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So that confirms it: Frank is harder than a superhero fighting with an explosive bow and arrow while his family are on the line.Īs mentioned above, the third film goes back to franchises original roots a little more with Frank once again a transporter, but it’s obviously not as close as first examined. To put this into some context, Spider-Man never kills anyone in his franchise but gets injured 10 times, Rambo gets injured 11 times, and Die Hard’s John McClane gets injured 16 times. He only gets injured once throughout the entire franchise that was just a minor head wound after the final scene of the second film. (will link to )Įach of the three films interestingly add something different, but despite this, one thing is always consistent: Frank. As The Playlist aptly said, “when it comes to the franchise that made his name, he’s walking away from it slowly (as something surely explodes behind him)”. If all goes well, we should be seeing Transporter 4 hit the big screen in 2015, but it seems that Statham won’t be present as Ed Skrein is taking over the lead role.

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The film isn’t as good as Transporter 2, but it’s a damned lot closer than the first the creators tightened up the story while reinstating him as a professional transporter like the first, he also had a new and much better female counterpart, and Frank is still as bad-ass as ever. Three years later we reach Transporter 3, which manages to bring in $108m worldwide, continuing and growing on the success of the second film. This went on to generate a comparatively massive $85m worldwide, and frankly (ha, get it) a much better film plot: Frank on a mission to save the boy.

So the foundations were set for a typical action film the studio decided to take a new direction on Transporter 2 where Frank isn’t technically a transporter of goods but is now emotionally bound to a six year old. Let’s look at the facts from the first film: Jason Statham as Frank was an OK macho lead (but just OK), his female counterpart was incredibly annoying, and the story didn’t do enough to carry itself – but most importantly: things blew up and people died (Explosions: six. So why did the studio commit to another film, let alone two more? The Transporter started off the trilogy to the tune of $44m worldwide – not a huge sum in the grand scheme of things considering the budget was almost half of that. It’s not often that the first film in a franchise is actually the worst, mainly because studios only commit to a bankable success.

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Let’s take a look at how a professional deliveryman is enough of a driver to validate three films. Note: The BMW V-12 engine used in the 750iL also was sold to Rolls Royce to power their flagship models.Delivering things is easy, right? Wrong. Some of the vehicle stunts involving the BMWs were staged by Phillippe Guegan (Guegan Stunt Company). Small variations in interior appointment levels can be seen in the movie, thus confirming there were multiple vehicles used during filming. During the filming (2) were destroyed and (1) was severly damaged. And the model badges were removed because they were not all the same type. There were (3) BMW vehicles purchased for the filming. The vehicle(s) shown in the film are all pre-facelift E38 (1999) and are probably 1998 models. The 750iL model was not marketed by BMW for mass market appeal and was very expensive for the time. The vehcle is referenced as a 1999 BMW 735i throughout the movie to promote 735i sales globally and in the USA.

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The 750iL in the film had a stock 322HP V-12 engine and was fitted with a 6-speed manual transmission (850ci) for the movie (by BMW) to allow for more 'action' during the chase sequences.

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This was a product placment vehicle to promote BMW's 7 series of vehicles. The primary vehicle seen throughout the movie is a 1998 BMW 750iL Euro model, referenced as a 735i. There is some question as to exactly what BMW model was used in the production of The Transporter movie.Ī location director on The Transporter movie involved in all the car chase scenes has provided the following production facts: