Despite the gradual global success of The Fast and the Furious franchise, Fast Five is when the series grew to a massive commercial success, gaining nearly $300 million more than the previous film.
The fourth film, Fast & Furious, earned the franchise over $360 million worldwide. The first Fast and The Furious film made over $207 million worldwide, and the three following films continued to grow the series’ box office numbers, with a slight dip with Fast Furious: Tokyo Drift. Fast Five marked Johnson’s debut into the franchise.īefore Johnson joined the crew, The Fast and The Furious franchise was already four-films strong. While planning and trying to execute the heist, U.S Diplomatic Security Service Agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) plans to take them down and arrest the team. It has affected the star so much, his latest video promises to fly Jacob and his family to Vancouver to the set of Skyscraper because he wants to “shake the hand of a real life hero.” Should be quite the experience.Fast Five follows franchise regulars Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster), Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson), Tej Parker (Ludacris), and Han Lue (Sung Kang) as they try to steal $100 million from Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). “I’m so amazed and impressed by this little 10 yr old boy’s heroic actions and calm instincts in the middle of that kind of emergency distress,” I now need to shake young Jacob's hand…Ī post shared by therock on at 5:40pm PDTĪs he put it, the story “grabbed his heart” and prompted quite the response from the action icon: I'm so amazed and impressed by this little 10yr old boy's heroic actions and calm instincts in the middle of that kind of emergency distress.
Jacob said he learned how to do this by watching me in his favorite movie, SAN ANDREAS. He pulled his little brother out and started CPR & chest compressions. 10yr Jacob O'Connor found his little 2yr old brother, Dylan laying facedown in their pool. Johnson has commented on the story numerous times at this point, even sharing it over on Instagram: The 10-year-old has earned praise from rescue workers and members of the community, but the biggest admirer might be The Rock himself. It’s been about a month since the incident and Jacob’s brother, Dylan, has recovered and the story of young heroism is spreading around. “And that’s when I started doing the compressions.”įor half a minute, Jacob said he pushed and pushed until Dylan’s “heart started pumping.” And then, just like The Rock’s daughter, Jacob’s brother “vomited a little water.” “The movie just popped up in my head and I started thinking about that scene,” Jacob, of Roseville, Mich., told The Washington Post. While the scene might be fantastical itself, the actions of Dwayne Johnson on the screen gave Jacob exactly what he needed to save his brother according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch: The scene that helped deals with Johnson having to save his daughter - played by Alexandra Daddario - from drowning near the end of the film. While the movie is full of a lot of fantastical elements involving a fictional Earthquake striking California, the movie now has a slight connection to saving lives in reality. He got his brother out of the pool and started to do CPR, something he’d learned after watching the film San Andreas starring The Rock.
10-year-old Jacob O’Connor knew exactly what to do when he found his brother face down in the pool at his grandmother’s Michigan home.