How do you film 200 cars storming out of a warehouse with only a handful of stunt drivers? Simple. You cast privately owned vehicles in the scene and let the respective owners do the driving. At least, that’s how Craig Lieberman says filming of the infamous warehouse scene in 2 Fast 2 Furious went down. As the film’s technical advisor, Lieberman worked with director John Singleton and the rest of the crew to make this ambitious dream a reality.
Filmed at what’s today known as the Mana Wynwood Convention Center in Miami, Florida, the finished scene plays out in a fashion that’s as gaudy and entertaining as South Beach on Saturday night. And it was almost as chaotic to film as it looks, according to Lieberman.
In order to keep the hundreds of privately owned and drive cars in line, the 2 Fast 2 Furious crew relied on professionals to lead the throng of vehicles out of the warehouse along specially designated routes. The lead drivers weren’t in any old cars, either, but repainted vehicles from the original The Fast and The Furious film. Lieberman specifically calls out a handful of Mitsubishi Eclipses, Honda Civics, and Toyota MR2 Spyders that, save for their different hues, wear identical body kits to the hero cars in the original movie.
Not every clip from the warehouse scene relied on private individuals to play the role of stunt driver, though. For instance, the Dodge-supplied Ram pickup truck that crushes the hood of a sitting Miami police car was a coordinated stunt that required various cables to make happen.
Sure, 2 Fast 2 Furious is far from a great film, but after listening to Lieberman explain the coordination required to make the warehouse scene an on-screen success, we have to admit to having a newfound respect for the work that went into making the second movie in this long-running film franchise.
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Source: WORLD NEWS
