Fast & Furious Female Spin-off Inches Closer to Reality With Brie Larson Casting
The end of the Fast & Furious franchise as we know it may be just around the corner with two installments left, but don't forget about various spinoffs.
There was one in 2019 – Hobbs & Shaw – and it looks like we might get an all-female movie pretty soon. At least that's what Universal Pictures film head Donna Langley has told Business Insider. Langley admitted that the Fast & Furious franchise already has a lot of female characters and even more are coming in Fast X.
"I would love to see a female Fast. So would Vin [Diesel]. We have so many great and amazing female characters in our franchise and now there's the new addition of Brie Larson to add to the incredible roster. I would love to see us do a female Fast," she said.
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges who inhabited Tej Parker for the Fast & Furious sequence also supported the idea saying that "the girls need a spinoff."
"That's who needs a spinoff. All of the badass, kick-ass women in this film. That's who deserves it," the actor and rapper claimed last summer shortly after F9 release.
The chances that we'll see an all-female movie are actually quite high, now that Brie Larson who's best known for her portrayal of Carol Danvers in the MCU entered the franchise as Tess in Fast X.
So who are those character we've seen in the Fast & Furious sequence over the years Donna Langley mentioned, who could potentially make it to an all-female spinoff?
Well, there's Jordana Brewster's Mia Toretto, Michelle Rodriguez' Letty Ortiz, Nathalie Emmanuel's Ramsey, who once said having a "badass girl movie" would be cool. Charlize Theron who played Cipher would love to join in as well, provided Helen Mirren (Deckard Shaw's mother Magdalene) is among the cast too. It looks like we're all set!
But what do the Fast & Furious fans think about the idea?
One of the Fast & Furious fans on Reddit says it's great that the producers are starting to roll out the extended cinematic universe for the franchise. But not everybody agrees.
Apart from clichés and explicitly sexist women-don't-know-how-to-drive and women-can't-parallel-park comments, some redditors believe women are "worth more than another sh*tty remake of a hit movie with an all-female cast. Women are worth their own original stories."
This take is an apparent reference to the all-female Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which failed miserably at the box office inflicting an estimated $70 million loss on Sony.
The first part of Fast X is scheduled to premiere on May 19, 2023.