Fast & Furious 7 filming?

[Drache]

Supposedly this picture was taken from the set 

[Bob]

Is it photoshop? I don't see leaf springs in the back of the charger.

[Ghoste]

I thought they were switching to a Challenger this time?

[JB400]

From the articles I read, they filmed 6 and 7 at the same time.  7 is due out sometime next year I believe.

[tan top]

Is it photoshop? I don't see leaf springs in the back of the charger.

looks sort of toyish    anything is possible with that mob

[Dino]

7 huh?  Guess I'd have about 4 more to see until then...if I could take the torture.

[nvrbdn]

i would think there would be more pictures of that thing lurking around somewhere if its real. time for the super sleuths to dig up the evidence

[Ghoste]

I'm guessing no trunk lid.

[JB400]

Is anybody in Colorado?  They're filming at Pikes Peak right now.

http://www.ourcoloradonews.com/news/fast-furious-coming-to-pikes-peak-today/article_eb258c0e-19a6-11e3-9be0-0019bb2963f4.html

[myk]

Franchise ended for me with the 5th movie.  I've been a staunch supporter of the movies but I won't even bother to buy #6.  Gotta know when to quit, guys...

[Dino]

Franchise ended for me with the 5th movie.  I've been a staunch supporter of the movies but I won't even bother to buy #6.  Gotta know when to quit, guys...

About 10 minutes into the first one?   

[myk]

Franchise ended for me with the 5th movie.  I've been a staunch supporter of the movies but I won't even bother to buy #6.  Gotta know when to quit, guys...

About 10 minutes into the first one?   

Lol I know, right.  That first 10 minutes isn't easy on the soul...

[bill440rt]

Franchise ended for me with the 5th movie.  I've been a staunch supporter of the movies but I won't even bother to buy #6.  Gotta know when to quit, guys...

About 10 minutes into the first one?   

[HPP]

Yes, they are filming on the Peak;
http://www.firstshowing.net/2013/fast-furious-7-filming-action-scene-on-pikes-peak-next-month/
http://www.krdo.com/news/fast-money-on-pikes-peak/-/417220/21786016/-/e0o86t/-/index.html

It would take considerable effort to get any pictures as there is only one road up and they have it closed at the bottom, so no prying cameras  are floating around. You still have access to the mountain via the Barr trail (hiking that starts at 6500' and tops out at the summit of 14110') or the cog railway. Drawback to these two methods is they purposely do not parallel the highway, so you wont see any filming unless you take significant detours. Walking around at that altitude aint easy.

no doubt I'm sure some photos from crew members, grips, car wranglers, or other interested parties will slip out along the way, such as the one above.

BTW, they estimate the economic impact of filming here to be worth $120k a day. While that does not include the film budget, assuming the film company even spends $10,000 a day filming, it is easy to see how Hollyweird is willing to trash a $30k restored Charger for a "simple" movie scene. Its peanuts in the budget of things and probably costs less than their catering bill for a location shoot.

[Ghoste]

Ain't that the sad truth.

[Mike DC]

BTW, they estimate the economic impact of filming here to be worth $120k a day. While that does not include the film budget, assuming the film company even spends $10,000 a day filming, it is easy to see how Hollyweird is willing to trash a $30k restored Charger for a "simple" movie scene. Its peanuts in the budget of things and probably costs less than their catering bill for a location shoot.

Exactly.  That's something that very few outsiders really seem to understand about that business.  The price of some bondo'd up stunt cars is NOTHING on the scale of a $200,000,000 movie.




As for F&F #6 and #7 being filmed back-to-back, that early plan was later abandoned.  The director of #3-6 bowed out after the end of the last one.  

[Baldwinvette77]

the 7th movie has a new director, so anything is possible, but i wouldn't bet any money on that actually being a picture of the set, theres thousands of fake/fanmade "set photos", trailers, posters, etc.

oh... btw, you do realize 9gag.com (whats written on that photo) is... um .. to keep it simple is a website of practical jokes, trolling, and other internet BS 

[Mike DC]

I wouldn't be surprised if that picture was a legit F&F#7 photo.  


That's a strange pairing of vehicles on a trailer in a rural area of Pike's peak.  

And it's a strange way to build a Charger.  Who does that in the real world?  Once in a while we see a Charger unibody that was welded onto a truck chassis in the 1980s.  But that is not what's in the picture.  That's all wheels & tires & suspension lifting.  It looks like a more modern build.


Those cars being Hollywood props in a new F&F movie makes at least as much sense as anything else I can think of.  

[bill440rt]

MCG recently did an article about a black resto-mod '70 Cuda AAR with a Hemi as the new "hero" car. 

[SRT-440]

MCG recently did an article about a black resto-mod '70 Cuda AAR with a Hemi as the new "hero" car. 

There was one in the drive way at the end of #6...maybe that will be the vin-mobile in #7. 

[HPP]

Its possible its a photoshop job and yes, 9gag is a jokester site, but there is enough detail in that photo to be legit. That is one of the switchbacks on the Peak. The shadows on the trees do carry up onto the trailer and cars, so if it is a chop, its a very well executed one.

FWIW, this is getting semi regular local news coverage. To date, I haven't seen any news footage of activities that involved open transport trailers like that. Everything that the local media has captured has been in enclosed tractor trailer rigs. That isn't to say that once on the mountain they don't use open bed trailers, but its not like we have seen an ongoing parade of movie cars being pulled through town.

BTW, if you haven't guessed, I live in Colorado Springs, right at the foot of Pikes Peak.

[1974dodgecharger]

MCG recently did an article about a black resto-mod '70 Cuda AAR with a Hemi as the new "hero" car. 

There was one in the drive way at the end of #6...maybe that will be the vin-mobile in #7. 

wow, didnt notice that...

[67Charger440]

Yes, it is real.  I sold them a rusted shell (for a very healthy price) that they were going to cut and make a 4x4, like they had already done to a dozen or so. Tube frame, LS&, 9" rear, etc.

I know through another member a gentleman who sold them 4.

[GL#10]

Found this online ,  you see the 4wd black charger in it


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBTox2Dg5n8&feature=youtu.be&a

[Mike DC]

Another one of those clips has what looks like several vehicles on wire rigs.  Probably fiberglass shells.  This doesn't bode well for the realism of the action.

[Ghoste]

As opposed to the realism of a car getting tire smoke during a wheelie?  It is in real trouble then.

[Mike DC]

As opposed to the realism of a car getting tire smoke during a wheelie?  It is in real trouble then

Yeah, true dat.


Or is it? 

I think a wheelie could probably produce tire smoke if the vehicle power & physics were tipped far enough in favor of it.  Think about it - plenty of cars can spin the tires, produce smoke, and still move themselves forward at the same time.  They won't move forward nearly as fast as the wheels are turning, but they can move. 

Slipping tires and evidence of traction are a trade-off but they are not mutually exclusive.   

We only think of a wheelie being mutually exclusive with tire smoke because even the best wheelstanding cars struggle to do a wheelie. 

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I'm surprised about the hanging cars in the video though.  Most anything that involves several cars/trucks being wire-rigged across a big area is probably more practical to do with CGI these days.  They usually still end up doing a bunch of CGI tweaks (wire removal, etc) on that kind of footage anyway.   


Maybe they are just too scared to use any significant CGI after those tunnel scenes in the 4th movie.  In #4 they actually did all those car shots using real cars in action, and only CGI'd the underground tunnel set around them.  But it still came out looking so fake that the whole scene might as well have been footage from a video game as far as the audience was concerned. 
 

[Baldwinvette77]

As opposed to the realism of a car getting tire smoke during a wheelie?  It is in real trouble then.

i've seen some old racing videos of super light dragsters doing wheelies and creating tire smoke, but never a 4000lbs charger 

[Dino]

As opposed to the realism of a car getting tire smoke during a wheelie?  It is in real trouble then.

i've seen some old racing videos of super light dragsters doing wheelies and creating tire smoke, but never a 4000lbs charger  

Well that's because you haven't yet seen Plastic & Ridiculous part 7 my friend.  

[Baldwinvette77]

well im actually kinda interested in seeing why Dominic Torreto felt it was necessary to cut up a charger and go baja racing with it, kinda reminds me of this

http://www.streetlegaltv.com/news/james-garners-baja-olds-442-back-in-action/

[Mike DC]

For all we know it might not even be Dom's car this time.  

In FF#4 they killed it near the end of the movie but they showed it revived a few minutes later as the credits rolled.  But going into #7, the Charger last died 1.5 movies ago with no suggestions of it ever coming back since then.  Dom has been shown with three hot Mopars since then, two of them muscle-era, and none were that '70 Charger.

The only other time the '70 Charger stayed dead for so long was after the 1st movie.  That was when Vinnie was out of the franchise and the producers didn't realize how iconic that car was.

[1974dodgecharger]

For all we know it might not even be Dom's car this time.  

In FF#4 they killed it near the end of the movie but they showed it revived a few minutes later as the credits rolled.  But going into #7, the Charger last died 1.5 movies ago with no suggestions of it ever coming back since then.  Dom has been shown with three hot Mopars since then, two of them muscle-era, and none were that '70 Charger.

The only other time the '70 Charger stayed dead for so long was after the 1st movie.  That was when Vinnie was out of the franchise and the producers didn't realize how iconic that car was.

vin was only out after the first one because he 'believed' at the time there was no future after the first one that he did not like the movie he 'LOVED' riddick and TRIPLE XXX at the time and believed those two movies would make a superstar, but it did not happen.  He realized he could make more money out of the FandF series and use the money he makes from those and put it towards riddick and triple XXX. 

[Mike DC]

Leaving after #1 seemed like a smart move for Vin at the time.  NOBODY saw any decent future for the F&F series in the aftermath of the first one.  There was a feeling in the air that Vin was a bigger star than the F&F franchise deserved and they had just lucked into getting him on his way up in the first movie.

The fact that they've stretched the F&F thing into so many (decent big) movies completely defies conventional Hollywood logic about developing a franchise.  

Ironically, if Vin & Paul Walker had never left, they would probably have worn the franchise out with a couple of quick/bad sequels before it had time to develop into something with more of a future.  When the original cast members started leaving it forced the producers to broaden the cast, locations, storyline, tone, etc.  The original cast's return several movies later made the public (and the studio money lenders) give the franchise another shot once everyone was over the import car thing.        

                           

[1974dodgecharger]

Mike,

not really the movie made tons of money off the first one even before it was out of the theatre they planned a 2nd one already.  It cost only 40 million to make at the time and it grossed I think over 300 million off the bat.  It was a surprise movie of the summer.  It was just personal reasons Vin did not want to come back....but money brough him back.

[tcs69rt]

You guys are correct. The actors filmed up on the peak and then the stunt team only, filmed up on my friends ranch here in Colorado. They were not allowed off road ruining the national forest. They used the ranch roads for that. I took my 69 Charger RT to the set and took pics of the cars with mine. I was lucky enough to meet the directors and drivers. They asked that I hold off posting pics on this forum until the trailer for the movie comes out.....

[1974dodgecharger]

You guys are correct. The actors filmed up on the peak and then the stunt team only, filmed up on my friends ranch here in Colorado. They were not allowed off road ruining the national forest. They used the ranch roads for that. I took my 69 Charger RT to the set and took pics of the cars with mine. I was lucky enough to meet the directors and drivers. They asked that I hold off posting pics on this forum until the trailer for the movie comes out.....

Wow dude thats awesome....hope u took lots of pics....

[hatersaurusrex]

Is it photoshop? I don't see leaf springs in the back of the charger.

From the pics on the other thread, the axles appear to be 8 lug, meaning they were swapped in and probably have a hack job drag link type setup on them.   Interestingly the fronts also appear to be 8 lug too, so... 4x4 perhaps?

[tcs69rt]

Yes and the windows are plexi-glass. The frames are made for 4x4 and the axles did not look like Mopar to me. There is no vin # on these cars.    TC

[HPP]

Somebody beat you to it.

Pics from on top of Monarch Pass. Ski are is visible in the background.

http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=Test&Number=7885037&Searchpage=1&Main=7882709&Words=furious&topic=&Search=true#Post7885037

[JB400]

 

[tcs69rt]

My pics are of the cars on a wire. Also cars loaded up on flatbeds with mine parked beside them while we were saying goodbye to all the stunt drivers and set crews. I will post them when the movie trailer comes out. We were told that the 30 days spent here was for only 3 minutes of film footage.

[Mike DC]

    
Do you have any sense of why they were flying cars on wires?  



Hollywood has always ignored the laws of physics.  But I'm curious as to what made them think wire rigging was their best option for filming some off-roading cars in a "Furious" movie.  

It's a lot better to just launch cars off ramps if they want some brief jumping or crashing shots.  It's cheaper, faster, more realistic, etc.  And the final price of all that wire rig shooting would have bought plenty of CGI shots.