


The ride is based mainly on the sixth installment of the Fast & Furious franchise, which features Luke Evans as the villain on both the film and ride. The ride was announced for Universal Studios Florida on Augit opened on April 23, 2018, replacing Disaster! and Beetlejuice's Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue. Supercharged officially opened at Universal Studios Hollywood on June 25, 2015. On March 20, 2015, Universal released an online behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the ride in which the actors are seen playing their respective characters in front of a green screen and makeshift vehicles that would later be digitally replaced with computer-generated vehicles. The attraction also was replacing The Fast and the Furious: Extreme Close-Up, which closed in July 2013, although it was not housed in the same site where Supercharged would be built at. The first commercial for Fast & Furious: Supercharged was aired during Super Bowl XLIX, announcing the ride for the summer of 2015, which replaced the site of Curse of the Mummy's Tomb. The ride was first announced in April 2014 for a 2015 opening at Universal Studios Hollywood.
