There are long-running movie
franchises that keep on going year after year with a new sequel installment, or
a reboot that gets its own sequel installments. And then there is Universal’s “Fast
& Furious,” a rather quirky action franchise that started out as an undercover
cop film with high-performance racing involved and evolved into an adventure
spectacle using high-performance racing to fight crime and terrorism, sort of.
The original 2001 movie was followed by multiple direct sequels and a spinoff
and the most recent, “Fate of the Furious” (2017) introduced a recurring threat
to the main characters. Said baddie returns in the upcoming “Fast” movie, with
some major unexpected help.
Entertainment Weekly tells us that Universal Pictures has finally
revealed their first full trailer for “F9: The Fast Saga,” the ninth mainline
movie of the near-two-decades-old “Fast & Furious” series. It came out last
Friday, January 31, following a short tease earlier in the previous week. Fans
of the franchise are sure to be curious as to how the film will tackle the
antagonist from “Fate of the Furious” three years ago. The initial trailer shows
exactly what Cypher (Charlize Theron) has got planned now against Dom Toretto
(Vin Diesel).
After her plan to ignite a
world-destroying nuclear war by manipulating carjacking mastermind and
reluctant government mercenary Dom fails, Cipher decides to engage another cats-paw,
one with a significant grudge against Dom. The now-retired Dom and the rest Toretto
family and crew now find themselves the target of Jakob (John Cena), a thief,
hired assassin and high-performance driver, who is revealed to be a younger
brother to both Dom and his sister Mia. With Cypher egging on Jakob’s obsession
with getting one up on his brother, the stage is set for another epic encounter
beyond the purview of a street-racing/car theft crew. And yes, there will be
high-performance racing involved.
Aside from new cast addition Cena
and returning regulars Vin Diesel and Tharlize Theron, “9” also stars Michelle
Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris Bridges and Helen Mirren. Other additions
are Cardi B, Michael Rooker and Ozuna. But the big buzz is the return of primary
stars from “Fast & Furious 3: Tokyo Drift” (2006), with Lucas Black, Jason
Tobin…and Sung Kang, who surprisingly returns as Han following his death in that
film (which takes place story-wise after 2013’s “Fast 6”). How he survived will
most likely be answered in the film.
“F9: The Fast Saga” is directed
by now-five-time franchise director Justin Lin, who also produces with Diesel,
and with a script from Daniel Casey. The movie premieres this May 22.
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