Vin Diesel Reckons Fast 8 Has A Shot At The Oscars
It’s pretty much guaranteed that a new Fast and Furious film will make an enormous amount of money at the box office. After all, the last one - Furious 7 - took a staggering $1.5 billion off the back of its £190 million budget. But there’s one thing we definitely don’t expect from an F&F movie: an Oscar. Unless of course you’re Vin Diesel.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Diesel predicted that Fast 8 would nab director F. Gary Gray the Academy Award he missed out on for biopic Straight Outta Compton. “I think he went into making this movie with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder, going ‘Oh, really? Ok. Now I’m going to take the biggest saga in the world, and I’m about to throw Oscars at you’…Wait till you see what he does!” He said.
We should expect a different tone for this film, too. “Fast 8 is different. It’s very dark…My character is conflicted in a way that is really going to shock you. He’s coming off of a lot of emotion from [Furious] 7 and the loss that 7 represents,” Diesel explained.
All this sound familiar? That’s because before Furious 7 was released, Vin Diesel insisted it would “probably win best picture at the Oscars.” And we all know how that turned out.
Still, you never know…
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I laughed so hard when i read that.
If fnf 8 wins an oscar i will set my car on fire
I’m holding you to that.
I don’t think he understands the Oscars at all. It’s not even just about being the best in some category, it’s a particular type of role/movie/etc that win Oscars. Fast 8 could be the best car-action film the world has ever seen, but such films will never be Oscar-worthy.
The F&F movies haven’t been good since the 5th film.
Fast and Furious 6, 7 and 8. More guns than gear shifts.
I really hope that they go back to their roots of street racing and not guns blazing million dollar supercars flying off of buildings and beating each other to death with a torque wrench