F9: The Fast Saga
Universal has inscribe screenwriter Daniel Casey to operate onFast & Furious 9 . Chris Morgan took over authorship responsibility on theFast & Furiousmovies in the mid-2000s , starting with 2006’sThe Fast and the Furious : Tokyo Drift(the third picture in the series afterFast and the Furiousand2 Fast 2 Furious ) . Since Morgan is busy writingtheFast & Furiousspinoff moviefeaturing Dwayne Johnson ’s Agent Hobbs and Jason Statham ’s Deckard Shaw , he will hand off the task of writing the ninth mainlineFast & Furiousinstallment to Casey or else .
Fast & Furiousthe series has its roots in the writing style blending street crime transportation that David Ayer , who write the originalFast and the Furiousin 2001 , has since made his gelt and butter as a filmmaker ( seeEnd of Watch , Bright , and so forth ) . Things protrude to alter for the series when Morgan teamed up with film director Justin Lin forTokyo Drift , a movie that ( literally ) madeFast & Furiousan international brand by shift the action to Japan . Lin went on to oversee the next three cinema in the series , transformingFast & Furiousinto the global juggernaut it is today .
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Lin is now officially returningto the series forFast & Furious 9 , as was late confirm by franchise star Vin Diesel . THRreports that Casey will indite the script for the celluloid , which is currently slot for a 2020 theatrical release . Not much else is known about the movie at the bit , but Diesel has hinted that Africa will serve as one of the exotic backdrops this time around . dissolute & Furious 9will also set the level forFast & Furious 10to end the main serial , accord to longtime producer Neal Moritz .
THRnotes that Casey ’s up and comer status helped land him the job of writing aFast & Furiousmovie . In addition to writing the Baker Brother ' sci - fi crime thrillerKin(a low - budget feat that has been lay down some stochasticity ahead of its vent this summertime ) , Casey write the script for the mystical superhero movieThe Heavy . Described as being a " subversive " take on the genre , The Heavyis being produced by J.J. Abrams ' Bad Robot and directed by Julius Avery , the film producer behind this fall’sOverlord(aka . the outre sounding WWII horror / thriller thatAbrams says is notCloverfield 4despite rumour to the contrary ) .
As nice as it will be to have Lin back in the music director ’s president , Fast & Furious 9should benefit from having a unlike writer tackling the playscript for a change . Morgan has written sixFast & Furiousmovies so far and , to be straight-from-the-shoulder , it really started to show in last year’sThe Fate of the Furious . Being a buddy movie , Johnson ’s spinoff will give Morgan a break from having to encounter yet another new slant on the series ' recipe and tolerate him to come back with saucy center forFast & Furious 10 , assume that ’s the plan .
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origin : THR