Vin Diesel has built up a substantial following through his Facebook – more than twenty seven million people and counting, you have to admit, is pretty immense.
He has a great track-record of sharing information with his loyal fans through his page, and the latest news he’s given us is absolutely fantastic, teasing the possibility that the sequel to this year’s explosive Fast Five will come in the form of not one but two more films in the franchise!
“Was just talking to my friend Paul… 10 years, a decade of heart put into this franchise. There is so much story… might not be able to be contained to one film.”
Fans of the films will of course recognise that Paul as Paul Walker, the second half of the series’ top two leading men, with each having starred in four of the five films to date (Walker led number two but wasn’t seen in Tokyo Drift, whilst Diesel skipped 2 Fast 2 Furious but had a cameo in the third).
Word now comes from Twitch, via Collider, that not only confirms that suggestion of there being at least two more films to come, but says that there are plans to shoot the two films back-to-back in Europe, with shooting expected to take place throughout 2012. And guess who’s just starting early talks to join the film.
None other than our own Jason Statham, the ridiculously brilliant star of films like Guy Ritchie’s Snatch, Crank, The Transporter, and most recently Killer Elite. Fast Five saw the cast of the franchise get an excellent addition in the form of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and expanding the cast by one more to include Statham in at least one of the next two movies would be an awesome move.
Fast Five was a transition film that began the process of moving the series from being cars-focused towards the heist genre, and Fast Six and Seven should be looking to cement that notion, being based in the latter. The transition in Fast Five was done both effortlessly and brilliantly, and I cannot wait to see what director Justin Lin, Diesel, Walker, and everyone else involved have in store for us.
Fast Six has a release date scheduled for 24th May, 2013, so we’ve still got just over a year and a half to wait to see what happens next, but if you happened to catch the mid-credits scene at the end of Fast Five, you’ll know that they’ve got a fantastic ace up their sleeve, and I am dying to find out how they’re going to bring back that familiar face from the past.
