Fast & Furious 10 Dream Cast

 

Jason Momoa in talks for villain role in "Fast & Furious 10"

 

According to "The Hollywood Reporter", "Aquaman" star Jason Momoa is in final negotiations to play one of the villains in "Fast & Furious 10". Plot details are currently kept under wraps however production on the tenth instalment is set to begin this spring.

Momoa's casting is an exciting prospect for this franchise, which has seen the last few films draw in high profile performers Charlize Theron, Jason Statham and John Cena to play the franchise's primary antagonists. Interestingly, Momoa's casting also notes that script is still being written and Momoa;s role may fall somewhere in between the heroes and the villains. This would not be the first time that a character in the franchise had switched sides, Statham's Deckard Shaw become a protagonist by the eighth instalment "Fate of the Furious" and Cena's Jakob Toretto redeemed himself by the end of the most recent instalment "F9: The Fast Saga".

This would be an interesting idea for the story, given that Theron's Cipher escapes once again to terrorize the Toretto family again.

Momoa had been approached to appear in the franchise before in 2019's spin-off "Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw" alongside both Statham and Dwayne Johnson, but he was unable to appear due to scheduling conflicts. So looks like Diesel and team managed to reach out to him before Johnson could for "Hobbs & Shaw 2".

"Fast & Furious 10" will race into cinemas on May 19th, 2023 directed by Justin Lin with Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Nathalie Emmanuel and Sung Kang all expected to reprise their roles with both Cena and Theron also expected to return.  

John Cena would love to return for Fast & Furious 10

 

John Cena is open to the idea of returning for another Fast & the Furious movie, reprising his role as Jakob Toretto, the brother of Vin Diesel's Dom Toretto in the blockbuster series. Cena made his Fast debut in 2021's F9 as the latest foil for Dom and his team. The surprise reveal that Dom has a brother, and that his brother is involved in high-tech international crime, upended much of what viewers knew about the Fast franchise and its characters' histories. Now, it seems, the WWE star wants to keep that story going.

Though Jakob Toretto had never been mentioned in previous films, the character was retconned into F9 as the estranged brother to Dom and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster). The movie saw him working with Charlize Theron, returning as the criminal mastermind Cipher, in a plot to take control of the world's weapons systems. While he spends most of the movie as a villain, when he's betrayed by his cohorts at the end, Jakob ends up helping Dom and his team. Despite their skirmishes throughout the film's first two acts, much like Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw, Jakob becomes somewhat of an ally of the Fast crew by the movie's finale, leaving the door open for him to return in future installments. It seems the actor is eager to do so.

Cena is currently on a press tour to promote the HBO Max series, Peacemaker, and one of the stops brought him to Good Morning America. There, he was asked by host Michael Strahan if he'd be interested in returning for the next installment of the Fast franchise. Cena, decked out in his Peacemaker costume, said that he'd be thrilled to return for another film and is basically just waiting to be asked. 

"I can tell you this: you probably won't see me in Fast 10 dressed like [Peacemaker], but I really hope you see me in Fast 10. I know they're gearing up for production and I would love nothing more than to return to the franchise. I'm a big fan myself."

Cena may be eager to return to the Fast franchise, but the same can't be said for all of the series' previous stars. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has had a notoriously uneasy relationship with Vin Diesel since the former's franchise debut in 2011's Fast 5. He's declining to return for Fast 10. Despite Diesel making a public attempt to bury the hatchet between the two powerhouses, it seems like the core Fast series may have seen the last of Johnson as Luke Hobbs, though he's never publicly turned down the idea of a sequel to the Hobbs and Shaw spinoff.

It doesn't seem any public petitions are going to be necessary to get Cena back in the role. The Fast movies continue to grow more epic in scope and scale with each installment and show no signs of slowing down. The Fast & Furious team will growing and lets hope Cena gets the call. 

No plot details are confirmed for the tenth instalment, but will race into cinemas on May 19th, 2023 with Lin back in the directors chair and will no doubt star franchise regulars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Nathalie Emmanuel and Sung Kang with Cardi B expected to return afater appearing in "F9", Jason Statham is also possibly returning to the main series.

Original Furious 7 story details

 In a YouTube video from 2017, the YouTuber 6SpeedFletch showed in the video what the original idea for "Furious 7" was before Paul Walker had passed away in November 2013. 

The script, dated 08/09/2013, written by Chris Morgan shows how different the plans were and what was instore for the future of the franchise before that changed.

-Sean Boswell (played Lucas Black) was set the have a larger role in the story than just a brief cameo, he joins Dom, Brian and the rest of the team for Mr. Nobody's missions including the rescue of Ramsey. The script also shows him saving a rivalry with both Roman and Tej. In the end of the movie, he is fully accepted into Dom's family along with Ramsey. Interesting concept, but I think the real reason that this idea was dropped because Sean was so far removed at that point, and Dom already had his current team in place. They all worked together in Fast 5 and 6, and Dom didn't really need "just" a driver (which was all Sean was). Bringing him in kept the continuity, but there really was no need for him on the team in F7. Besides, no one but Han really knew him well.

-Hector had a bigger role in the story, he shows up during the team's final mission against Deckard Shaw.

-Brian is present with Dom when visiting Hobbs in the hospital.

 -There is subplot of Letty's character, when she visits the hospital, she has a flashback to the fourth movie, where she was presumed dead, but in a coma, but the flashback features Gisele (Gal Gadot) knowing that Letty was pregnant but lost the baby due to too much blood. Probably a good thing they nixed this idea as it is too dark and depressing.

-In the climax, Dom's fight against Deckard Shaw is more brutal, Dom's first shoots Shaw in the shoulder with his shotgun, the fight is more the same, but then Dom takes a severe blow from Deckard but refuses to give up still fighting but gets hit again which would take him down to his knees, Shaw then says "Just die Toretto" which causes Dom to rise up and take out Deckard and wins. Another change in this scene, when the building collapses, Shaw falls, but Dom his caught in the rubble does not end up throwing the grenades at Jakande's helicopter. The rest of that part of the ending is the same when Brian, Hobbs, Letty and the rest of the team find him the rubble.

-Instead of the film ending at the beach, in the original script shows the team (along with Mia, Ramsey and Sean) celebrating in a diner, with Hobbs showing up with a Secretary of Defense (a role said to have been written for Helen Mirren) offering Dom a clean record for stopping Deckard Shaw and recovering the God's Eye. He gives the Secretary the God's Eye, but throws the clean record away after he decides to go back being an outlaw with the rest of his team joining him much to Hobbs' disappointment. It is then revealed that what Dom gave the Secretary of Defense was not the real God's Eye, but a music video featuring Roman. It is then revealed that Dom had the real God's Eye and uses it to go on his next adventure with him and Brian discussing where they should go next with Letty telling them to "let fate decide".

-In a post-credits scene, it is revealed that Shaw had survived the rubble and is in a room with four other people who revealed to be past villains of the franchise, Johnny Tran from the first movie, Carter Verone from the second movie, Braga from the fourth and henchman Zizi from the fifth. A mysterious woman (said to be a possible cameo from Charlize Theron) then walks in telling them to get to work indicating that they were assembled to take down Dom, Brian and their crew.

These were interesting ideas but I felt that the final result of Furious 7 worked better, but that ending would been interest hadn't Paul Walker died, but I guess we'll never see these idea come aboard for the next instalments.

Dwayne Johnson says no to "Fast & Furious 10"

 

A month or so back, Vin Diesel took to Instagram to publicly invite Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson back in the fold for the upcoming Fast & Furious 10.

Johnson hasn't starred on-screen with Diesel in the franchise since 2017's "The Fate of the Furious", when he veered off into the Hobbs & Shaw spin-off with Jason Statham, who plays Deckard Shaw in the franchise.

However, during a recent interview with CNN, Johnson put his thoughts about returning to work with Diesel very bluntly, saying:

"I was very surprised by Vin's recent post. This past June, when Vin and I actually connected not over social media, I told him directly - and privately - that I would not be returning to the franchise.

"I was firm yet cordial with my words and said that I would always be supportive of the cast and always root for the franchise to be successful, but that there was no chance I would return. I privately spoke with my partners at Universal as well, all of whom were very supportive as they understand the problem.

"Vin's recent public post was an example of his manipulation. I didn't like that he brought up his children in the post, as well as Paul Walker's death. Leave them out of it. We had spoken months ago about this and came to a clear understanding. My goal all along was to end my amazing journey with this incredible Fast & Furious franchise with gratitude and grace. It's unfortunate that this public dialogue has muddied the waters.

"Regardless, I'm confident in the 'Fast' universe and its ability to consistently deliver for the audience, and I truly wish my former co-stars and crew members the best of luck and success in the next chapter."

Johnson is currently still signed on for "Hobbs & Shaw 2" with Jason Statham, who (slight spoilers) appeared in the mid-credits sequence of Fast & Furious 9, indicating that Statham will be rejoining the main series for the tenth outing.

At the time of writing, Fast & Furious 10: Part One is due to arrive in cinemas in May 2023, with Part Two likely to arrive in 2024, while Hobbs & Shaw 2 has no current set release date.

Vin Diesel wants Dwayne Johnson's Hobbs to return for the final two chapters

 

In a recent Instagram post by Vin Diesel, the 54-year old action star is hoping to persuade Dwayne Johnson to return to the main series in "Fast 10", however back in July, Johnson himself has stated that he would not be part of the cast of both Fast 10 and 11 and instead plans to return for a sequel to "Hobbs & Shaw". If Johnson does return, then lets hope we get Johnson vs. Cena, that would be incredible. Fast & Furious 10 is set to race into cinemas in April 2023 through no details have been announced, but it has been stated that the next films will begin shooting back-to-back in January with Justin Lin back in the directors chair and main players like Diesel, Michelle Rodriguz, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster and Sung Kang all returning.

Fast & Furious 10 to introduce new members to the Family?

 

According to the website WeGotThisCovered, the next "Fast" movie will introduce new characters to the team. 

The tenth installment in the franchise will race into theatres in April 2023, and as has been the case with every entry since Fast Five, we can expect the ranks to swell even further. Looking at the core cast of characters to have become regulars, the family now consists of Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, Jordana Brewster’s Mia, Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty, Ludacris’ Tej, Tyrese’s Roman, Nathalie Emmanuel’s Ramsey, Sung Kang’s returning Han, and now John Cena’s Jakob if that beefy handshake at the end of F9 is any indication.

On top of that, you could realistically include Kurt Russell’s Mr. Nobody, Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw and Helen Mirren’s Queenie as part of the crew, while Tokyo Drift trio Lucas Black, Bow Wow and Jason Tobin also dropped by for a scene or two. And yet, you didn’t even notice Scott Eastwood was missing as Little Nobody, did you? For shame.

Expect some more never-before mentioned siblings or new characters to join the team, maybe we'll see the never before mentioned brother of Brian O'Conner, who knows.