Fast and Furious 10: The director revealed the first film with the star of the saga

In May 2022, we learned that French director Louis Leterrier (The Transporter, The Incredible Hulk, Elusive) had taken over the helm of Fast X from Justin Lin.

The director of Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift and episodes 4, 5, 6 and 9 did indeed leave filming after a week. according to The Hollywood ReporterJustin Lin could have had enough of the constant changes of the script and location, but the latter remained the producer.

So Universal quickly turned to Louis Leterrier, who was already there for the previous installment, so that the latter directs Fast X. If the French director was hesitant at first, he finally agreed and had 4 days to prepare and rewrite part of the script. personal touch The latter is also helming Fast 11, which is billed as the final installment in the $6.6 billion franchise. Unless a 12th movie ever sees the light of day, as Vin Diesel recently announced.

Big fan of the action saga, Louis Leterrier told us that he discovered the first film in the franchise in theaters with the star of his first film… a star who is none other than Jason Statham, who plays Deckard Shaw in Fast & Furious. Absent from the ninth film, the British actor returned for Fast X. So this film marks the reunion of the two men 18 years after The Transporter II.

Louis Leterrier explains: “During filming carrier We went to see it with Jason Statham Fast & Furious in the cinema on the Champs-Élysées. We told ourselves that this was incredible and that we had to do something similar. And years later, we’re working together again on Fast X. It’s amazing.”

Who predicted in September 2001 that 22 years later, Louis Leterrier would be at the helm of the final installments of the Fast & Furious franchise, and that he would find Jason Statham there? Fate sometimes does things well.

In Fast & Furious 10, the French filmmaker leads a 5-star cast that includes Statham. Vin Diesel, Jason Momoa, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, Helen Mirren, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Natalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, John Cena, Alan Ritchson and Rita Moreno.

The action film sees Dante (Momoa), the son of Hernán Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), a crooked businessman who targets Dom and Brian (Paul Walker) in the Dast Five, come for revenge to inflict torment on our heroes.