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With the “Fast and Furious” films constantly defying logic and trumpeting their ridiculousness with every new outing, it’s occasionally joked that eventually Vin Diesel’s Dominic Torreto and his team of pedal-pressing hoons will steer some sort of high-powered assemblage into outer space.
Joke no more?
At the junket for “Fast and Furious” spin-off “Hobbs and Shaw” – which opens this week across the globe – writer Chris Morgan suggested that a “Fast and Furious” film set in space is not out of the question.
“I would say nothing is off limits as long as we can stay on the right side of keeping the audience engaged”, he tells Polygon. “Nothing’s out of the question. Absolutely nothing. It just has to be cool and it has to be good. You know, that’s the thing.”
As far as Morgan is concerned, the only no-go zone for him is when something seems so silly that the audience loses its emotional connection to the characters.
“I have one internal regulator on all this stuff. I’m a big action guy and a big action fan and I love physics too, by the way. I think the limiter for me is that we will bend to physics and never outright break it-break it. So how do you determine that?
Well, for me, while you’re watching the movie and while you’re watching the action sequence, does something happen that’s so physically impossible or absurd that it breaks faith with the audience? That you suddenly can no longer enjoy the movie and you don’t care about the characters because of that breakage.”
The ninth “Fast and Furious”, which would seem to be set completely on Earth, is currently before the cameras.
