With F9, the Fast & Furious series goes to outer space for the first time, and Vin Diesel recounted his initial reaction when he heard the news that the movie was going to the final frontier.
"Oh my God, I had so many mixed emotions," Vin Diesel said to Entertainment Weekly. "Then I had this Cheshire grin on my face. Like it's so bold and blatantly outrageous. And you go, 'No, no, no, no, no!' And then you go, 'Wait a minute, maybe, yes, yes, yes, yes!' I was like, 'If we pull it off, we'll pull it off. And if not, we tried.'"
While fans had long expressed a desire to see the Fast & Furious saga enter the cosmos, franchise mainstays Chris "Ludacris" Bridges and Michelle Rodriguez finally confirmed in separate interviews last year that the series would go to outer space with F9. The film's final trailer further teased this development by depicting characters Roman Pearce and Taj suiting up in homemade oxygen suits inside of a ramshackle rocket car.
Though the Fast & Furious franchise is known for bending the laws of physics and science, F9 director Justin Lin made sure to consult scientists before taking the characters to the stars. "I'm on the phone with scientists, learning about fuel and physics," Lin explained. "It was great, having the scientists on the other line going, 'wait, what? What are you trying to do?' I love it."
Directed by Justin Lin, F9 stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron. The film arrives in theaters June 25.
Source: Entertainment Weekly