Here’s another absurd aspect of the Fast Saga that I love. You can rely on one more thing: the first trailer for each movie will be a mini-movie in its own right. The insane soap operatics, gravity-defying (and logic-defying) stunts, bad guys-gone-good cliches, thrillingly ludicrous action, and ever-changing title formats weren’t enough. The much-anticipated tenth (11th, counting Fast & Furious, Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) installment of the series is finally here in the form of the four-minute-long Fast X trailer. The grandeur of full-on Fast lunacy cannot be captured in a standard-length trailer. (Keep in mind that the trailer for F9: The Fast Saga was similarly oversized.)
The Fast X trailer is available and features everything from great balls of a real fire to Jason Momoa’s new bad guy Dante saying, “Boom!” to a ridiculous bit of Fast revisionary history. It also features an epic brawl between Letty and Cipher, Rita Moreno as Dom’s grandmother, new glimpses of Brie Larson’s upcoming Tess, and two helicopters crashing into Dom’s Dodge Charger and exploding in flames. It is both fantastic and absurd. View it now:
Blimey. Isn’t that looking… just insane? We learn that Momoa’s villain lurks beneath the vault during Fast Five’s Rio heist. Vin Diesel firmly declares, “You will never be able to break my family,” in the clip. Han and Deckard Shaw hook up in what is unquestionably going to be the most interesting subplot.
Additionally, there are many signs that it will be a Fast movie with a high body count (to be rolled back in Fast 11, should they need it, of course). It’s hard for these movies to keep improving, but the action here looks grand and theatrical. Fast X nevertheless manages to appear just as enormous as its predecessors.
Although he joined the project after production had started and Fast veteran Justin Lin left the project, Fast X marks Louis Leterrier’s first time behind the camera in the series. Lin and Dan Mazeau wrote the screenplay, and she continues to serve as producer and co-writer.
As usual, the cast for this one is ridiculously (or, Ludacris-ically) large. Hey, there’s more than one Fast family. Along with returning cast members such as Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Jordan Brewster, and Nathalie Emmanuel, this film also features Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, John Cena as Dom’s brother Jakob, Scott Eastwood as agent Little Nobody, Helen Mirren as the Shaw matriarch Queenie, Cardi B’s F9-appearing Leysa, and Michael Rooker as Buddy. In his Fast debut, Alan Ritchson plays the role of Reacher, and Charlize Theron reprises her role as Cipher. Given the size of the ensemble, a two-part finale is not surprising.
Fast X will accelerate into UK theatres on May 19. Buckle up and get ready. One bucket of Coronas will be delivered by whom?
