort of heads up display of data and stats called the Brixton vision, to help him in the fights. For the Chernobyl action sequence, the environments were made from Lidar scanning, texture reference of a decommissioned coal power plant used for the production shootings. Then, they extended parts of the facility and modified weather conditions. Drones were fully created and animated. Explosions were created too. Finally, they handled the Samoa chopper destruction. Framestore handled 264 VFX shots for the project, mostly the 3rd-act chase sequence. They photographed the Nā Pali Coast on the North Side of Kauai, Hawaii before and during the main shoot. Then, they used their photography to be photo scanned and transferred into a CGI version of the coastline. They had to fit the CGI environment to the shoot location. They also created CGI cliffs, CGI foliage and some scattered rocks on flatter areas or ledges. Finally for the creation of the environments, they used many reference plate shots for the blue screens. They also photographed, photo scanned, modeled and animated all the vehicles portrayed in that sequence, including the Peterbilt, the M37, the Ratrod and the Black Hawk. The latter was cyber scanned by ClearAngle. They adapted the CGI vehicles with the environment, including the lighting, tillable textures and painting scratches. Finally, they enhanced the explosions and car crashes with some debris, fire elements and craters.
Music In May 2019,
Film Music Reporter announced that
Tyler Bates would compose the film's score. The first single of the soundtrack is "Getting Started" written by Kyle Williams aka producer Willyecho (created through the series
Songland for Aloe Blacc), and performed by American singer-songwriter
Aloe Blacc and rapper
JID. Idris Elba himself has produced a track featuring
Cypress Hill's
B-Real titled "Even If I Die"; the
Hybrid remix of the track appears both in the film and during the end credits. The film's soundtrack also features numerous artists including
Logic,
Yungblud, A$ton Wyld, Ohana Bam, and
The Heavy.
Marketing The first poster was released on January 31, 2019. The first trailer was released on February 1, 2019, and a TV spot was aired during
Super Bowl LIII, on February 3, 2019. A second trailer was released on April 18, 2019. The final trailer was released on June 28, 2019. ==Release==