Hobbs & Shaw
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (also known simply as Hobbs & Shaw) is a 2019 American action comedy film directed by David Leitch and written by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce, from a story by Morgan. It is a spin-off of the Fast & Furious franchise set after the events of 2017's The Fate of the Furious. The film sees Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham reprise their roles from the main series as Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw, respectively, and also stars Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Eiza González, Cliff Curtis, and Helen Mirren. The plot follows the unlikely pairing of the titular characters as they team up with Shaw's sister (Kirby) to battle a cybernetically-enhanced terrorist (Elba) threatening the world with a deadly virus.
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Directed by | David Leitch |
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Story by | Chris Morgan |
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Music by | Tyler Bates |
Cinematography | Jonathan Sela |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 137 minutes[2] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $200 million[2] |
Box office | $759.9 million[2][3] |
Series star and producer Vin Diesel first said in 2015 that possible spin-offs were in early development, and Hobbs & Shaw was officially announced in October 2017. Leitch signed on to direct in April 2018, and Kirby and Elba both joined the cast that July. Filming began in September and lasted through January 2019, mostly taking place in London and Glasgow.
Hobbs & Shaw premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on July 13, 2019, was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 2019 by Universal Pictures and grossed over $759 million worldwide.
Plot
In London, Hattie Shaw and her team of MI6 agents attempt to retrieve a programmable supervirus dubbed "Snowflake" from techno-terrorist organization Eteon. Brixton Lore, an Eteon operative with cybernetic implants that allow him to perform superhuman feats, arrives and kills all the agents except Hattie, who injects the only dose of Snowflake into herself before escaping. Brixton frames Hattie for killing her team and stealing Snowflake, forcing her to go on the run.
Shortly after the events of The Fate of the Furious, Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw are both informed of the missing virus and are reluctantly recruited to work together to track it down. After a brief meeting at a CIA black site at Leadenhall Building, Deckard goes to Hattie's apartment for information, only to get attacked by Eteon operatives, while Hobbs manages to find Hattie; after a brief scuffle, he brings her to the CIA office, as Deckard then arrives and informs Hobbs that Hattie is actually his sister. The office is attacked, and Hattie is taken by Brixton, whom Deckard recognizes as an old colleague-turned-enemy he'd previously shot and supposedly killed. Hobbs and Deckard pursue and rescue Hattie, and during an ensuing car chase in a McLaren 720S, manage to escape from Brixton, who crashes into a double-decker bus. However, Brixton frames all three as traitors via Eteon's control of global news media.
The three locate Professor Andreiko, who explains that he created Snowflake to efficiently deliver vaccines, who informs them that to prevent Eteon from using the supervirus to eradicate humanity, Hattie, while the virus is still dormant, must either be cremated or have the virus removed with a specialized extraction device, which is located in Eteon's special facility in Chernobyl, Ukraine. After flying undercover to Moscow and rendezvousing with Deckard's former flame Margarita to rearm, the three infiltrate the facility. Despite setbacks, including being captured and tortured by Brixton who actually tries to turn them, they manage to retrieve the extraction device before escaping and destroying the facility; however, Andreiko is killed, and the device is damaged during their escape.
Hobbs takes the trio to his childhood home in Samoa to visit his estranged brother Jonah, a talented mechanic, to get help repairing the device and lay low before confronting Brixton again. Hobbs has a tense reunion with his family, but Jonah is eventually persuaded to help them by their mother. The makeshift battalion prepares for Eteon's arrival, setting up a variety of traps around the island. Jonah successfully repairs the device and starts the virus extraction, just as Brixton and his army arrive. In the ensuing battle, all of Brixton's soldiers are defeated. Brixton retakes Hattie via helicopter; however, Hobbs, Deckard, and the Samoans bring the aircraft down. Working together, Hobbs and Deckard defeat Brixton, who is remotely terminated afterward by Eteon's never-seen director. The director sends a message claiming to know Hobbs and intending to persuade him and the Shaw siblings, while they promise to find the director; the group then celebrates their victory.
In mid- and post-credits scenes, Hobbs brings his daughter to meet their extended family in Samoa; Deckard and Hattie are implied to bust their mother out of prison; and Hobbs receives a call from his partner, Locke, informing him that he had broken into a facility and discovered another virus worse than the Snowflake virus. Hobbs also secretly has the London police set on Deckard in retaliation for a prank during the trip to Moscow.
Cast
- Dwayne Johnson as Luke Hobbs, a DSS agent assigned by the CIA to work with Shaw towards stopping Snowflake, in spite of their disdain for each other.
- Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, a mercenary formerly with British Special Forces and MI6 and Hattie's brother, who remains at odds with Hobbs, but joins forces with him to protect Hattie. He owns a McLaren 720S.
- Idris Elba as Brixton Lore, a cyber-genetically enhanced terrorist working for Eteon and former MI6 field agent who has a history with Deckard.
- Vanessa Kirby as Hattie Shaw, an MI6 field agent and the sister of Deckard, who is being hunted by Brixton.
- Eiza González as Margarita / Madame M, a high-profile thief, friend and former lover of Deckard.
- Cliff Curtis as Jonah Hobbs, Luke's estranged eldest brother, a mechanic and the computer genius of the family.
- Helen Mirren as Magdalene "Queenie" Shaw, a criminal mastermind and the mother of Deckard and Hattie.
- Joe "Roman Reigns" Anoa'i as Mateo Hobbs, Luke's brother.
- Eddie Marsan as Professor Andreiko, a two-time Nobel Prize-winning scientist who created the Snowflake virus.
- Eliana Su'a as Sam Hobbs, Luke's daughter.
- John Tui as Kal Hobbs, Luke's brother.
In addition, Lori Pelenise Tuisano portrays Sefina Hobbs, the mother of Luke Hobbs and matriarch of the Hobbs family while Josh Mauga portrays as Timo Hobbs, Luke's brother. Rob Delaney appears as CIA agent Loeb while the film's director David Leitch makes a cameo appearance as a eteon helicopter pilot. Ryan Reynolds and Kevin Hart make uncredited appearances as CIA agent Victor Locke and Air Marshal Dinkley.[4][5] The Eteon Director, a role that Keanu Reeves was in negotiations for, does not physically appear in the film, but is also voiced by Reynolds under the pseudonym "Champ Nightingale".[6][7]
Production
Development
In November 2015, Vin Diesel announced in an interview with Variety that potential spin-offs for the Fast & Furious series were in the early stages of development.[8] In October 2017, Universal Pictures announced a spin-off film centered around characters Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw, and set a release date of July 26, 2019, with Chris Morgan returning to write the script.[9] Variety reported that Shane Black was being considered to direct the film.[10] In February 2018, Deadpool 2 director David Leitch entered talks to direct the film.[11] In April 2018, Leitch was confirmed as the director for the film and added David Scheunemann as a production designer.[12][13]
Casting
In July 2018, Vanessa Kirby was cast in the film to play an MI6 agent and Shaw's sister, along with Idris Elba as the main villain in the film.[14][15] In October 2018, Eddie Marsan joined the cast of the film,[16] and in November 2018, Eiza Gonzalez was added as well.[17] In January 2019, Johnson revealed that his cousin and professional wrestler Roman Reigns would appear in the film as Hobbs's brother.[18] Additionally, he announced that Cliff Curtis, Josh Mauga, and John Tui would portray other brothers of Hobbs.[19] Helen Mirren was also confirmed to be reprising her role from The Fate of the Furious.[20]
Filming
Principal photography began on September 10, 2018, in London, England.[21][22] Dwayne Johnson joined the production two weeks later, on September 24, 2018, after he had wrapped filming Jungle Cruise.[23] Most filming was done at Shepperton Studios and Leavesden Studios. In October, filming moved to Glasgow, Scotland, to recreate London.[24] Filming also took place in late 2018 at Eggborough power station in North Yorkshire,[25] and in Farnborough, Hampshire. The Hawaiian island of Kaua'i was used as a stand-in for Samoa for the film's third act.[26] Cinematographer Jonathan Sela shot the film with Arri Alexa SXT and Alexa Mini digital cameras[27] and Hawk Class-X anamorphic lenses.[28] Production officially wrapped on January 27, 2019.[29] Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects was hired to supply a UH-60 Black Hawk (s/n 79-23354) in the film. Scroggins made modification to the UH-60 and worked with the art department to supply it with a digital cockpit panel.[30]
Post-production
The visual effects were provided by DNEG, Cantina Creative, The Third Floor, RISE FX and Framestore, supervised by Mike Brazelton and Kyle McCulloch, and produced by Dan Glass.[31] DNEG is the main vendor for this project, with a total VFX shots of around 1,000. They worked on the big action sequences in London, Chernobyl and a part of the climatic Samoan chase. The London chase sequence consists on blue screens environment and car interior, with CGI reflexions to the McLaren exterior. They are few head replacements and full CGI character doubles. For the latter, they were created and animated from reference photography of the main actors. The same method was applied for the McLaren and the Brixton bikes. Idris Elba was enhanced to give him super-human abilities. Motion graphics was used to make a sort of heads up display of data and stats called the Brixton vision, to help him on the fights. For the Chernobyl action sequence, the environments was made from Lidar scanning, texture reference of a decommissioned coal power plant used for the production shootings. Then, they extended parts of the facility and modify weather conditions. Drones were fully created and animated. Explosions was created too. Finally, they handled the Samoa chopper destruction.
Framestore handled 264 VFX shots for the project, mostly the 3rd-act chase sequence. They photographed the Nā Pali Coast on the North Side of Kauai, Hawaii before and during the main shoot. Then, they used their photography to be photo scanned and transferred into a CGI version of the coastline. They had to fit the CGI environment to the shoot location. They also created CGI cliffs, CGI foliage and some scattered rocks on flatter areas or ledges. Finally for the creation of the environments, they used many reference plate shots for the blue screens. They also photographed, photo scanned, modeled and animated all the vehicles portrayed in that sequence, including the Peterbilt, the M37, the Ratrod and the Black Hawk. The latter was cyber scanned by ClearAngle. They adapted the CGI vehicles with the environment, including the lighting, tillable textures and painting scratches. Finally, they enhanced the explosions and car crashes with some debris, fire elements and craters.
Music
In May 2019, Film Music Reporter announced that Tyler Bates would compose the film's score.[32] The first single of the soundtrack is "Getting Started" written by Kyle Williams aka producer Willyecho (created through the series Songland for Aloe Blacc), and performed by American singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc and rapper JID. Idris Elba himself has produced a track featuring Cypress Hill's B-Real titled "Even If I Die"; the Hybrid remix of the track appears both in the film and during the end credits. The film's soundtrack also features numerous artists including Logic, Yungblud, A$ton Wyld, Ohana Bam, The Heavy, and Wale.
Marketing
The first poster was released on January 31, 2019.[33] The first trailer was released on February 1, 2019, and a TV spot was aired during Super Bowl LIII, on February 3, 2019.[34] A second trailer was released on April 18, 2019. The final trailer was released on June 28, 2019.[35]
Release
The film had its premiere at the Dolby Theatre in the Hollywood district of Los Angeles, California on July 13, 2019.[36] The film was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 2019,[37] after being moved from its previous date of July 26, 2019.[38] The film began international rollout on July 31, 2019, and was released in China on August 23, 2019.[39] The release is in 2D, Dolby Cinema, and IMAX. A RealD 3D conversion for the film was originally planned to release but was later cancelled. However, the planned conversion was done by Stereo D.
Lawsuit
In October 2018, Fast & Furious producer Neal H. Moritz filed a lawsuit against Universal Pictures for breach of oral contract and committing promissory fraud, after the distributor removed him as lead producer on Hobbs & Shaw. In May 2019, it was revealed that Universal had dropped Moritz from all future Fast & Furious installments.[40] His lawsuit was settled in September 2020.[41]
Home media
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw was released on Digital HD on October 15, 2019, and on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K Ultra HD on November 5, 2019.[42]
Reception
Box office
Hobbs & Shaw grossed $174 million in the United States and Canada, and $586.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $760.6 million.[2][3] Deadline Hollywood calculated the net profit of the film to be $84 million, when factoring together all expenses and revenues.[43]
In the United States and Canada, the film was projected to gross $60–65 million from 4,253 theaters in its opening weekend, while some insiders predicted it could exceed $70 million.[44][45] The film made $23.7 million on its first day, including $5.8 million from Thursday night previews, the highest amount for both Johnson and Statham outside the main Fast & Furious series. It went on to debut to $60 million over the weekend, finishing first at the box office.[46] Similar to the main Fast & Furious films, Hobbs & Shaw had a diverse audience, with audience demographics being 40% Caucasian, 27% Hispanic, 20% African American and 13% Asian.[47] The film dropped 58% in its second weekend to $25.3 million, remaining in first,[48][49] before Good Boys replaced it in the third week.[50]
In other territories, the film was projected to open to around $125 million from 54 countries, for a worldwide debut of $195 million.[44] The film made $24.9 million from its first two days of international release.[51] In its Chinese opening weekend the film made $102 million, grossing below projections but nevertheless being the second highest-grossing weekend of 2019 behind Avengers: Endgame.
Critical response
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 67% based on 337 reviews and an average rating of 6.11/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "Hobbs & Shaw doesn't rev as high as the franchise's best installments, but gets decent mileage out of its well-matched stars and over-the-top action sequences."[52] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 60 out of 100, based on 54 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[53] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A–" on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an average four out of five stars.[47]
Writing for Variety, Peter Debruge gave the film a positive review, with the summary, "Fan favorites Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham milk the friction between their characters while teaming up to save the world in this gratuitously over-the-top spinoff."[54] Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a "B–" and stated, "Strip away the meandering exposition and Hobbs & Shaw is an old-school screwball comedy that just happens to feature two major action stars."[55]
Conversely, the Chicago Sun-Times's Richard Roeper gave the film 1.5 out of 4 stars, writing, "In case of bad-movie emergency, break glass. Over the two-hour-plus running time of the painfully long, exceedingly tedious, consistently unimaginative and quite dopey Hobbs & Shaw, I counted some 13 instances in which humans and/or vehicles went crashing through panes of glass."[56]
Accolades
Award | Category | Recipient | Result |
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Golden Trailer Awards | Best Summer Blockbuster | Nominated | |
Best Action TV Spot | Nominated | ||
Best Summer Blockbuster Poster | Nominated | ||
People's Choice Awards | Favorite Action Movie of 2019 | Nominated | |
Favorite Male Movie Star of 2019 | Dwayne Johnson | Nominated |
Sequel
In November 2019, producer Hiram Garcia confirmed that all creatives involved have intentions in developing a sequel, with conversations regarding the project ongoing.[57] By March 2020, Johnson confirmed that a sequel was in development, though a screenwriter and director had not yet been hired.[58] Later that month, he announced that Chris Morgan was hired as screenwriter, with various new characters written to be introduced in the sequel. The production is under development with Seven Bucks Productions co-producing the film with Johnson and Hiram Garcia returning in their positions as producers.[59]
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