We know that the Fast & Furious franchise is nearing its end, though it's hard to believe the IP will remain on the shelf for long given what a box office draw the series has been for Universal Pictures.
Could Tenet director Christopher Nolan be the one who reboots it? While the filmmaker lists the likes of Stanley Kubrick and Michael Mann among his inspirations, it appears he appreciates a good popcorn flick as well. Talking on the Happy Sad Confused Podcast, the prolific director shared his love of the Fast & Furious movies.
"I’m sort of an original recipe [guy]; I mean, the Rob Cohen original, but I’ve got a very soft spot for Tokyo Drift actually," Nolan confessed. "And then the skill as Justin Lin’s iterations, as they got crazier and bigger and crazier and bigger, they became something else, but something else kind of fun."
"The fun thing about those movies is, even as they’ve gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, as sequels have to do, everyone always complains that sequels get bigger but we’re the people making sequels get bigger, we do want them bigger," he continued. "You don’t want them smaller. It’s the Alien 3 lesson that Fincher learned. You can do it but it’s not going to make anybody happy, even though personally I love that film, a lot more than he does in fact."
So, a Fast & Furious fan and one of the few people out there who loved Alien 3. We're certainly learning a lot about Nolan during the pandemic, though his hatred of HBO Max is perhaps most noteworthy.
Do you think Nolan would be a good fit for Fast & Furious or, failing that, a new Alien movie?
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