An All-Female Fast & Furious Spin-Off Is In The Works
The Fast and Furious franchise looks set to receive a second big screen spin-off, and it’ll focus primarily on female cast members. Speaking to MTV (see below video at the 5min 22 sec mark), Vin Diesel said, “I have created a female spin-off,” adding, “That script comes in next month, so we will see”.
That’s far from confirmation, but we’re fully expecting this to become a reality. Michelle Rodriguez - who plays Letty Ortiz, one of the franchise’s original leading women - said a few years ago she could quit F&F over its portrayal of women, following which there was a noticeable increase in strong female characters being written in the series.
This has been offset by Hobbs & Shaw, a spin-off focusing on two of the most overtly macho, testosterone-fuelled characters in the F&F world, but the franchise does now have a wealth of options to make up an all-female main cast.
Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster (Mia Toretto) would almost certainly feature, and could be joined by Nathalie Emmanuel (Ramsey, now a series regular), Vanessa Kirby (Hattie Shaw), Helen Mirren (Magdalene Shaw) and perhaps cast members from further back like Devon Aoki (Suki). And don’t discount the prospect of Gal Gadot’s Giselle being resurrected - given the reappearance of Han in F9, the creators of F&F are clearly fond of bringing people back from the dead.
In the MTV interview, Rodriguez and Emmanuel both express interest in the idea of an all-female spin-off, with the latter hoping for a “Charlie’s Angels-type vibe”. Rodriguez says she would want Charlize Theron to appear in any such spin-off, and this being F&F, the fact that her character Cipher is currently a baddie doesn’t preclude her from switching sides to join the ‘family’.
As for when this film, if green-lit, would be released, we can’t be sure. It’d have to be after the 10-entry original ‘saga’ concludes, however, with the final instalment due in April 2021. Fast & Furious 9 meanwhile is out on 22 May.
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Wow.. more work shit.. it will flop just like Harley Quinn is. Because most veiwers of this type of stuff are guys. (Cars and super heros) so stripping guys from these moves in some weird push for equal rights that doesn’t include men.. (someone tell me the last movey they can remember that didn’t have women in it?
So anyway.. it will likely flop and feminists will blame men because…… Reasons.
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Being honest they need to look at this and avoid the mistakes of what happened with Ghostbusters, if anyone remembers that 2016 film….its a delicate balance….
Because that went very well for Ghostbusters 2016…
Seems we are both on the same wavelength! (at the time of posting I made reference to Ghostbusters 2016 and I think this post was made a little later about the same thing)
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Lmao it’s not the same situation at all, with Ghostbusters they completely replaced the usual crew with women, while for this it’s just a spinoff. It’s not like they’re looking to replace the usual F&F crew or anything, they’re just looking to make a spinoff. Are all people around here getting that triggered over a spinoff because it dares to include women in something else other than a support role?
100$ this will fail.
I don’t know a single guy who wants to see all female F&F, while also I don’t know a single female that likes F&F
So you’re basing the worldwide commercial viability of a film on… some people you know?
I like F&F. My sister also likes F&F. 🤷🏻♀️
The serie has been forked for a while especially since the last job wasn’t the last job and characters can invoke shenlong to respawn into cars we are not sure even received a ecu remap.
Ahhh yes… The Quick to Jump to Conclusions and Furious About Something that Happened Two Months Ago
Equality for women used to mean putting women on the same footing as men. Now equality for women means pushing men completely out of the picture. That doesn’t seem very equal.
An all-female spin-off isn’t exactly “pushing men completely out of the picture” though, is it? Not when you consider F&F up until now has been a bit of a sausage fest. You only have to look up the Bechdel test to see just how skewed towards dudes the movie industry as a whole is - the odd female-focused film isn’t some assault on manhood as some like to make out…
I mean hey, they don’t make anything related to what they’re known for any longer, so does it even matter?
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If they take their time and create a good script they have a good shot at a good movie. If they are just making an all female movie with no plot reason to do so, it’s doomed.