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Felix Gary Gray (born July 17, 1969) is an American director and producer. Gray began his career as a director on numerous critically acclaimed and award-winning music videos, including "It Was a Good Day" by Ice Cube, "Natural Born Killaz" by Dr. Dre and Ice Cube, "Keep Their Heads Ringin'" by Dr. Dre, "Waterfalls" by TLC, and "Ms. Jackson" by Outkast. Gray made his feature-film directorial debut with the comedy Friday (1995). He has since directed the films Set It Off (1996), The Negotiator (1998), The Italian Job (2003), Be Cool (2005), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), and Straight Outta Compton (2015). He also directed the eighth instalment of the Fast & Furious franchise, The Fate of the Furious (2017), which is one of the highest-grossing films of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article F. Gary Gray, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
F. Gary Gray
Director
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Convicted traitor and death row inmate Marcus Kane is being transported to San Quentin when his prison bus is violently ambushed by a black armored truck. He wakes up in a mysterious interrogation room face-to-face with his former best friend and betrayer, Sean Cosgrove, who Kane believed was dead. Cosgrove reveals that he now leads a covert mercenary team called "The Seven" and has kidnapped Kane's wife Megan and teenage daughter Eliza, locking them in an air-tight cell with only 96 hours of oxygen. To save them, Kane must retrieve a stolen microchip known as "The Skeleton Key"—a device containing nuclear launch codes—and deliver it to Cosgrove. To do so, he is forced to partner with Lester Lynch, a schizophrenic former government asset and accused murderer who suffers from violent psychotic episodes and hears voices commanding him to kill. Kane and Lynch embark on a brutal, globe-spanning mission from Tokyo's Yakuza underworld to the frozen coast of Alaska, forming a fragile and reluctant alliance. In Tokyo, with help from a grizzled CIA contact named Higgins, they infiltrate the fortress-like tower of Japanese kingpin Retomoto, retrieve the microchip, and escape in a helicopter as the building explodes behind them. But when Kane delivers the chip to Cosgrove, the villain double-crosses him, murders Megan mid-phone call, and takes Lynch hostage. Kane survives a point-blank shooting, rescues Eliza, and teams up with an eccentric, foul-mouthed CIA agent named Carmikael—whose kneecap Kane once shot out—to track Cosgrove to an Alaskan cargo dock. In a bloody, explosive showdown on a burning barge and collapsing ice, Kane and Lynch finally kill Cosgrove and destroy the microchip. Lynch disappears into the wilderness, finally at peace with his demons, while Kane surrenders to the FBI, now reconciled with his daughter Eliza, who visits him in prison and begins to call him "Dad."
