{"id":4486,"date":"2013-05-21T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T06:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/blog\/?p=4486"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:55:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:55:23","slug":"building-for-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ferrovial.com\/blog\/en\/2013\/05\/building-for-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Building for Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood has picked Spain as the location for some of the major scenes in the next instalment of The Fast and the Furious<\/i><\/a> franchise. The sixth movie in the series, which will hit the big screen in mid-2013, features stars such as Vin Diesel<\/a>, Paul Walker<\/a> and Dwayne “The Rock<\/a>” Johnson. Some scenes were shot on location in the Canary Islands, and that’s where our construction <\/a>company entered the picture: one of the movie’s most exciting scenes was filmed on a road that <\/b>Ferrovial Agroman<\/b><\/a> built<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the film used the new highway<\/b> linking Adeje with Santiago del Teide<\/b><\/a>, in southwest Tenerife. Five million cubic metres were excavated and 200,000 cubic metres of concrete were poured in building this 26-kilometer road<\/b>. Shooting took place on completed sections of the road, which is not yet open to traffic. More than 300 stunt performers were involved, in addition to the main unit, which included 350 people plus the actors, director and staff. In total, there were more than 650 people on location.<\/b> After ten weeks of filming, the definitive scene for the movie consists of a six-minute long action sequence. It’s not a typical car chase, since it features a military convoy with four tanks, one of them real.<\/p>\n