Caffeinated Clint
Reuniting with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker
Had my glass to the door today and heard through the pine surface the words “Brewster”, “Fast”, “Furious” and “I’d buy that for a dollar”. Ok, maybe I didn’t hear the last batch of words… but I did get wind today that Jordana Brewster is in talks to reprise her role as Mia, Dominic’s (Vin Diesel) sister in ‘’The Fast and the Furious 4’’.
The character of Mia would be the third cast member from Rob Cohen’s original to join the cast of the Justin Lin-directed sequel. And as far as I can tell, she’d be the last of them.
Where’s Michelle Rodriguez’s character you ask? Well, that’s getting into spoiler territory.
Read on if you want to know…. Don’t if you like to go into movies ‘fresh’.
OK, still there?
Well, ya see, Mia re-enters the picture on less than pleasant circumstances. Seems a certain lover of her brother’s [from the first film] may have –literally – crashed and burned (Michelle Rodriguez should really learn to put the bottle down when she’s cruising at such speeds), and Mia’s been asked to deliver her precious car to him (awwww).
Mia, of course, fell in love with undercover agent Brian (Paul Walker) in the first film. She reunites with him here, if only to ask ‘Why did you let my brother go?’
By letting Dominic go [at the end of the first picture], Brian’s got himself into some knee-high shit soup. When the film begins, the young agent has been doing time – after the authorities discovered the truth about Dom’s disappearance, and the part Brian played in that.
In a sort-of twist on “The Rock” – or even Walker’s recent film, “Bobby Z” – Brian makes a deal with the authorities. He’ll help stop a crime boss known as Braga, whose importing heroin (with the assistance of some hot-car driving bad-asses, of course), if they uncuff him. With the assistance of an informant named James Park (who Dominic was also after – – — it’s at his pad that Brian and Dom reunite, I believe), Brian wins a spot on a street race that Braga’s number.1 man, Jorge Campos is going to be at. He makes friends with Campos (and therefore Braga); wins a spot on his tag-team (importing heroin) and gets Dominic a gig too.
Just one other thing Brian wants from the authorities: “we get Braga, we let [Dominic] Toretto walk”.
Like the first film, this one’s very reminiscent of “Point Break” – and the writers know it. In one scene, they even write it into the script, that a foot chase in Chinatown is very “Point Break” like.
Whoever thought filmmakers would be using “Point Break” as the golden temple at which they should all bow?
Anyway, Jordana Brewster’s in negotiations as we speak – I’m sure she’ll be quite happy to jump aboard [the film], not only because the first film is one of the highlights of her CV, but because she seems to be as free as H20 at the moment, Her TV pilot “Mr & Mrs Smith” hasn’t been picked up, and she hasn’t booked a film since last year’s “Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Beginning”, so this gig should help weight-down her purse a bit more come Chrissy.
