S3E3. Days of Thunder & Donnie Brasco - We Used to Make Movies

This episode, we're going all the way back to the original pitch that Paul Walker made to Rob Cohen for what would become The Fast and the Furious: "Days of Thunder meets Donnie Brasco." So, we've gone and watched both of those films, and they're a little different from the ones we usually watch on this show... For one thing, they're not in any way connected to the Fast franchise outside of that initial idea, and for another, we actually recommend you watch these movies for a change! So in light of that, we've dispensed with most of our usual recounting of the plot of the films, and instead focused for most of the episode on spoiler-free analysis of how these movies inform the The Fast and the Furious (2001). We hope you'll join us in watching both of these, and we hope you'll appreciate what turned out to be a fascinating lense through which to view the very beginning of the Fast franchise. Note: Spoiler block in this episode is from 00:47:38 - 01:05:39. If you want to avoid spoiler discussion you can use the chapter marker (if your player supports it) or just scrub to the latter timestamp. Episode Links * Days of Thunder (1990) * Days of Thunder (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Thunder) -- Wikipedia * Days of Thunder (1990) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099371/) -- IMDb * Donnie Brasco (1997) * Donnie Brasco (film) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Brasco_%28film%29) -- Wikipedia * Donnie Brasco(1997) (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119008/) -- IMDb Our Links * Our website: https://www.inreversecast.com * Our social links: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inreversecast/ * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@InReverseCast * Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@inreverse