That’s according to screenwriter David Ayer.
Ayer said that Thompson and Bergquist’s version of the story “was set in New York” and starred “Italian kids.” It was he who moved the story to Los Angeles and “started, like, writing in people of color, and writing in the street stuff, and writing in the culture, and no one knew s— about street racing at the time.”
Ayer also said he went to car shops in the Valley to meet mechanics, and put everything they told him about “the hacking of the fuel curves for the injectors and stuff like that” into the script. Despite all of that, Ayer says "the narrative is I didn't do s—" on the film. If Ayer’s version of events is accurate, he certainly deserves a lot of credit for the things that made what it is — at least initially; the later movies bear little resemblance to the first one besides a few of the characters. Of course, the other writers might disagree with his account or the extent to which he influenced the final shooting script. Without being able to see all the different drafts of the screenplay, it’s very hard to suss out who did what.
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