Fast Five trailer debuts

December 14, 2010 By Ryan Fleming

The fifth Fast and Furious movie has released its first official trailer. The film is due in theaters on April 29, 2011.

Earlier today on Vin Diesel’s Facebook page, for which he has a shockingly high 19.5 million fans, the actor posted the first official trailer for the upcoming fifth movie in the franchise, Fast Five.

The film takes place in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. After the events of the fourth movie, Fast & Furious, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) are forced to flee the country. Once they reach Brazil, the three assemble a crew of friends and drivers to go head to head with a corrupt businessman. But on their tail is the dogged and relentless federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson), who has sworn to bring them in, but soon discovers that he is not sure which side he is on. You can also probably expect a fair amount of driving and car chases, and probably some big explosions.

The film also brings back several faces familiar to the franchise, including Ludacris and Tyrese Gibson (from the second film, 2 Fast 2 Furious) Matt Schulze (Vince from the original The Fast and the Furious), and many others that have made an appearance throughout the course of the series. Even death can’t stop this crew from re-assembling, as Sung Kang’s (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Fast & Furious) character of Han appears to have pulled a Lazarus and risen from the dead.

A sixth movie in the series is also in the early stages of development.

Fast Five will be directed by Justin Lin (Fast & Furious, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift). It hits theaters on April 29, 2011.

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Annoyed at 12:02pm 15th December 2010 I don't see how people don't understand Fast and Furious 4 takes place before fast and furious tokyo drift and so Fast and Furious 5 Han would still be alive seeing as it follows after 4.
Get me a Delorian! at 4:53pm 14th December 2010 So, either the character of Han is back from the dead- maybe he was only wounded in the massive explosion that he was in the center of-, or this film takes places before the third film, which would mean that the continuity order goes 1,2,4,5,3. For an action based movie that appeals to the "'splosions are purdy" set (of which I am a member), that seems kinda ridiculously convoluted. I like the character of Han and the actor, but not enough for them to rewrite time for them. Alternatively, maybe Dom drives his GTO 88 miles an hour, goes back in time, makes sure Paul Walker's Mom and Dad hook up (even though the Mom keeps hitting on Dom), and on the way back he saves Han.