Hobbs and Shaw

Samoa becomes the Fast & Furious Spin-off’s Star

It’s a multipurpose excursion: They need to fix a machine that will save Hattie’s (Vanessa Kirby) life, and Hobbs’s brother Jonah (Cliff Curtis) is the only person in the world who can do the job. But they also go because the subplot of the movie is family—this is a Fast & Furious film, after all—and for a long time, Hobbs has had a terrible relationship with his actual relatives. Now that the fate of the world is at stake, it’s time to fix that as well.

The Rock's fight scene in Hobbs & Shaw was so violent, it got cut by the censors

The film censors refused to allow it in the final release of the film, which is due in August.

Johnson shared a sequence from the filming in Samoa, where Hobbs & Shaw is taking place, saying: "A lil' behind the scenes taste of the HOBBS & SHAW savagery that takes place in SAMOA.

"This bludgeoning will be in the film, but unfortunately the scene where I bite the bad guy's eye out and spit it on the dirt didn't make it."

"MPAA ratings board forbid us to show it because it was too violent", he added. 

"True story.