Fast & Furious: There Literally Might Be One Set In Space

If you watched the trailers for the latest Fast & Furious movie and felt your eyes roll irresistibly into the back of your head at the sight of a car chase featuring an actual submarine, the latest news about the most bonkers franchise going will delight you even more.

Thanks to an interview with Uproxx, we now know that there might be the possibility of a Fast & Furious movie literally going to space. As the franchise has gone on and all commitment to logic and realism has evaporated, suggestions of how they will continue to escalate have been posed periodically, and nothing seems to be off the table. Not even the inevitable trip outside of Earth's atmosphere.

Writer Chris Morgan has faced the question several times already, and yet he still refuses to say no to the idea - just that he won't do it unless he has a great idea to sell it. And wouldn't you know it, he now has one:

“Look, I get all versions of that question. I get, ‘Are you going to space?,’ and, ‘Please, God, tell me you’re not going to space because you’ll lose me if you do.’ … The only way I’d go to space is if I had something so good.”

Call Of Duty went to space, and still sold millions of copies. James Bond and The Muppets went to space, and fared slightly worse. But the Fast & Furious series is pretty much made to go into weirder places: it's already unrecognisable from the underground street racing concept it once was, and day-tripping to the moon probably wouldn't even be that much more of an escalation anyway.

And Morgan's idea would be exactly the right kind of ridiculous:

“What if Dom’s long lost brother, Richard B. Riddick showed up?”

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And why stop there? What about his long lost cousins Groot and the Iron Giant? Why only have two versions of Vin Diesel on screen when you could have a whole multiverse of them colliding?

It might sound difficult to get into, but Universal owns both properties, and with Columbia already proving how game studios are to experiment with the forthcoming (and somehow not yet cancelled) Men In Black/Jump Street cross-over, now is probably the time to believe.

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