Fast & Furious 8 Announced

Who would have thought that Fast & The Furious would become one of the most successful film series in history

by Steve Withers
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Fast & Furious 8 Announced
This hardly comes as a surprise given that Fast & Furious 7 has already made over $1 billion at the worldwide box office in just two weeks but there will be another instalment.
Vin Diesel, who plays Dominic Toretto in the film series, announced at Cinemacon that there will be a Fast & Furious 8/Fast 8/Furious 8 (delete as applicable) and that it will be released on the 14th of April 2017. Obviously this time around Paul Walker's Brian O'Conner will be missing but the rest of the crew should be available as long as Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson can juggle his increasingly hectic schedule. We can expect to see Kurt Russell's Mr. Nobody again and there are already rumours that the producers would like to bring back Eva Mendes' character from 2 Fast 2 Furious. In fact Mendes appeared in a post credit sequence at the end of Fast Five, so they have already established that she knows The Rock's character Hobbs.

The popularity of the Fast & Furious films defies all logic with the latest instalment breaking records everywhere as it rushed to become Universal Pictures's first billion dollar movie. It has also become the most successful film ever in China and looks set to pull in over $1.5 billion, which could make it the fourth most successful film of all time after The Avengers, Titanic and Avatar. At the start of 2015, everyone thought that the box office champ this year would either be Avengers: Age of Ultron or Star Wars - Episode VII: The Force Awakens, but no one thought it might be the sixth sequel to a moderately successful film from 2001 that was basically a remake of Point Break with cars! Sometimes it can be a strange world...
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