Fast and Furious 9

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http://deadline.com/2016/02/fast-furious-8-9-10-release-dates-announced-1201695535/

Vin Diesel has taken to Instagram to confirm that The fast and Furious 9 will release at cinemas on 19th April 2019. The move to bi-annual releases means the cast will be busy on the series for the next few years fairly solidly. The ninth film is being considered to be the mid-point of a minor trilogy.

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/dwayne-johnson-may-not-return-in-furious-9/

Dwayne Johnson states that the feuding issues from Fast 8 are true and that though he's working on the spin-off he may not do Fast 9.

[Dogg Thang]

That would be a good thing. While the Rock makes every film better, sometimes you have to let go of the ones you love.

[Asura]

This whole "feud" thing is just kayfabe, I'm certain. It's easy to pretend to have a feud with some people when all of you are high-flying celebrities who spend most of their time filming movies on opposite sides of the globe.

[Neon Ignition]

If it's real though, I know which one I believe is most at fault...

[QualityChimp]

On this forum, some conduct themselves as stand up men and true professionals, while others don't. The ones that don't are too chicken s**t to do anything about it anyway. Candy asses.

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/ninth-fast-and-furious-heads-to-africa/

Vin Diesel has confirmed Justin Lin will return to direct this and Fast 10, he also indicated the ninth film will feature Africa. Because, sure, why not?

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/ninth-fa...ads-to-africa/

Vin Diesel has confirmed Justin Lin will return to direct this and Fast 10, he also indicated the ninth film will feature Africa. Because, sure, why not?

Smart move; it's a great song.

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/rodriguez-still-uncertain-over-fast-9-return/

Michelle Rodriguez is still coy about if she'll be in the next film. Though I'd expect the planned female focused spin-off will be how they convince her to commit to the final two main entries.

[Dogg Thang]

I'm not a big person for fan-seat driving but I would have preferred had she not come back to it at all. I don't think they gained all that much from bringing her back and I'd be happy to see new characters take her place. Same for many of the returning characters now that I think about it. It was fantastic in Fast Five but, from there, not everyone has justified their place in the movies.

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The trouble for her character, and presumably one of the reasons she was frustrated, is that Fast Four made her a plot device. They dragged it out fine enough with FF5 largely ignoring it then FF6 being based around it but since then she's there largely because it'd look daft to kill her off again so quickly (that and the lack of other decent female leads makes her a tool to balance out the gender skew a little bit). As much as she doesn't carry much weight in the main series, if they genuinely intend to end it with FF10, then it'd make sense to have her there till the end assuming they can come up with an ending that rules those characters out from further adventures.

I think that's why I expect her to lead the female spin-off as the franchise is incredibly low on female leads so I don't know who else they'd use if not her or Theron.

That being said, I'm not sure how interested I am in seeing those characters in a spin-off. This is the danger the franchise faces, few of the characters are compelling enough on their own steam to hold a film. Hobbs and Shaw makes sense enough, Vin in the main series is fine but after that?... nah, not unless that third spin-off series is all about Kurt Russell going rogue

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/dune-bond-25-fast-9-set-new-dates/

Now delayed several weeks till 22 May 2020

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/john-cena-up-for-fast-and-furious-9/

John Cena has joined the film

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http://www.darkhorizons.com/michelle-rodriguez-signs-for-ninth-furious/

Michelle Rodriguez has signed on for the next film

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https://deadline.com/2019/06/john-cena-officially-joins-fast-furious-9-1202629115/

John Cena has joined the film which I feel... is an indication... of something... about the quality we should expect. Honestly, looking back it's surprising just how much Fast 8 has shaken my fondness for these.