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Hobbs & Shaw (2019)

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Original title
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw
Directed by
David Leitch
Genre
action film, thriller film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 17m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 7,824 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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Two rival agents must team up to stop a cybernetically enhanced terrorist from unleashing a deadly virus. They bicker and fight their way across the globe with help from the one agent's sister.

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What happens

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (or simply Hobbs & Shaw) is a 2019 American buddy action comedy film directed by David Leitch from a script by Chris Morgan and Drew Pearce. It is a spin-off film and the ninth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, taking place after the events of The Fate of the Furious (2017). It stars Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, alongside Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Eiza González, Cliff Curtis, and Helen Mirren. In the film, Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw join Shaw's younger sister Hattie Shaw to take down Brixton Lore (Elba), a cybernetically enhanced terrorist, who is threatening the world with a deadly virus. Franchise star and producer Vin Diesel 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, with Kirby and Elba joining the cast three months later. Principal photography ran from September 2018 to January 2019, with locations including London, Glasgow, and Kauaʻi. The film was subject to controversy after longterm Fast & Furious producer Neal H. Moritz filed a lawsuit against Universal Pictures for breach of oral contract and committing promissory fraud related to his role on Hobbs & Shaw, which was eventually settled in September 2020 and he received a producer credit on F9 (2021). Hobbs & Shaw premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood on July 13, 2019, and was theatrically released in the United States on August 2, 2019. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised its action sequences and the chemistry between Johnson and Statham, but found it underwhelming when compared to other Fast & Furious films. It was a box office success, grossing $760.7 million worldwide on a budget of $200 million. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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