Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters That Supercharged the World

Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters That Supercharged the World - Hardcover

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Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters That Supercharged the World
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Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters That Supercharged the World - Hardcover

Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious, the Blockbusters That Supercharged the World - Hardcover

by Barry Hertz
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Book Overview

An exclusive look inside the surprising history and contentious future of Hollywood's most unlikely blockbuster--the Fast & Furious franchise--a series that uncannily anticipated the shifting currents of pop culture while changing the business of global entertainment at the same time.

What do Miami drug traffickers, bloodthirsty Yakuza warriors, Corona-soaked backyard BBQs, Dame Helen Mirren, and a duct-taped 1984 Pontiac Fiero-turned-rocket-fueled spaceship have in common? They are all essential elements of the ever-expanding, logic- and laws-of-physics-defying Fast & Furious universe: the most entertaining, outlandish, and secretly genius Hollywood creation that everyone has taken for granted - until now.

Through an escalating series of high-risk maneuvers - from synapse-stretching stunts to timeline-bending narratives to explosive PR wars between the biggest, baddest, baldest egos in showbiz - the Fast family (and it is a family above all else) has redefined the art and commerce of popcorn moviemaking. And the gang did it all while staring down the kind of monumental, soul-rattling challenges - the death of a star, the upheaval of an industry - that would have crushed the speed and spirit of any other filmmaking team.

An unauthorized journey into the makings of a cinematic saga unlike any other, Welcome to the Family exposes the stranger-than-fan-fiction journey of the franchise from the ground up. Through rigorous behind-the-scenes reporting and incisive cultural commentary, writer Barry Hertz's ride-or-die epic details every single twist and turn of Fast & Furious drama, a quarter mile at a time. By the end, you will believe a car can fly.
ISBN9781538771037
Author Barry Hertz
PublisherGrand Central Publishing
GenreArts
FormatHardcover
PublishedNovember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages448
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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