In 2001, we met champion underground street racer Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his archnemesis, LAPD police officer Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker). Over the course of two hours in 'The Fast and the Furious', we watched two men on opposite sides of the law race stunning machines, brawl together and form an unlikely, begrudging friendship.

Though they went their separate ways at the end of the film — Dom as an illegal ex-pat to Mexico and Brian as an FBI agent in Miami — we followed Brian's career in the second episode, '2 Fast 2 Furious', and caught a brief glimpse of Dom at the end of the third part of the franchise, 'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'.

But the lasting visual of Dom thundering across the Mexican border at the end of the original, however, left the door open for more adventures from our antihero…as well as more stories about the two women in his world — Dom's girlfriend Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and his sister Mia (Jordana Brewster), who happens to be the love of Brian's life.

It's taken eight years to do that.

"We've had a great time and a very successful run with the first three," explains series producer Neal Moritz. "But if we were really going to go to the next level, we had to bring back Vin and Paul."

To make that happen would take almost a decade of planning and endless coordination.

"We had a lot of conversations over a lot of years. It took schedules meeting up and our coming up with a great story that actually would be worthy of the two of them coming back. We were really lucky to pull it off."

Reuniting the original foursome of Diesel, Walker, Rodriguez and Brewster began, simply enough, with Diesel's cameo in 'Tokyo Drift'.

Says Diesel, who returns as both American muscle car junkie Toretto and as a producer of the film: "I like to do sequels that feel like they are a continuation of the original story. This 'Fast & Furious' script met that criteria."

The added incentive of reuniting with old friends didn't hurt. Reveals Diesel: "It’s rewarding to make this movie with people who were a part of my introduction to Hollywood."

"I didn’t think I was going make another one," recalls Walker, of reprising the role of undercover cop/foreign-car aficionado Brian O'Conner for a third time. "And then Neal told me about the master plan. I thought: 'Why not? I'll have a good time doing it, and I'll be hanging out with people I like spending time with.'"

Brian and Dom have different driving styles that mirror their personalities and perspectives on life. Walker felt those distinctions underscored the reallife dynamic between Diesel and him.

“It’s a fun contrast,” he says. “It’s East Coast meets West Coast. He’s straight up New York, and I’m as California as it gets. But for some reason, we get along really well. It’s the same thing with Brian and Dom.”

Dom and Brian, who first developed a kinship over a car’s engine, are bound by a shared code. This sense of family, complicated by his respect for Dom’s freedom, is what Brian has been seeking but has been unable to capture. And though he recognizes the danger of tangling with Dom and facing Mia’s wrath, Brian is willing to head down that road again when Dom returns to L.A.

Last seen crossing the Mexican border, Dom has made his way to the Dominican Republic, where the underground car culture flourishes. With Letty at his side, Dom has a new life…but one filled with the uncertainty of living as an international fugitive…

Bring on the fast cars, the burning rubber and plenty of women in tight clothing.

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