Fast & Furious: Vin Diesel agreed to return without payment, but on one condition

A veteran of the Fast and Furious saga, Vin Diesel has lent his features from Dominic Toretto’s first opus, released in 2001, to the latest, Fast X, which invaded our darkrooms on May 17th.

But even if he is undoubtedly the main face of the franchise, the actor did not return to the wheel of 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), the second part was worn only by Paul Walker and Tyrese Gibson.

Not even for Tokyo Drift, at the end of which he still made a cameo, marking his grand return to the saga to the delight of fans.

However, as screenwriter Chris Morgan revealed in 2017, who worked on the franchise prior to Opus 8 and the spin-off Hobbs & Shaw, during an interview. Uproxx websiteVin Diesel was originally supposed to play the third adventure on the streets of the Japanese megapolis.

“There was a call to write the third movie. I think I started by coming in and coming up with my idea. It was basically Tokyo Drift, but it was with Vin. And his character had to go and learn the art of drifting. And he had to investigate the murder. “ Morgan explained.

Eventually replaced by Lucas Black, Vin Diesel therefore agreed to return at the end of the film without payment. His only condition: reinstate the rights to the Riddick franchise, which Universal held at the time. As Chris Morgan also explained in an interview, this cameo really marked a new beginning for the saga:

“At that moment, at the end of the movie, everyone was like, ‘Oh my God, what does this mean? Are they going to do something?’ And that gave us the ammunition to go ahead and make the fourth movie, which led to the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth. So it all went from there.”

As for the anti-hero Riddick of Nyctalope, his 2013 (non)adventure was released on a truly paltry budget of $38 million, unfortunately bringing in only $98.3 million at the worldwide box office. What else does the actor need to convince him to continue his supercharged cars?