The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

[Brian in Mesa]

Justin Lin to Direct Fast and the Furious 3
Source: Mary
June 8, 2005

Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow) is set to direct Universal Pictures' The Fast and the Furious 3 (tentative title), according to Screen Daily.

Neal H Moritz, who produced the first two installments in the series -- The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious -- will again produce. Chris Morgan (Cellular) has written the script for the third film which will take place in Tokyo in the underground world of Japanese drift racing.

The story focuses on Shaun Boswell, a loner at school, whose only connection to the world is his passion for illegal street racing. To avoid jail time, he is sent to live in Japan with his uncle in the military in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. There he becomes involved in drift racing and unwittingly takes on DK, the Drift King, who has ties to the Yakuza.

The film will go into production in this fall in Asia and the U.S.

 

[Brian]

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Bow Wow & Lucas Black in Furious 3
Source: Zap2it
September 23, 2005

Roll Bounce star Bow Wow tells Zap2it that he'll star in Universal Pictures' Fast and Furious 3: Tokyo, the third installment in the franchise.

"Me and Lucas Black are actually starring in that movie," he says. "It's gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it's gonna be great."

Directed by Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow) and written by Chris Morgan (Cellular), the film is set in the sexy, underground world of Japanese drift racing where the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses ever seen.

"It starts filming in the first week of October," Bow Wow adds. "After [promoting 'Roll Bounce'] I go to Europe for a week and then I'm back over here for three and a half months. Then we're over in Tokyo and Japan for three and half weeks."

 

[thirty-two]

nooooooooooooooooooo!

 

[Yuma]

The first one sucked......

 

[Brian in Mesa]

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Release Date: June 16, 2006
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Justin Lin
Screenwriter: Chris Morgan
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (for reckless and illegal behavior involving teens, violence, language and sexual content)
Website: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Starring: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Nathalie Kelly

Plot Summary: From the producer of the worldwide blockbuster hits "The Fast and the Furious" and its sequel, "2 Fast 2 Furious," comes the latest installment of the adrenaline-inducing series built on speed-"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift". Set in the sexy and colorful underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses in the world.

Sean Boswell (Black) is an outsider who attempts to define himself as a hot-headed, underdog street racer. Although racing provides a temporary escape from an unhappy home and the superficial world around him, it has also made Sean unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Sean is sent to live with his gruff, estranged father, a career military-man stationed in Tokyo.

Now officially a gaijin (outsider), Sean feels even more shut out in a land of foreign customs and codes of honor. But it doesn't take long for him to find some action when a fellow American buddy, Twinkie (Bow Wow), introduces him to the underground world of drift racing. Sean's simple drag racing gets replaced by a rubber-burning, automotive art form-with an exhilarating balance of speeding and gliding through a heart-stopping course of hairpin turns and switchbacks.

On his first time out drifting, Sean unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," a local champ with ties to the Japanese crime machine Yakuza. Sean's loss comes at a high price tag when he's forced to work off the debt under the thumb of ex-pat, Han (Kang). Han soon welcomes Sean into this family of misfits and introduces him to the real principles of drifting. But when Sean falls for D.K.'s girlfriend, Neela (newcomer Kelley), an explosive series of events is set into motion, climaxing with an ultimate high stakes face off.

"The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift" is directed by Justin Lin ("Better Luck Tomorrow," "Annapolis") and written by Chris Morgan ("Cellular"), Kario Salem ("The Score") and Alfredo Botello. The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz ("XXX," "S.W.A.T.") and executive produced by Clayton Townsend ("The Skeleton Key," "The 40-Year-Old Virgin").

 

[jenna2891]

The first one sucked......

my god the change to the green smiley sucks.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Could someone please edit the thread title from The Fast and the Furious 3 to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Thanks.

 

[vince56]

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Release Date: June 16, 2006
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Justin Lin
Screenwriter: Chris Morgan
Genre: Action
MPAA Rating: CR-AP (for stupid directing and making this horrible film. Does anybody watch these movies really?)
Website: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Starring: Lucas Black, Bow Wow, Brian Tee, Sung Kang, Jason Tobin, Nathalie Kelly

Plot Summary: There is none. Just fast over-hyped ricers running sideways, tearing up their tires, making obscenely stupid noise that nobody likes to hear. A few crashes, some sneers from some post-puberty idiots, and for some reason we put some guns in the film. We're 'dark' like that.

Sounds like it'll suck.

 

[nathan]

I had a dentist appointment today at 8 so I went and saw this since I was awake. Seemed like most of the driving was done by stunt drivers and not CG. Plot was pretty standard for this type of movies

Thumb's up for me.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

Saw it and I gotta say it was pretty damn entertaining! I've never seen so many hot Japanese women and the lead lady was smokin!!!
Cars were cool and fast. Acting wasn't all that bad along with the story.

It was all I could do to not lay a few donuts down in the parking lot when the movie was over...

 

[Ryanwb]

I have to say that it irks me they say "a new style of racing"

Friggin drift racing has been around for years, it's not so prevelent in the USA because you need a rear-wheel drive car, but stilll.... Stupid movie writers

 

[nathan]

Chandler Mike Sucks!

 

[jenna2891]

seriously.

 

[PortlandCardFan]

I have to say that it irks me they say "a new style of racing"

Friggin drift racing has been around for years, it's not so prevelent in the USA because you need a rear-wheel drive car, but stilll.... Stupid movie writers

New Popular, or new to the states..

 

[NEZCardsfan]

Regarding Yuma's Sig: Oh man, the irony, that a certain poster would comment on that.

 

[Bada0Bing]

This was pretty bad. The first two weren't great, but at least the acting was decent. The main character in this one was unwatchable.