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Warning: this post contains some space-related spoilers forF9.
Jumping a supercar from the nosebleed floors ofone skyscraper to another?
Careening a multi-tonbank vaultthrough the streets of Rio de Janeiro?
Outrunning andoutgunning a nuclear submarineacross Russias arctic plain?
Crashing a souped up Dodge out of thenose of a cargo planeduring takeoff?
Check and double check.
It is something that I did have a lot of conversations about.
And it went from rocket scientists laughing, going, What the fuck?
to us saying, Well, can this really happen?
If other rocket scientists have to get up there and the capsules are coated with these polymers?
This is something that was thought out.
If anything logistically, scientifically its one of the most sound action set pieces in our franchise.
And the bad guys about to get away, but hes just at the Apollo 11 site.
And he finds the original moon rover, and hes racing, recalls Henson.
But then Justins like, Well, maybe theres something there.
According to longtime collaborators, Lins research-and-development process for those sequences begins humbly enough.
Whats the big crazy thing thats going to happen?
Whats that thing that we all have to tap our inner 6-year-old to make blow up?
Among the filmmakers questions: Could such a capsule be launched from the ground?
How much fuel would it need?
Could underwater diving suits like the ones Tej and Roman wear in fact stand up to extra-orbital pressures?
And could a Pontiac Fiero really survive in space?
That Fiero, if you look at it, has been reinforced.
It has been built out.
And actually, theyve been testing it, Lin points out.
Earl, Twinkie, and Sean are not making this up.
They work at a propulsion lab.
They are rocket scientists!
That much is tipped by Gibson early on.
I point this out to Lin and ask him if Tyreses speech is some sort of head nod.
Look, were 20 years in, the director says.
Personally, I love it.
We wanted to acknowledge that for the first time.
To say, Hey, lets be very conscious of it.
A lot of times, people tell me, Oh youre defying the laws of physics, Lin concludes.
Id like to think that I know that.
