Quick & Livid Film Timeline & Viewing Order | ScreenRant
Retaining monitor of the Quick and Livid franchise timeline and viewing order is an enormous job. With eight movies made and a ninth on the best way, the Quick and Livid franchise has spent the higher a part of 20 years evolving as an motion franchise of critical scope. From the forged to the motion setpieces to the plot developments — all of which have grown by leaps and bounds for the reason that franchise started with 2001’s The Quick and the Livid — conserving monitor of how issues have progressed can get complicated.
Quick and Livid 9 is at the moment in manufacturing, and won’t solely proceed to advance the story arcs for most important characters like Dominic Toretto and Letty Ortiz, however additionally introduce a brand new story that should (considerably) seamlessly tie into earlier movies. One drawback is the Quick and Livid timeline is already a bit fuzzy because it was confirmed that 2006’s The Quick and Livid: Tokyo Drift passed off between 2013’s Quick & Livid 6 and 2015’s Livid 7 to account for Han’s (Sung Kang) timeline. The retconning of the Quick and Livid viewing order years after the discharge of Tokyo Drift to clarify why Han was alive within the sixth movie however died in a movie launched years earlier meant the timeline and the viewing order each needed to be reassessed.
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With Tokyo Drift throwing a critical curveball into the franchise’s continuity, it is most likely finest to make clear what the precise Quick and Livid viewing order is correct now. At present, the viewing order is as follows:
The Quick and the Livid (2001)Turbo-Charged Prelude to 2 Quick 2 Livid (2003)2 Quick 2 Livid (2003)Los Bandoleros (2009)Quick & Livid (2009)Quick 5 (2011)Quick & Livid 6 (2013)The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift (2006)Livid 7 (2015)The Destiny of the Livid (2017)
For probably the most half, the viewing order is pretty simple, with the one actual standout being Tokyo Drift, which is available in a lot additional alongside than you’d anticipate. This viewing order, together with the timeline defined, will hopefully assist in determining the chronology of this franchise.
The Quick And The Livid Timeline
The Quick and the Livid is the primary movie within the franchise. The movie introduces the 4 key characters who determine prominently into the remainder of the franchise: Dom, Letty, Mia Toretto, and Brian O’Conner. Eventual finest buddies Dom and Brian start on reverse sides of the fence on this first movie. Dom and his sister, Mia, run a storage and grocery retailer in Echo Park. Dom and Letty additionally work with a small workforce, utilizing their driving abilities to their benefit in aiding their getaways following their robberies. Brian is an undercover officer with the Los Angeles Police Division, making an attempt to earn Dom’s belief so he can be taught extra about Dom and join him to a string of robberies within the space.
Because of the challenge of Han’s demise and the occasion of Tokyo Drift, there is a discrepancy with what 12 months The Quick and the Livid takes place. When the movie was first launched, it was presumed to have taken place the identical 12 months it was launched, 2001. However Tokyo Drift’s timeline now probably pushes that 12 months up barely to 2004. After all, there’s was no manner this was deliberate on the time.
Turbo-Charged Prelude to 2 Quick 2 Livid
Turbo-Charged Prelude helps clarify why Brian goes from being an LAPD officer to a felony, a standing change already in impact when 2 Quick 2 Livid begins. The 6-minute quick is concentrated on Brian’s being charged with aiding and abetting Dom throughout the occasions of The Quick and The Livid earlier than transferring to Miami. That is the place 2 Quick picks up.
2 Quick 2 Livid Timeline
In 2 Quick 2 Livid, Brian is now a disgraced ex-cop dwelling and dealing in Miami. There, he is contacted by a former LAPD colleague, Bilkins, who wants his assist in taking down native drug lord Carter Verone. Brian, having realized from Dom how one can pull off an efficient heist, places collectively his personal crew and brings in childhood pal Roman Pearce to assist him lead it. The movie additionally introduces Tej Parker, on the time a avenue racer who turns into a tech knowledgeable. Each Roman and Tej develop into a part of the core Quick and Livid workforce.
Los Bandoleros
One other quick movie within the Quick and Livid franchise, Los Bandoleros focuses on Dom for its 20-minute runtime. The quick movie helps join just a few movies collectively and clarify how Dom and Letty rekindled their romance, ultimately occurring to develop into the facility couple of the franchise. In Los Bandoleros, Dom flees Los Angeles following the occasions of The Quick and the Livid. Transferring by way of Mexico, he leads to the Dominican Republic the place he types a brand new crew comprised of an outdated pal, Han, and locals Tego Leo (Tego Calderon) and Rico Santos (Don Omar). Dom and his workforce are given a job by an area politician, permitting them to place their abilities as a workforce to good use. Letty arrives on the scene. Dom and Letty drive off in direction of the coast collectively as soon as they full the job.
Quick & Livid Timeline
Quick & Livid is the primary movie the place timing turns into vital to trace, due to Han’s involvement. Regardless of the movie being launched after Tokyo Drift, the occasions inside the movie point out it takes place just a few years earlier as a result of Han continues to be alive.
Brian and Dom have each develop into even higher felony masterminds throughout their time aside, making all of them the extra highly effective as a workforce once they deliver their respective crews collectively in Quick & Livid. Dom and his crew from the Dominican Republic break up up, fearing their felony exercise will result in reprisals, and Dom additionally leaves Letty. Mia tells Dom over the cellphone shortly afterward that Letty was killed, throwing Dom into an investigation into her homicide. This leads Dom to cross paths as soon as extra with Brian, now working for the FBI and investigating a drug cartel led by Arturo Braga. Dom and Brian infiltrate Braga’s operation by changing into drivers for him. Certainly one of Braga’s males admits to killing Letty, who had infiltrated Braga’s operation shortly earlier than Dom on behalf of Brian in an try and win a pardon for Dom’s felony previous. Brian and Dom handle to take Braga into custody, handing him over to the FBI. Dom fingers himself over for his crimes and is en path to jail.
Quick 5 Timeline
Quick 5 begins mere moments after the tip of Quick & Livid, with Mia, Brian, and the crew working to spring Dom from a jail transport. Months later, Mia and Brian seek for Dom in Rio de Janeiro however as a substitute, The Quick and The Livid’ Vince will get them concerned in a heist stealing vehicles impounded by the DEA, which places them each on the DEA’s radar. Dom surfaces throughout this heist, bringing Dom, Brian, and Mia again collectively. Diplomatic Safety Service agent Luke Hobbs is shipped to seek out the trio, enlisting native translator and fixer Elena Neves to assist. Dom, Mia, and Brian be taught from Vince that the getaway automobile Mia took belongs to Hernan Reyes and embedded within the automobile is a chip containing the entire details about Reyes’ operation. The trio evades Hobbs and his workforce, which incorporates members of Reyes’ crew, throughout a tense firefight. Within the aftermath, determine to go after Reyes’ fortune. Dom and Brian assemble their crews from 2 Quick 2 Livid and Los Bandoleros to tug it off. The crew splits Reyes’ cash and goes their separate methods.
One large factor to deal with right here is the start on Dom and Elena’s relationship, solid underneath Dom’s perception Letty is useless (a post-credits scene includes Hobbs studying Letty continues to be alive, throwing a wrench into issues for the subsequent movie). The timeline of Dom and Elena’s relationship is a bit odd they’re hardly ever seen collectively in future movies however they go on to have a toddler collectively, as revealed in The Destiny of the Livid. The timing of when Elena may logically have been pregnant does not match with any potential level within the timeline the place she was with Dom and had alone time with him.
Quick & Livid 6 Timeline
Owen Shaw is a mercenary engaged on behalf of the now-incarcerated Braga from Quick & Livid, who has been orchestrating a collection of hijackings. Letty is revealed to be alive and dealing for Owen, having been saved alive by Braga’s workforce and handed off to Shaw. Hobbs asks for Dom’s assist in monitoring Owen down as a result of he is aware of Letty is working for Shaw. Dom indicators on and is joined by Han and Gisele (at the moment a pair) in addition to Roman and Tej. Brian and Mia sit this one out as they elevate their son in Spain following the occasions of Quick 5.
The workforce learns Shaw is constructing a tool known as Nightshade, meant to deliver down complete army communications programs. Because the workforce tracks Shaw, Dom tries to interrupt by way of Letty’s amnesia, a aspect impact of her accident the place she was presumed useless, and Brian manages to get data from Braga about how Letty got here to work for Shaw. After Shaw kidnaps Mia when he feels the workforce is getting to shut to taking him down, Dom and the crew go after him. Dom and the workforce nook Shaw throughout the movie’s last combat sequence. Gisele sacrifices herself so the workforce can get Nightshade. Shaw is thrown from a airplane and presumed useless whereas Dom retrieves Nightshade and offers it to Hobbs. Dom, Mia, and the workforce are given pardons for his or her work. The Torettos return to Los Angeles and Han goes to Tokyo.
The occasions of Quick & Livid, Quick 5, and Quick & Livid 6 happen inside a brief timespan. Quick 5 actually begins as Quick & Livid ends whereas Quick & Livid 6 takes place just some months later. Figuring out every movie takes place not lengthy after the earlier movie, Tokyo Drift seemingly takes place no a couple of 12 months after Quick & Livid 6.
Additionally, the Nightshade system Shaw is making an attempt to construct and promote to the best bidder is later revealed to have gone to Cipher, the villain in Destiny of the Livid. This connection is not made till Destiny but it surely fully retcons Shaw’s motivations and relationship to Cipher (within the sense that he has a relationship to her, full cease).
The Quick And The Livid: Tokyo Drift Timeline
Tokyo Drift initially bore no main connection to the general Quick and Livid franchise except for the vehicles and Han, nonetheless a supporting character within the franchise thus far, showing as a mentor determine. The movie facilities round Sean Boswell, a juvenile delinquent shipped from the U.S. to reside together with his father in Tokyo. Sean rapidly discovers the underground racing scene however loses to native champ Takashi, who’s feared and revered as a result of his uncle, Kamata, is an area crime boss. Sean meets Han, who mentors him within the artwork of drifting to assist in giving him a bonus in racing. Han is later accused by his boss, Kamata, of skimming from the operation’s coffers. Han runs and Takashi is in pursuit, each racing by way of Tokyo with Sean looking for them and cease it. In the course of the chase, Han is T-boned and killed immediately.
From right here on out, the timeline begins to fall again into order considerably. A post-credits scene from Quick & Livid 6 introduces Deckard Shaw, brother of Owen, as the person who killed Han with a view to get to Dom. Deckard is proven on the scene of Han’s crash, calling Dom to tell him Han is useless. This scene retcons the reason for Han’s demise and units in movement the occasions of Livid 7, whose timeline barely overlaps with Tokyo Drift.
Livid 7 Timeline
The movie begins with Deckard calling Dom to tell him about Han’s demise. Deckard targets Dom and his crew after studying they’re liable for what occurred to Owen (who’s revealed to be alive however hospitalized within the movie). Deckard sends bombs to Dom and Hobbs’ houses, placing the boys and their family members in peril. Dom, Hobbs, and their crew — which is now Letty, Brian, Roman, and Tej — are approached by a Black Ops agent known as “Mr. No person” who affords them the possibility to get Deckard if they will first rescue the hacker Ramsey, who created a program known as God’s Eye which permits an individual to be positioned anyplace on the earth by way of any technological system. Ramsey has been kidnapped by Mose Jakande, who needs God’s Eye for himself. The workforce rescues Ramsey, however Deckard reveals up throughout the rescue and steals God’s Eye. This makes it robust to trace Deckard down however Dom, Hobbs, and the workforce ultimately nook him, combat him, defeat him, and hand him over to the CIA, the place he is put right into a maximum-security jail.
The movie accommodates for the premature passing of Paul Walker, who performs Brian, by ending the movie with Brian driving off into the sundown. Brian will not be seen within the Quick and Livid franchise and his absence will seemingly be defined by his work and household obligations.
The Destiny Of The Livid
Dom and Letty reside in Cuba when Dom is approached by Cipher. Cipher calls for Dom work for her, blackmailing him with proof she has kidnapped Elena and the son she had with Dom as motivation to make him work for her. Dom activates the workforce — which now consists of Hobbs, Letty, Ramsey, Tej, and Roman — throughout a heist in Berlin to steal an EMP (electromagnetic pulse). Dom causes Hobbs’ automobile, which has the EMP, to crash and he takes it. Hobbs and the workforce are rounded up within the aftermath by Mr. No person and knowledgeable about Cipher. Ramsey acknowledges Cipher as a critical risk. Mr. No person informs the workforce Deckard will be a part of them and Deckard tells the workforce he is concerned as a result of Cipher was working with Owen and betrayed him.
Hobbs, Letty, and the remainder of the workforce tackle Cipher and try and free Dom from her grasp as Cipher makes use of God’s Eye (acquired from Mose Jakande) to evade seize. Cipher plans on beginning a nuclear battle with the help of Nightshade (acquired from Owen) to deliver down army communication programs. The workforce tracks Dom and Cipher to Russia, foiling Cipher and saving Dom and Elena’s son (Elena is killed earlier within the movie when Dom is not following Cipher’s orders). The workforce reconvenes in New York as soon as the mission is full.
A large retcon from Destiny of the Livid is Mose Jakande’s motivation to steal God’s Eye. In Livid 7, it is implied he’s working alone and for his personal functions. In Destiny of the Livid, we be taught he was working for Cipher and making an attempt to steal it for her.
Key Launch Dates
Quick & Livid 9 (2020) launch date: Might 22, 2020