Going Pedal To The Metal With “F9” Stunt Coordinator Andy Gill

Any mention of the words “fast” and “furious” immediately brings to mind one of film’s most successful franchises. But for stunt coordinator Andy Gill, it’s another word beginning with “f” that makes these movies so special.

“Truthfully, it’s the family feeling,” says Gill during a recent Zoom interview. “Fast has become like a big family. I’ve been working with Spiro (Razatos), the second unit director, for 36 years. The people around us… probably 15 years.

Review Roundup: Director Justin Lin Takes “F9” Into Glorious Overdrive

Sometimes, the best thing you can do with a 20-year-old franchise is to know what exactly it is and take it as far as it can possibly go. For director Justin Lin, a Fast & Furious veteran, that pushing F9 into the literal stratosphere and beyond. Now that the reviews are pouring in for the 9th installment in the rubber-burning saga, we can report that Lin and his very game cast and crew have delivered an utterly bonkers spectacle.

Watch A Bunch of Cars Get Demolished in “F9” Car-Nage Featurette

There has never been a franchise in film history that’s wrecked as many cars in as many ways as Fast & Furious. This legacy of totaling every kind of automobile, truck, tractor-trailer and tank is on display in a new featurette for F9, the latest installment. It’s title, “Car-Nage” gets points for revving right at the pun and smashing it into it, Fast & Furious style.

It’s Diesel vs. Cena in Insane “F9” Trailer

Universal has just kicked it into ninth gear—the new F9 trailer is here. We’ve been waiting a long time for the ninth film in the Fast & Furious franchise, and the new trailer reacquaints us with everybody’s favorite outlaw family of gearheads. We’ve known for a while that Han (Sung Kang) would be returning, and we get some Han action in the trailer. But the main focus of the longest look yet at F9 is the mano-y-mano brawl that’s brewing between Dom (Vin Diesel) and his brother Jakob (John Cena).

“F9” Drops a Super-Charged Super Bowl Spot

Universal let off the brakes—just a little bit—to reveal a 30-second F9 spot during the Super Bowl. It turns out that this glimpse of Dom, Letty, Han (!!), and the gang’s next adventure was way more exciting than the entirety of the game itself. Go figure!

The spot reveals—well, affirms—that Han (Sung Kang) is back, and F9 represents a real family reunion in which just about everyone who’s mattered in recent Fast &