Aug 21 2008Vin Diesel is the Woody Allen of Car-Driving Movies
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.
Reader Comments
1. zach - August 21, 2008 6:02 PM
damn...i was looking forward to 3 3ast 3 3urious
2. Not - August 21, 2008 6:34 PM
Does that make Woody Allen the Vin Deisel of pointless, self-serving borefests or is that redundant?
3. Elmo - August 21, 2008 6:43 PM
who goes to see these things?
4. Nick - August 21, 2008 6:50 PM
Actually, I think it's more like the Crystal Skull of the series.
5. Sven - August 21, 2008 7:22 PM
Don't "F" with Vin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfF7HC5XK6c
6. Krank - August 21, 2008 7:36 PM
I can't wait!
7. zach - August 21, 2008 8:08 PM
trailer leaked!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4rtXYgqaPQ
8. Paulie Danger - August 21, 2008 11:04 PM
As long as there's a Vin Diesel monologue about how he lives his life, I'm sold.
9. Uncle Not Clever - August 22, 2008 9:55 AM
yes, it will not be good. it will be bad.
at some point you'd think someone would say, "all right, goddamnit, enough."
alas, no.
10. usweeteey - August 22, 2008 10:55 AM
I have seen these things enough!
but i am surprised by Vin Diesel since i ever saw his private ADs on
__MatchRich.c o m__ , i wondering why was he there! wanna date with hot beauties?? who knows!
11. sh3lby - August 22, 2008 11:28 AM
Well great.
Um, I guess that on one hand I can't help but to give slight kudos for the creators to at least give an attempt to tie the so-far random, incoherent, barely tied together "series" and create some kind of universal plot-line. On the other hand, they probably should have just forgotten about their hideous abortion and left it in the dumpster with the other unwanted, smelly children.