The newly-christened Fast Saga has traveled an awful lot of miles since its earliest days as a story about illicit street racing based on a Vibe magazine article titled “Racer X” to its current status as the ninth-highest-grossing film series of all time, closely tailgating the X-Men series, which it will pass when Fast & Furious 9 debuts this Memorial Day weekend.
The chronologically-complex franchise finally launched its first spinoff last year, teaming antagonists-turned-antiheroes Luke Hobbs (a Diplomatic Security Service agent who first appeared in 2011’s Fast Five) and Deckard Shaw (a rogue United Kingdom Special Forces agent who first cameoed in 2013’s Fast & Furious 6) on a CIA assignment to prevent the release of a genetically-engineered super-virus by a cybernetically-enhanced operative.
Hobbs & Shaw, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, is lightyears removed from the franchise’s comparatively humble beginnings, and now our sources – the same ones that told...
The chronologically-complex franchise finally launched its first spinoff last year, teaming antagonists-turned-antiheroes Luke Hobbs (a Diplomatic Security Service agent who first appeared in 2011’s Fast Five) and Deckard Shaw (a rogue United Kingdom Special Forces agent who first cameoed in 2013’s Fast & Furious 6) on a CIA assignment to prevent the release of a genetically-engineered super-virus by a cybernetically-enhanced operative.
Hobbs & Shaw, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, is lightyears removed from the franchise’s comparatively humble beginnings, and now our sources – the same ones that told...
- 2/2/2020
- by Anthony Fuchs
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