From its humble beginnings on the streets of Los Angeles, to the drift-ready streets of Tokyo, to its latest globe-trotting adventure that travels to Antarctica of all places,The Fast and the Furiousfranchise has seen and done quite a lot over 16 years. But there’s still a lot of territory left to explore; a good thing, too, since there are at least two more films that are gassed up and ready to go.
Just where will the ninth and tenthFast and Furiousfilms go? That’s anyone’s guess, but screenwriterChris Morgan, who has penned every movie in the franchise since and includingTheFast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, certainly has the inside track. Our own Steve Weintraub caught up with him during the press tour forThe Fate of the Furious, opening this Friday, to see just how far the franchise is willing to go.
HasFast and Furiousalready done everything there is to do and gone everywhere this is to go?
MORGAN: Hardly, there’s always more to do.
Which leads to the inevitable follow-up:
Exactly, like go to outer space. So my question for you is: Do you have any plans in 9 or 10 to go to outer space? Because I figure that’s the final frontier.
MORGAN: Did they already leak the moon racing sequence to you? [laughs] No. You know, it’s funny, a lot of the fans will always comment and say there’s three things you can’t do in this franchise: You cannot go to space, you cannot do time travel, and you cannot have dinosaurs [laughs]. But I gotta tell you, part of my brain just wants to find that perfect story that incorporated some element of that which was so undeniable it was like, “No, no, it’s cool. You had to do it.” We’ll probably never … never say never, but it is highly unlikely we’ll do those three things.
So whileFast and the Furious: Dino-Ridersprobably won’t happen anytime soon, there’s always the chance that the studio might throw a nod to fan theories/requests sometime in the future. Remember the short filmsThe Turbo Charged Prelude for 2 Fast 2 Furious(2003) andLos Bandoleros(2009)? It would certainly be fun to see theFast and Furiouscast and crew do a silly, futuristic take, even if it was just for laughs. In the real world, however, we’ll just have to settle for thisStar Warsreference:
MORGAN: Look, we already have Han’s last name in the franchise is Seoul-Oh, so Han Solo, there you go.
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