Fast Girls is a forthcoming British feature film directed by Regan Hall and written by Jay Basu, Noel Clarke and Roy Williams.

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It stars Lenora Crichlow, Lily James, Bradley James, Clarke and Rupert Graves. The film follows the story of two women as they become professional sprinters and join the British relay team for a World Championship event. The film was launched at the Toronto Film Festival in 2011, before having its world premiere in London on 7 June 2012. The film was released on 15 June in the United Kingdom.

The movie follows the story of athletes Shania Andrews (Lenora Crichlow) as she competes against Lisa Temple (Lily James) at a local level, and follow the duo as they work their into the British 4x100 meters relay team and compete in the World Championships.

Discussion took place to decide whether or not to base the athletics competition in the film on the 2012 Summer Olympics. Due to the legal issues around trademark issues, it was instead decided to make the competition a fictional competition whilst working with UK Athletics. However, this decision was made after the International Olympic Committee refused for there to be any affiliation with the film. The script then had to be re-written to remove all traces of the Olympics, including all utterances of that word. Co-writer Noel Clarke took inspiration from Rocky, saying that if you made a sports film you'd want it to be the equivalent film to what Rocky was to boxing.

The actresses portraying athletes completed six weeks of intensive training at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre prior to the beginning of the shooting phase of the film, being trained by sprinters Jeanette Kwakye and Shani Anderson. The training sessions involved up to a thousand sit-ups each day, six days a week.

On the first day of shooting, Lenora Crichlow was diagnosed with stress fractures in her ankles which she attributed to running on track spikes without proper training. Body doubles were empl.