CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » General Edinburgh

Fast and Furious

(18 posts)

No tags yet.


  1. neddie
    Member

    Filming to take place in the Old Town in September.

    Road closures, presumably including cyclists and pedestrians for safety reasons.

    How does a film glamourising illegal street racing fit with:

    - the historic and narrow Old Town streets;
    - death and danger caused by such activities*;
    - Open Streets;
    - traffic reduction in cities;
    - global climate emergency...

    ...exactly?

    https://www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinburgh-news/fast-furious-9-filming-take-16595125

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/fast-and-furious-9-royal-mile-residents-warned-of-closures-as-filming-takes-place-in-edinburgh-1-4965524

    *A teenager tragically was killed recently because of exactly this: https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/girl-15-dies-hit-run-17485203

    Posted 4 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    @neddie, never watched a fst and furious film sounds terrible

    Posted 4 years ago #

  3. neddie
    Member

    @gembo

    The films must be popular, like it or not, since they managed to reach sequel #9 (is this a record?)

    Posted 4 years ago #

  4. gembo
    Member

    @neddie, i shall as young master Gembo he takes a bemused interest in multiple sequels.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  5. PS
    Member

    They filmed some of one of the F&F films in Glasgow last year. Basically closed off roads near George Square and had a noisy car doing noisy stuff. There didn't seem to be much in the way of stunt work from what I could see - is this all done with CGI now?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  6. LaidBack
    Member

    Grand Theft Auto has some Edinburgh streets in it (I think).
    Not sure if any cyclists appear in it. If they applied 'real' city conditions then they'd get stuck behind hordes of tour buses, scaffie wagons and camper van's.
    Traffic is so bad that the Gold Brothers rarely bring their Lamborghinis up town now :-(

    Posted 4 years ago #

  7. Stickman
    Member

    My brother attended a wedding of one of the Gold family. He said the array of supercars on display would have impressed a Saudi Prince.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  8. acsimpson
    Member

    If James Bonds count as sequels then #9 is nowhere near a record.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  9. wingpig
    Member

    @LaidBack Project Gotham Racing or something similar had a track going round Johnston Terrace, Lothian Road, Princes Street and the Mound.
    Restless Natives had a couple of shots filmed around Victoria Street, presumably using no CGI whatsoever.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  10. Greenroofer
    Member

    If you want to drive cars inappropriately round a virtual Edinburgh the Forza Horizon 4 is the thing to try. It's rather fun, actually.

    The small Greenroofers enjoy it immensely, although they have noticed that while it features a lot of street furniture that you can drive through, and many vehicles you can crash into, there are no people anywhere so you can't harm people on foot or on bikes.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  11. Roibeard
    Member

    If that's your poison, Greenroofer, you'll need to look at Grand Theft Auto or the "classic" Carmegeddon.

    However I don't think either let you mow down Edinburgh active travellers.

    Prudishly, I'd keep these as parent games rather than children games...

    ;-)

    Robert

    Posted 4 years ago #

  12. wingpig
    Member

    I assume it's this lot currently responsible for the western two blocks of George Street being blocked during peak commuting-time. At least, in the morning, I could legally use Rose St to go in the required direction.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  13. gembo
    Member

    @wingpig they have fecked off to block some other town now.

    Posted 4 years ago #

  14. Murun Buchstansangur
    Member

    Nope - still here taking the peepee

    "George Street will be closed from Frederick Street to Hanover Street until 10pm tomorrow, as will Castle Street (from Rose St to George Street) and North Castle Street (From George Street to Hill Street)."

    https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/traffic-and-travel/fast-and-furious-9-list-of-monday-road-closures-as-filming-takes-place-in-edinburgh-1-5004874

    Posted 4 years ago #

  15. gembo
    Member

    Sheeesh, saw report in same paper with vin diesel saying cheerio

    Posted 4 years ago #

  16. jdanielp
    Member

    @gembo maybe it was just Vin who wrapped on the shoot?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  17. stiltskin
    Member

    I have to say that the standard of driving on George Street was appalling. Don’t they know there’s a 20 mph limit?

    Posted 4 years ago #

  18. CycleAlex
    Member

    No regard for the cycle lane either. Who do they think they are, Edinburgh drivers?!

    Posted 4 years ago #

RSS feed for this topic

Reply

You must log in to post.


Video embedded using Easy Video Embed plugin