Fast & Furious 6 (stylized onscreen as Furious 6) is a 2013 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. A sequel to 2011's Fast Five, it is the sixth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise and stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Sung Kang, Luke Evans, Gina Carano and John Ortiz. Fast & Furious 6 follows a professional criminal gang led by Dominic Toretto (Diesel), who are offered amnesty for their crimes by the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Johnson), in exchange for helping him take down a skilled mercenary organization led by Owen Shaw (Evans), one member of which is Toretto's former lover Letty Ortiz (Rodriguez). After departing from the street racing theme of previous films in Fast Five to great commercial and critical success, developers approached Fast & Furious 6 with the aim to transform the franchise further, incorporating elements of spy and adventure film, in the hopes of increasing audience numbers further. Pre-production begun in April 2011, and principal photography began in London in July 2012, and featured several international filming locations, including the Canary Islands, Glasgow, and Los Angeles. Fast & Furious 6 first opened in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2013, and was released internationally on May 24, 2013. It achieved financial success, setting box office records as the sixth-highest-grossing film released in 2013, the second-highest-grossing film in Universal Studios history, and it surpassed Fast Five to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise. Fast & Furious 6 grossed over $788 million worldwide, ranking it number 85 on the all-time worldwide list of highest-grossing films. Fast & Furious 6 received mostly positive reviews, with praise for the performances, action sequences, villain and Lin's direction, but also received criticism for its running time and screenplay.[4][5][6] A sequel, Furious 7, released in April 2015, eventually surpassed Fast & Furious 6 as the highest-grossing film in the franchise, earning over $1.5 billion worldwide.
