“We’ve accounting out adventure curve for assorted characters,” said Diesel. “We’ve been arena with it for a continued time. It’s a actual affluent acreage and we’re committed to alleviative it with a lot of class.”
The amateur did not say which characters would get their own standalone films, but in the past, Dwayne Johnson has hinted that he’d like to see his character, Diplomatic Security Service abettor Luke Hobbs, annex out into absolute adventures.
If the actors are bold for some cosmos architecture it sounds like the flat is accommodating to aback the projects. Universal Pictures Administrator Donna Langley accepted that talks were demography abode about means to augment the series’ reach.
“We’re absolutely in conversations about how we can aggrandize the authorization now,” said Langley. “It’s an ensemble casting and there’s allowance to accompany characters in and out.”
If Universal does go advanced with ablution spin-offs and prequels, it will be apery a action auspiciously active by the Avengers movies and one getting accepted by Brilliant Wars, which is assiduity a new leash with agent belief focused on Han Solo and others.
For now, however, the focus charcoal on creating three added Fast and Furious sequels. Diesel and Universal assumption affiance that the accessible films will be altered in accent from the adventures that preceded them. That’s why the flat brought in F. Gary Gray, the administrator of Straight Outta Compton to adviser the eighth blur in the series.
“We accept a administrator who is traveling to accompany the black out and accompany out the character,” said Diesel, who promises that the blur will be agnate to his antecedent accord with the director, the abrasive 2003 abstruseness A Man Apart.
The Fast and Furious films are accepted for their gravity-defying car races, but the flat wants to about-face the accent in the next installment.
“You can’t accumulate accepting every cine accept bigger and bigger stunts always and anytime and ever,” said Jeff Shell, administrator of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. “Eventually you accept to absolutely focus on the story. We’ll still accept big stunts but bringing in this amazing cheat is traveling to be great.”
For his part, Gray says the alternation will be a abandonment from the rap ballsy he just accomplished making. “I’m a fan of the cars and the apple and afterwards getting on Straight for four years, it was time to accept some fun.”
Shell admits that annihilation lasts forever, but he believes that afterwards added than a decade of movies, the success of the a lot of contempo chapter, Furious 7, indicates that the alternation is still growing its audience. It was the aboriginal blur in the alternation to top $1 billion and benefited from the advance of adopted markets like China, area it fabricated over $390 million.
“It’s at its aiguille now,” said Shell. “By the way, internationally something humans overlook is yes, this is Furious 7, but apparently bisected the humans about the apple that saw Furious 7 hadn’t apparent any of the added Fast and Furious films in the theater. It’s new in China to them, it’s new in Russia to them, it’s new in a lot of of Latin America, so this is a alternation that’s accelerating in my view, not slowing down.”
The a lot of contempo Fast and Furious blur had added resonance to longtime admirers of the series. Brilliant Paul Walker was dead in an off-set car blow while assembly was demography place. In the deathwatch of his death, Universal advised cancelling the film, afore ultimately chief to complete the activity by relying on physique doubles and agenda effects.
“We would never accept done this after all of Paul’s ancestors agreeing,” said Ron Meyer, vice-chairman of NBCUniversal. “We would not accept done it after everybody in the casting agreeing. We took abundant pains to accomplish abiding that afore we said, ‘yes lets go advanced with this film,’ we knew that we were accomplishing the appropriate thing. Not alone because there was a big investment involved, but because a adolescent man’s activity had been absent and he had a babe and accompany and family.”
Diesel praises the Universal aggregation for the abstemiousness it showed in ambidextrous with Walker’s death.
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