Fast and The Furious: Spy Racers Animated Series Coming To Netflix
Dreamworks TV have announced a new Fast and the Furious animated series
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In Annecy, Tim Hedrick (“Voltron Legendary Defender”), a co-executive producer and showrunner on “Fast & Furious: Spy Racers” offered a first-look sneak peek of the brand new series, slated for release on Netflix later this year.
Bret Haaland (“All Hail King Julien”) serves with Hedrick as an executive producer and showrunner. The series is also executive produced by Vin Diesel and Chris Morgan, producers on the live-action “Fast & Furious” franchise.
It turns on teen Tony Toretto who follows in the footsteps of cousin Dom when he and his friends are recruited by a government agency to infiltrate an elite racing league – serving as a front for a nefarious crime organization bent on world domination, the synopsis runs.
How can we turn an action franchise into an animation show and not lose something in the process? Hedrick asked at Annecy. His answer was by introducing fun elements, and going back to the series origins and development, and shooting with an ultra-attention to sound and realistic camerawork.
Hedrick showed off the cars, such as Tony’s “Toretto muscle car,” as Hedrick put it, friend’s Cisco monster truck, and the Japanese inspired car of Layla, a girl they meet.
“The DreamWorks team has done an insane job building the cars. We really want them to be able to interact with their various environments, we have races that go through the desert, and up the mountains, and all over the place,” Hedrick told Variety.
“We want spectators to get that kind of adrenaline they get watching the live action films,” he added.
The first race will be through tunnels under L.A., Hedrick said. Series in set in a lush and beautified L.A, with dramatic sunsets, street artistry and an extraordinary lair where the kids hang out.
Hedrick sneak-peeked a test sequence of a car’s interacting with environment, here a desert as it slides across the sand. Cinematography in another sequence has, in hyper realism, water splashing up onto the camera lens and a car moving out of focus as if the camera can’t keep up with its speed.
06-13-2019, 10:39 AM
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