As far as preparations go, it could have gone a lot better for Fast 10 director Louis Leterrier. Having been parachuted into the project aft🌌er the sudden departure of Justin Lin, he found himself with no prep time and, crucially, no location for the movie’s third act set-piece.

Instead of the planned ending, Leterri✃er and his scouting team had to resort to unconventional methods to find a new location for Dom and his Fast family to speed through.

"Because I had no prep and literally arrived in London, they told me th👍ey lost the location in Montenegro. It was a very different location to what we eventually found. We sent scouts all over the world," Leterrier told GamesRadar+.

"We found a freeway and then a quarry next to it, then a bridge. Because I could not stop the shoot and prep something else, I had to do it all on Google Maps at night after a long day of shooting and editing," the director explained. "Just goin🌳g in and doing an overview, zooming in, going 3D view, then creating the ac💦tion sequence [in the movie]. You know in Google Maps when you walk, the Street View? I did it like that, that little guy going there."

Then, they struck gold, finding a dam right next door at the Portuguese location – featured iꩲn Dr. Zhivago, no less.

"It’s so cinematic, the most beautiful thing. I could have shot an entire movie there. I said, ‘yes, that’♑s it’, that’s our set piece, that’s the exclamation point at the end. Luckily, the studio said ‘go for it. This is crazy, but let’s just go.’"

It also sparked a brainwave for Leterrier, who harkened back to his childhood playing🐈 with toy cars as inspiration for – mild spoilers – one of Dom’s biggest daredevil acts, driving directly down the dam.

"I had to think about what my fantasies as a child were, playi𝔉ng with my cars. What did I want to do? I remember, in my bathtub, I used to dr💦ive a car down the side of my bathtub which [in Fast 10] would be the dam."

So, there you have it: Google Maps and a bathtub. An unlikely combo – but one that directly influenced (and saved) Fast 10’s explosive final act. For more from Leterrier, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:read his thoughts on 🐓♑Jason Momoa's Dante, a characte🎀r he describes a🎉s the franchise's "greatest" villain.

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