https://staging2.theplaylist.net/interview-justin-lin-talks-why-eva-mendes-didnt-come-back-and-how-robert-altman-inspired-fast-furious-6-20130522/ Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/interview-justin-lin-talks-why-eva-mendes-didnt-come-back-and-how-robert-altman-inspired-fast-furious-6-20130522/#comment-54228 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:57 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/interview-justin-lin-talks-why-eva-mendes-didnt-come-back-and-how-robert-altman-inspired-fast-furious-6-97719/#comment-54228 A great interview with Justin Lin. I like how he talks about being able to rebuild the franchise by bringing back the original cast and connecting all the films together as well as maintaining the culutre of the locations where the movies are set. Also it shows how great Universal are as a studio to give Lin creative freedom and allow him to do what he wants. Most studios would not allow the directors to have too much control. Though you could argue that when Lin signed on to do Tokyo Drift Universal didn't have anything to lose as some people considered the franchise dead at that point. However it made money and each subsiquent film has become more profitable and thus has allowed Justin to be able to do what he wants in the films. So in a sense he is the Christopher Nolan/Ridley Scott of Universal.

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