#FAST AND FURIOUS 9 MOVIE#
Lin is widely credited as the architect of the long-running movie series’s cinematic universe the director who saved F&F from all but certain straight-to-video oblivion by persuading Vin Diesel to return with an uncredited cameo in 2003’s Tokyo Drift, then shifted the narrative emphasis from illegal street racing to Family (with a capital F) and, eventually, saving humanity from evil. Literally: Members of the Fast family escape the constraints of Earth’s gravitational pull and travel to outer space - in a custom-reinforced, rocket-propelled Pontiac Fiero, no less. Outrunning and outgunning a nuclear submarine across Russia’s arctic plain? Crashing a souped up Dodge out of the nose of a cargo plane during takeoff? Check and double check.īut in the blockbuster series’s latest installment, F9 (which hit overseas theaters May 19 and arrives at North American multiplexes June 25), director Justin Lin blasts viewers’ already sky-high expectations for automotive adventure into the stratosphere. Careening a multi-ton bank vault through the streets of Rio de Janeiro? Check. Jumping a supercar from the nosebleed floors of one skyscraper to another? Check. Over the past 20 years, the multibillion-dollar-grossing Fast and Furious franchise has bent the laws of physics and tested the outer limits of moviegoer credulity, pulling off ever more fantastical flights of vehicular fancy with each new film. Warning: this post contains some space-related spoilers for F9.
“It’s one of the most sound action set pieces in our franchise.” “Going to space was not something I took for granted,” says director Justin Lin.
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