Fast X Actors Begged Director to Keep Them Alive In Unusual Way
No one wants to die at the end of a franchise that has become legendary.
Gradually, the Fast and the Furious franchise, which originally focused on racing, mutated into a large-scale soap opera with cars, combining Mission: Impossible, Santa Barbara, and Cars.
Fast & Furious is a series of spectacular, loud and dynamic scenes-attractions in different countries, between which simple plot lines, playful dialogues and moralizing toasts of the protagonist are scrammed.
Directors and writers have changed, but the franchise recipe has remained the same over the years. And that recipe brought in a lot of money, which guaranteed every next installment.
However, the franchise seems to be coming to an end, and what do the creators of long-running franchises usually do at the end? That's right, they like to kill off characters.
Director Louis Leterrier admitted that some actors were so reluctant to have their characters killed that they begged him not to do it in an unusual way: "The actors had to write letters to beg me to keep their characters alive, and I deemed them worthy."
The tenth installment of the franchise brought back many characters that many viewers had forgotten about. There are more characters in Fast X than in The Avengers, but most of them appear just to show off.
Among the incomplete but important subplots are Jacob Toretto with his nephew Brian and Letty with Cipher. The former ended up in a 1990s road movie, the latter in a prison action movie.
Of course, the main success of Fast X is the cheerfully sadistic fashionista Dante Reyes.
Dante braids his hair, dresses in colorful silk suits, licks blood off knives, strokes pistols, grimaces, carries wads of dollars in designer handbags.
In one scene he paints the nails of corpses, in another he sings opera arias and blows up the Vatican. The charming villain doesn't even want to take over the world – he just wants to make Dominic Toretto suffer.
Vin Diesel hinted that the fans still have one or two more movies to see. We hope that the director listens to the actors and that as many characters as possible get the happy ending they deserve.
Source: Collider