The Etihad Towers jump sequence featured in F9 in 2021. As viewers await the release, it's important to look back and the insane stunts that Fast & Furious already pulled out. Here's how the cast and crew behind Furious 7 really pulled off the Abu Dhabi skyscraper stunt.
After gaining amnesty from the takedown of Owen Shaw's crew in Han Lue (Sung Kang). With that, Dom's team set their sights on Deckard while they were enlisted to help take down a terrorist organization led by Mose Jakande (Djimon Hounsou).
As part of the mission involving the terrorists, Dom's crew was ordered to rescue a hacker that had an understanding of a special tracking program known as God's Eye. In order to get their hands on the program, they were led to Abu Dhabi, which involved sneaking into a party of a Jordanian prince at the Etihad Towers. The prince had the flash-drive containing God's Eye, but he was keeping it inside of a safe hidden in a Lykan HyperSport. Dom and Brian ended up stealing the car near the 50th floor of the tallest tower before crashing it through the window into the building nearby. The pair carry out the stunt again, flying into a third tower before abandoning the expensive car as it fell to the ground below. While the adrenaline-inducing stunt wasn't completely filmed in the United Arab Emirates, the cast and crew did do some filming in Abu Dhabi.
The Furious 7 Etihad Towers Stunt Was Filmed In A Sound Stage
Furious 7 stunt coordinator Andy Gill has since explained that there was never a discussion to actually drive a car from building to building. While the cast and crew spent nearly a week in Abu Dhabi, it was mainly for on-location shoots, including aerial footage and small stunts. To carry out the Etihad Towers stunt, the production team built multiple 40-foot tall glass and steel enclosures in an Atlanta sound stage. A stunt driver then got behind the wheel of a Lykan HyperSport and drove through each glass wall, which was shown in the movie.
While the rest was done with a Walker's untimely death before filming wrapped.
