![]() – a 75 foot long, 50 foot wide section of the fuselage completely finished up to a height of 25 to 30 feet, with rolling wheels. Special effects supervisor Joss Williams built three practical set-pieces that would be filmed on an RAF base at Bovingdon, Hertfordshire: “So you go, ‘How are we going to do that for real?’, and Justin comes along and says well we can’t get a real plane but we can build most of a real plane! So he’ll go to whatever lengths he can to shoot stuff in-camera to get stuff for real.” “That’s all…good…until you start looking at the previs and realize they’re trying to throw tanks through the air and have them jump and race alongside an aeroplane at 100 miles an hour,” notes visual effects supervisor David Vickery, from Double Negative, which handled effects for the Antonov crash. ![]() Like many of the action sequences in the film, director Justin Lin wanted to capture the stunt practically as much as possible. – Above: watch an exclusive breakdown of Dneg’s VFX for the Antonov crash, thanks to our media partner WIRED. At one point, Dominic (Vin Diesel) drives his car through the nose cone of the plane. In the film, the team tether the plane to their vehicles and drive into and out of a ramp in the rear of the aircraft, which finally ends up crashing on the runway. Perhaps the most audacious stunt in the movie, nay, the series, is the bringing down of an Antonov AN-225 as it attempts to take off. Plus we have a bonus interview with the film’s cinematographer Stephen Windon, ACS. We examine both the special and visual effects work behind them – from crashing a massive Russian cargo plane, to battling a tank, destroying a parkade and driving around city streets. Here’s a look at just four of the biggest. The stunts and action of Fast & Furious 6 may well be the biggest yet.
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