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Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious franchise will see the production of at least two more films:
Universal surprised the CinemaCon audience by debuting The Fate of the Furious, the eighth installment in Universal's hit franchise, in full Wednesday. Star-producer Vin Diesel took the stage to talk about the franchise, which he's been a part of since the beginning. "One of the things we're so proud of with this chapter is how much we defied expectations," said Diesel.
A ninth and tenth installment have also already been announced.
"As the world sees this movie, they'll see how its the beginning of a new trilogy," Diesel said, adding that certain characters were brought in for this new trilogy.
The late star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash before the seventh film was released, was on the mind of Diesel as he took the stage. "Part of Paul's legacy lives through every frame that we shoot," Diesel said. "There's something beautiful about that."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 01 2017, @07:21PM (2 children)
I was hoping for that to be the case but to bring up Paul Walker's death for it would be a bit cruel.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 01 2017, @07:26PM (1 child)
I wonder if Paul Walker was a racing buff before he acted in the Fast and the Furious movies.
It would have been like when Mel Gibson starred in Passion of the Christ and then literally thought he was Jesus when he called out the Jews for killing Christ and being everywhere in Hollywood.
The great Star Trek: TNG episode frame of mind is a meta-parody of what can go wrong with method-acting when one gets a little too much into character.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 02 2017, @10:48AM
It was the 'sport driving' training in either F&F or 2F2F that got him into it, eventually leading to him buying an R34 skyline while Motorex was still importing them (similiar to his car in the movie. It later came out they had only crash tested the 96+ R33s, and were not in face retrofitting them according to government safety requirements, basically sinking the entire 'legitimate' greymarket import industry as a result. R32s, 1995 R33s, and 1999+ R34s either lacked correct emission gear, or safety requirements (notably airbags for 1995+ cars))