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Originally Posted by Gixxersixxerman
Craig lost respect from me when he turned the blackbird into that joke of a gtr in the second movie.. Luckly it was changed back, but still he ruined that car
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I don't think that was necessarily his doing. Remember that he owned the original Blackbird R34 GT-R (which was featured in Sport Compact Car -- I distinctly remember it having a mini-turbo as the oil cap), though he later painted it blue with some orange accents on it, if I remember correctly. Then they based the GT-R in the second movie off of his, with the same body kit and stuff, but they went with a different painjob, likely to coincide with the colored exhaust flames that were different from the other cars. (I believe he also owned the orange Supra that was copied.)
He told me a lot of other stuff (some of which was later confirmed on some online videos of people going over the original script for the first movie), and it seems like there were some people in the visual effects department who seemed to insist on going with certain visuals. For example, he told me about how the original script's race scene had the NOS tubes popping off of the bottle and spraying nitrous on the windshield and hampering outward vision, but the visual effects person said that they wanted to see "sparks" somehow, and the idea got canned for the weird instance of the floor panel somehow coming loose because of NOS.
That's not to say that Craig had zero involvement in things that ended up being kind of cheesy though.