Fast & Furious 9
 

Delayed into 2020. Meanwhile, the Hobbs/Shaw spinoff will be coming in 2019.

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/60/84/26/6...-black-man.jpg

Tyrese made an Instagram post poking fun at the Rock, blaming him for the delay: “PSA Congratulations to @TheRock and your brother in law aka 7 bucks producing partner @hhgarcia41 for making the Fast and the Furious franchise about YOU. And like you, DJ even if they call I will not be deleting this post. Gn folks see you in 2020 April #FastFamily right? Nah….. it’s about #TeamDewayne #3yrs will it be worth the wait? #NoShaw just Hobbs will this be another #BayWatch? Guys guys just relax I’m just a passionate film critic.”

That article: http://www.darkhorizons.com/fast-and...-set-for-2019/

Shane Black wanted to direct the Hobbs/Shaw spinoff: http://www.darkhorizons.com/shane-bl...ious-spin-off/

Furious 9 delayed: http://deadline.com/2017/10/fast-fur...20-1202181866/

At the moment, there is way more drama surrounding the cast than was ever in the last movie... :tlol:

I enjoy the drama surrounding the actors hating each other more than I do the actual movies now. I thought the Rock / Vin feud for F8 was just a work but after seeing the film where they don't share the screen once it's obvious there is some bad blood there.

Ole Tyrese needs that F9 paycheck ASAP. Maybe he need to do more campaigning for the Green Lantern role.

The feud is over!

http://www.businessinsider.com/tyres...e-rock-2017-11

But it was getting nasty...

http://uproxx.com/movies/tyrese-the-...eud-leaving/2/

And I had no idea Justin Lin was announced as the director of 9. Huh.

John Cena up for a part, apparently:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/john-cen...and-furious-9/

The trailer:



Huh. So Han is alive, just like that. Never died and it was a cover-up.

So I know it's officially labelled part 9, but it is actually the 10th movie? Is like how Rogue One and Solo arbitrarily don't count as part of the main series, despite featuring major characters and clearly being intended as canon? Or was the last one actually non-canon and/or having some other reasonable excuse for not counting?

Hobbes and Shaw is a spinoff of the Fast and Furious movies. Don't know if that counts.

But why exactly doesn't it count?

Hobbs & Shaw was Hobbs & Shaw #1, not Fast & Furious #9.

Like, nobody is calling "Puss in Boots" Shrek V.

Postponed until April 2021

https://twitter.com/TheFastSaga/stat...ic%3Fpage%3D29

Shesus! That's quite a delay. And Diesel just promised it wouldn't move a few days ago.

I hate these movies. I do respect that they've reinvented themselves as these sort of special ops team flicks, but I haven't followed them since a buddy twisted my arm to watch parts I and II wayyyy back in the day.

We were really into Chicagoland area car culture back then and those movies just came off as Hollywood parody. I remember us laughing our asses off at the "I NEED 'NAAAuUUUUS!" guy like he was a crack addict who had to pronounce the acronym instead of trying to hook nitrous up to his ride. The whole thing didn't come off well at the time and I never looked back.

But these flicks are easy money. They are cheap to make, you can crank them out off an assembly line and enough people pay to see them to keep them going. So it's all good, I suppose.

They did a lot more than that. 1 was a pretty solid "Point Break with Cars," with part 2 becoming (hilariously, IMHO) a "Hollywood parody," specifically of bad 80s/90s undercover actioner movies. I loved the chemistry with Walker and Tyrese and find it the funniest of all, personally.

But anyway, that was those. And 3 wasn't really about anything. When things came back on the scene with 4, it came back as a reinvented as a straight up revenge thriller. And it worked! It was dead serious, but it worked, and felt genuine.

Part 5, it reinvented itself again as a heist/caper movie with the added caveat of "the gang's all here!" (the cast from 2, plus Han and Gisele from 4). And The Rock. It was great and a lot of fun, which is probably why it's a lot of people's favorite one.

Part 6, NOW they shift into the "special ops team flicks." But it's less that than the gang fighting their Mirror Universre counterparters, basically. It's not as good as 4 or 5 but still pretty decent.

Part 7, more "special ops team flick." Except this one's pretty weak, and not just because this is the one they had to salvage Paul Walker's death. It's a revenge movie where they don't actually get any. I don't care for it much.

Part 8, yep, more "special ops team flick." This one, however, they nail! Oh, it's absolutely ridiculous, especially the opening scene in Cuba, but it's not the least bit pretentious about anything. Awesome!

By this point there is lots of blah blah blah about "family, family!" but it all feels earned and legitimate. These really are actors playing the same characters together for years and years now, so we know the camaderie is real.

They are certainly not cheap to make. At least, not anymore. F8 cost 250 million.

Interesting break down.... you sound like a real fan of these flicks!



I was going to add something about that in my post above, but I didn't.... but yeah I'm sure once the Hollywood action guys starting gaining prominence in these, and they became "building destroying spectacles" that the price tag went up big time.

That's more the studio's decision then his. He has no control over when a movie gets released.

I got to be. I remember I was dragged to the first one when it came out by a friend who was super into illegal street racing (it exists, even out in the south Seattle areas like Kent) and mostly liked it, but wasn't sold. I saw the second one with him, and he HATED it... but I found it hysterical. I was apathetical to 3 but man, did 4 work for me.

Definitely started with 5. That's when they said, "It's still about family and always will... but the physics are going out the window." And they haven't really looked back. Which makes sense, since each one keeps on making more money than the last.

Also, I just realized stupidly... this year long delay has nothing to do with the virus, per se, does it? It's about China. They can't even go to the theater there right now, and not for the foreseeable future. It's about those oh so lucrative Chinese dollars being lost.

Man, this virus has gone far you know

Another one? Can we just kill this thing already? These got repetitive a long time ago.

The family is heading to space in this movie

https://screenrant.com/fast-furious-9-going-to-space/

Huh. They kind of alluded that a future one would do that.

Meh, at this point whatever. IMHO these are all surprisingly fun. Didn't super dig "Hobbes and Shaw" though. That did a little bit too much.

Watched all 8 movies last week.
The most amusing thing was slow transformation of the series from mediocre criminal drama about street racers to batshit insane CGI fest G.I.Joe meets Missions: Impossible thing.

Yeah, it actually blows my mind what this franchise has become. Nobody could have predicted in the early 2000's what it'd turn into, let alone have 9+ sequels and spinoffs. :lol:

Cars! In! SPAAAAAAACE!

Moved to May now.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/f9-the-...d-to-may-2021/

So they finally let Helen Mirren drive. :) That was like her first requirement when she signed onto all of these but they hadn't let her yet.

2nd trailer. Kind of... gives away too much, unnecessarily, IMO.

Wow, China really has Hollywood by the [you know what].
https://www.cnet.com/news/john-cenas...-need-to-know/

This clearly shows where all those Hollywood "Social Justice Warriors" stand.

They only can deal with random people and "has beens" who don't want to follow "party line", but as soon as there is a prospect of a conflict with someone who can **** on them back, like Western Taiwan, they **** themselves and turn into obedient slugs.

And this ****s think they can dictate others "how to live their lives", lol.

Saw it. Decent. Not as fun as 8, but it felt more like a "real movie" than it. Justin Lin definitely knows how to shoot action better than anyone else in the franchise.

I don't like people coming back from the dead in something like this and the Han explanation, while checking the right boxes to exonerate Shaw and tell us how everything we saw was "true"... it's still pretty messy.

The trip to space by Roman and Tej probably got the biggest reactions from the audience.

It's interesting, it seems that this is what Vin Diesel wanted to have "his" franchise and thought XXX and Chronicles of Riddick were going to be the "franchise" that made him huge. But he never found it, and without diesel FF died with the second movie and was forced to go to direct to video hell for the third, and it could've stuck like that but for whatever reason a fourth movie with vin diesel did well and now he has "his franchise" even if a decade late from when he was a hot hollywood movie star in the early 2000's.

That revival of his career hasn't helped him with other movies, at least not his revivals of Riddick and XXX. He's kind of like Robert Downey Jr in that sense, but I like Riddick and Diesel seems to love it so I'm sure we'll see another riddick movie even if he has to pay for it all.

This is just too funny. :lol:

https://scontent.fmia1-1.fna.fbcdn.n...22&oe=60DFA33A

Yeah, what the hell happened to Riddick 4? They were supposedly gearing up to film it like 5 years ago.

Riddick 3 took forever to get made as well when it was supposed to "finally shoot" as well so it'll come out eventually. Riddick is Diesel's pet project, he loves the character and world but studio's aren't as crazy about it, so it's pretty much him who has to convince others to get it done and put his money to get it made but since he loves it, he's willing to do it. I think that's cool, we'll see it one day, most likely now that Fast Furious is finishing, he'll have more time to work on the stuff that won't actually get him a lot of money.

This one is supposed to be higher budget than Riddick 3 as well, which is good I want to explore the universe more, though I doubt it'll be as big as Riddick 2.

I found it such a pleasure to see this movie in Dolby Cinema the other week. The sound of cars driving was all around me. I know how Letty felt when she said at one point she was feeling herself and then suddenly a big change happened in her life. I'm sure she and I are not alone with the year-and-a-half we've had.