Fast Five has been a massive hit with audiences raking in almost $600 million at the global box office, so therefore it’s a no-brainer that Universal has already locked in a release date for the next installment. ‘Fast and Furious 6’ is now scheduled to arrive in two year’s time – specifically May 24th, 2013. While director Justin Lin was expected to be making a ‘Terminator’ flick, Arnie’s marital woes may have ended those hopes.
With another film locked in the studios are saying that it will reunite the series’ ensemble cast ‘for their most dangerous adventure yet.‘ Vin Diesel will return to produce and star alongside Paul Walker and Jordana Brewster. Dwayne Johnson came to Universal interested in joining the franchise, so it’s likely that he’ll be integral to the action in Fast Six – besides who else can rumble with Diesel?
The end credits also set up the next movie (spoiler) with Eva Mendes in a surprise cameo that as many would know has her character showing Hobbs proof of a new heist and photographic evidence that Michelle Rodriguez is back from the grave and somehow behind it. While this twist looks just like a sequel ploy, Universal chairman Adam Fogelson has indicated it was the intention to set up the next story in this way:
But we’ve absolutely left perfect room for where we want to go with this franchise. I don’t want to give away too much, but there are a lot of surprises at the end of Fast Five involving one of the biggest characters of the previous movies which will set up the franchise now as a series of heist action films.
Fast Five did what other movies rarely do by shifting it’s genre, fusing street racing antics with a bank heist story, and this could be the beginning of new trilogy of flicks. When Diesel showed up at the end of ‘Toyko Drift’ it opended the door for a new series of films, however Universal head Fogelson was concerned that the genre could only be exploited for so long. The studio honchos agreed that future installments had to include other story threads and be less about street racing, Fogelson said:
So if these movies were still about street racing, there was probably a ceiling on how many people would buy tickets. We wanted to see if we could raise it out of about racing and make car driving ability just a part of the movie, like those great chases in The French Connection, The Bourne Identity, The Italian Job…
Fogelson explains that with car company Dodge as a partner in the flicks:
Our strategy behind one of the biggest bets we’ve ever made is that the business has gone so far towards CG action every weekend, that we really believe creating a movie with real action and real cars will be amazing stuff to people excited by seeing something real.
Check out the videos while making Fast Five, which show how the Dodge motor company is partnering with the series.
Fast and Furious 6 is set to open May 24th, 2013.
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