LuckilyVin Diesel's a strong guy, because he is feeling the "weight that comes with delivering [the] finale" ofFast & Furious.
It's been a longer than usual road to the big screen for the nextFastfilm,Fast Forever, which is set to be the last of the main series. Planned as the first of a two-part finale,Fast Xarrived in 2023, but, after disappointing box office returns and a lack of fan enthusiasm, it took three years forFast Forevertofinally land the release dateof March 17, 2028. And now with two years before the end, Diesel is opening up about the race to the finish line.
"There is a particular weight that comes with delivering a finale,"Diesel wrote Thursday on Instagram. "A responsibility you feel in your chest, to everyone who gave something to get here, to the audience that stayed. You don't take that lightly. You take it as fuel. And when you find out you're going back to Los Angeles… back to the streets where it all began, something clicks into place. The city that made the first film feel alive, still here, still holding. Coming home to close it out right. That's not logistics. That's a gift."
In the same post, Diesel shared a picture of himself listening intently to Mike Lesslie, who Diesel revealed will be doing a rewrite on theFast Foreverscript. Lesslie's credits includeThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & SnakesandNow You See Me: Now You Don't, and he was previously reported to be the choice towrite the first X-Men moviefor theMarvel Cinematic Universe.
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Diesel posited thatFasthas outlasted "trends, cynics, and time itself" because countlessFastfamily members have "poured themselves into something bigger than any one individual." In talking with Lesslie, Diesel says "that same feeling returned. A story with something real beating inside it."
Lesslie will have some heavy-lifting to do.Fast Xended on a bonkers amount of cliffhangers, from a plane crash that left the fate of four main characters up in the air, to Dom (Diesel) and his son being stuck in an exploding dam. Making matters even tougher,Universal reportedly demandeda drastic budget decrease forForever(Fast Xcost about $340 million) — and that is in line with Diesel promising a return to the street racing roots in Los Angeles.
Now, how the hell do you get from an exploding dam in Portugal to Dom having a Corona and tuna sandwich back in his Echo Park house?
Good luck, and welcome to the family, Michael Lesslie.
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