Twenty-five years after it first tore onto the streets of Los Angeles, The Quick and the Livid is heading again to theaters.
Common Footage has launched a brand new anniversary trailer celebrating the movie that kicked off one of many greatest motion franchises in film historical past, and for longtime followers, it is a reminder of simply how totally different the sequence seemed when it first began.
Initially launched in June 2001, The Quick and the Livid launched audiences to road racer Dominic Toretto and undercover cop Brian O’Conner, launching a saga that will ultimately develop into a worldwide phenomenon.
What started as a comparatively grounded road racing thriller developed right into a franchise that has earned greater than $7 billion worldwide throughout 11 movies and a number of spin-offs.
Common mirrored on the franchise’s unimaginable run, saying: “Over the course of 11 movies which have stoked ardour in an ever-expanding viewers and have earned greater than $7 billion U.S. on the worldwide field workplace, Common’s record-smashing, homegrown Quick & Livid Saga has change into the studio’s most-profitable and longest-running franchise.”
As a part of the anniversary celebration, the movie was screened on the 2026 Cannes Movie Pageant and can now return to theaters nationwide on August 21, 2026, giving followers one other likelihood to expertise it the place it belongs: on the large display screen.
Whereas the franchise would ultimately change into identified for more and more outrageous motion sequences, many followers nonetheless respect the unique movie for its extra grounded method.
The racing felt actual, the stakes had been private, and the sensible driving sequences helped set up a method that lots of the later entries would construct upon. There’s a uncooked vitality to the film that also holds up all these years later.
The movie’s official synopsis reads: “They have the adrenaline rush and the imply machines, however most of all, they have the intense want for pace. On the turbo-charged streets of Los Angeles, each evening is a championship race.
“With nitro-boosted fury, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), guidelines the highway turning all his challengers into mud. He and his rival, Johnny Tran (Rick Yune) are the boldest, the baddest and the perfect.
“However there’s new rage on the highway. They know he is robust, they know he is quick, however what they do not know is that he is a pace demon detective (Paul Walker) with sufficient drive and dedication to come back out the winner.
“With intense full-throttle motion, superior high-speed stunts, and full-on pedal to the steel depth, this quick and livid assault places you within the driver’s seat & dares you to exceed all limits.”
The movie was directed by Rob Cohen, who was coming off The Skulls and would go on to direct xXx the next 12 months. The screenplay was written by Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist, and David Ayer, primarily based on Ken Li‘s journal article Racer X. Longtime franchise producer Neal H. Moritz additionally helped convey the challenge to life.
With one other Quick & Livid sequel at the moment scheduled for 2028, the franchise is not slowing down anytime quickly. However earlier than the subsequent chapter arrives, followers could have the possibility to revisit the film that began all of it.
Whether or not you had been there opening weekend in 2001 or found the franchise years later, seeing The Quick and the Livid again on the large display screen must be a blast!