Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 (2025 Film)

Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 is a 2025 film. It is a reboot of the Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 Animated TV series that ran from 2009 to 2011. It entered Development as a Hot Wheels Live Action film in the early 2000s and several animated series were produced by Mattel. Following the success of Mattel Films first film Barbie (2023) the Hot Wheels film which was already in production began filming in 2024. The film was based on the Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 series. It was a major critical and commercial success.

Synopsis
A Stunt Driver is recruited by a higher dimensional cyborg to save a ruined Multiverse from mutant barbarians and evil robots. He forms a team of drivers called the Battle Force 5 made up of a huntress, sound expert, martial artist and two genius brothers. They race and battle through inter-dimensional raceways on a quest to save the multiverse.

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Cast

 * Nicholas Hoult as Vert Wheeler
 * Jamie Campbell Bower as Stanford Isaac Rhodes IV
 * Kat Graham as Agura Ibaden
 * Aramis Knight as Zoom Takazumi
 * Jacob Elordi as Sherman Cortez
 * Joel Courtney as Spinner Cortez
 * Olivia Wilde as Sage
 * Sujaya Dasgupta as Grace
 * Patrick Dempsey as Zeke
 * Dwayne Johnson as Sheriff Johnson

Voice Cast

 * Keith David as Kalus
 * Troy Baker as Krocomodo
 * Hank Azaria as Sever
 * Tilda Swinton as Hatch
 * Zachary Quinto as Zemerik
 * Fred Tatasciore as Zug

Development
On January 30, 2003, Columbia Pictures announced they had gained exclusive rights to developing a feature film based on the toy line Hot Wheels with McG attached to direct. Although unwritten, the premise involved a young man "trying to reconcile with his father. It's a kid who steals his dad's racecar and ends up going through a sort of Back to the Future portal into this world, and he has to reconcile his relationship with his father." In 2006, McG said that he dropped out as director and chose to produce instead. The film was to be produced by Columbia Pictures, Flying Glass of Milk Films and Silver Pictures, under license to Mattel. In 2009, with no recent developments, the film was put into turnaround, and the rights were handed over to Warner Bros. Pictures. Joel Silver took over producing with Matt Nix writing the script.

On June 17, 2011, it was announced that Legendary Pictures was developing a film based on Hot Wheels due to the success of Fast Five by developing an edgier film. On July 10, 2013, Simon Crane and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo were named as the frontrunners to direct the film, with Art Marcum and Matt Holloway writing the film, intended to be more Mission: Impossible than The Fast and the Furious. On September 28, 2016, Justin Lin signed on to direct the film, which will be produced through his production company Perfect Storm Entertainment. On August 1, 2017, Lin revealed that the film was still in development. It was speculated that the film would be released as a computer animated direct sequel to 2003's Hot Wheels: World Race and will be receive additional animation development from Playground Games who collaborated with Mattel in 2017 to create the Forza Horizon 3: Hot Wheels video game. However the option expired and returned to Mattel.

In late January 2019, Mattel Films and Warner Bros. Pictures agreed to partner on a Hot Wheels film. It was announced on September 25, 2020, by The Hollywood Reporter that Warner Bros. has hired Neil Widener and Gavin James to write the film.

On April 25, 2022, it was announced that Bad Robot Productions will produce the film. On January 23, 2023, Dalton Leeb and Nicholas Jacobson-Larson were announced to write the film.

In May 5th, 2024 the film entered production and a teaser was released revealing the film was a reboot of the Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 Animated Series from 2009.

On December 7th, 2024 a trailer was released.

On April 29th, 2025 the film was released.

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