Here’s another ridiculous thing to love about the Fast Saga. As if the insane soap-operatics, gravity-defying (and logic-defying) stunts, bad-guys-gone-good tropes, thrillingly outlandish action, and ever-changing title formats weren’t enough, you can now count on one more thing: the first trailer for each film is going to be a mini-movie in its own right. The Fast X trailer has just arrived, revealing our first proper look at the much-anticipated tenth (11th, including Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) chapter in series – and it’s four minutes long. A regular-length trailer simply cannot contain the majestic of full-on Fast madness. (Remember, too, that the F9: The Fast Saga trailer was also super-sized.)
Not only is the Fast X trailer here, but it’s got everything: great balls of actual fire; Jason Momoa’s new villain Dante saying, “Boom!”; a ludicrous bit of revisionary Fast-history; beefs that can only be solved by racing in colourful cars; an epic brawl between Letty and Cipher, Rita Moreno as Dom’s abuela; fresh glimpses of Brie Larson’s incoming Tess; and two helicopters taking a fiery tumble after tangling with Dom’s Dodge Charger. It is epic and ridiculous. Watch it now:
Blimey. Doesn’t that look… just bonkers. For one, we get the revelation that Momoa’s villain was, in fact, hiding just behind the vault during Fast Five’s Rio heist. We get Vin Diesel defiantly stating: “You will never be able to break my family.” We get Deckard Shaw teaming up with Han, in what’s surely set to be the coolest subplot. And, we get plenty of hints that this’ll be a Fast film with a bodycount (to be rolled back in Fast 11, should they so need, of course). And to their credit, the action does look suitably epic and bombastic here – it’s tough for these films to keep outdoing themselves, but Fast X somehow looks just as gigantic as its predecessors.
For Fast X, Louis Leterrier steps behind the camera for the first time in the series – though he hopped aboard after shooting had already begun and Fast veteran Justin Lin exited the project. Lin remains a producer and also a co-writer, having penned the screenplay alongside Dan Mazeau.
As ever, the cast is ludicrously (or, Ludacris-ly) huge for this one. Hey, the Fast family is an extended one. Beyond the likes of Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Ludacris, Tyrese Gibson, Jordan Brewster, Sung Kang, and Nathalie Emmanuel, this one brings back John Cena as Dom’s brother Jakob, Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, Scott Eastwood as agent Little Nobody, Helen Mirren as Shaw matriarch Queenie, Cardi B’s F9-cameoing Leysa, and Michael Rooker’s Buddy. Plus, Reacher himself Alan Ritchson is here in his Fast debut, and Charlize Theron’s Cipher is evidently back too. It’s an ensemble so big, no wonder they need a two-part finale.
Buckle up and prepare for Fast X to rev into UK cinemas on 19 May. Who’s bringing the bucket of Coronas?