Vin Diesel is the Woody Allen of Car-Driving Movies

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When a series is daring enough to document the lives of those who are both fast and furious, then amp it up to too (2) fast/(2) furious, take it to Tokyo, then make it conceptual by presenting "fast" and "furious" as non-specific ideas, changing characters and cars throughout the saga, the possibility exists that some viewers may get lost between chapters. Luckily, Vin Diesel is directing and starring in a 20-minute prequel to the upcoming Fast and Furious that will bridge the gaps:

Vin Diesel, who stars in next Friday's Babylon A.D., told ComingSoon.net today that he is directing a 20-minute prequel to Fast and Furious, the fourth installment in the Universal Pictures franchise.

Diesel will star in the prequel along with Michelle Rodriguez reprising her role as Letty and Sung Kang returning as Han. Diesel didn't say how the prequel would premiere; it could be on a DVD, online, TV, etc.

The fourth movie is a sequel to the first installment, and though Diesel didn't elaborate, we assume this 20-minute prequel will tie-in some of the events from the second and third movies. Rodriguez appeared in the first movie, Sung Kang in the third, and Diesel in the first with a brief cameo in the third.

This sounds an awful lot like a Star Wars: The Clone Wars of the Fast/Furious series. Very bad, I mean. It won't be good. It will be bad.