Fast and Furious Sequels Speed Ahead
By Alex Suskind
Posted Oct 21st 2011


Fast and the Furious 6 and 7 have just hit the gas pedal on their production time!

Another Fast sequel was inevitable -- especially after the last film in the franchise grossed over $600 million worldwide -- but the LA Times reports that Fast 6 may not hit its 2013 release date.



Universal is thinking about shooting the sixth and seventh films back to back and having them follow one story line. Therefore, director Justin Lin -- who's directed the last three Fast flicks -- would not have time to edit the sixth before the seventh was ready for production, which would likely mean a later release date for both movies.

No word on what the story will be for the next two sequels, just that screenwriter Chris Morgan is currently hard at work on developing one.



The cast has not been set in stone, however, Vin Diesel and The Rock will reportedly return.

Action star Jason Statham has also been rumored to join.

http://blog.moviefone.com/2011/10/21/fast-and-furious-sequel-the-rock-vin-diesel/

Glad to hear that. The last one was very good. The last one made $600 million? Wow that's a lot of money.

Glad to hear that. The last one was very good. The last one made $600 million? Wow that's a lot of money.

Fast Five's domestic total was $209,837,675.
Overseas total was $414,500,000.
Together that's $624,337,675 worldwide.

Vin Diesel Confirms Sixth Fast and Furious Movie in the Works
12/20/2011
by Borys Kit


The sixth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise will be split into two movies.

Vin Diesel, the star and a producer of Universal’s decade-long franchise, said that during the planning process of the new movie, the Fast and Furious creative team, which includes director Justin Lin and screenwriter Chris Morgan, realized that they would need a seventh movie to tell their story.

"The sixth and seventh are being written simultaneously," he said.





"With the success of this last one, and the inclusion of so many characters, and the broadening of scope, when we were sitting down to figure out what would fit into the real estate of number six, we didn’t have enough space," Diesel told THR during the photoshoot for its Rule Breakers 2011 portfolio.

"We have to pay off this story, we have to service all of these character relationships, and when we started mapping all that out it just went beyond 110 pages," Diesel explained. "The studio said, ‘You can’t fit all that story in one damn movie!’"





Diesel did not reveal details on whether the two movies would be two-parters or two standalone movies.

The actor returned to the franchise with the series’ fourth outing after appearing in an end-of-movie cameo in the third movie. The move proved so popular that it paved the way for the return of Diesel and original star Paul Walker.



The movies have proved unexpectedly resilient, something that may have to do with the themes of family and brotherhood, according to the creative team.

"It’s not about the action and the cars, which initially appealed to me when I was 25 years old," said Walker. "Because if that’s all it was, it would have fallen off a long time ago."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/vin-diesel-seventh-fast-furious-movie-275800