Last year, action megastar Vin Diesel made headlines when he insisted that the release of the hotly anticipated ninth “Fast and Furious” installment – that ever-beloved media franchise that officially cemented Mr. Diesel’s legacy and made him the icon he is today – would not be delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, Mr. Diesel is prone to making hyperbolic statements in the press, particularly about the films he himself features in.

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The biggest fans of Christopher Nolan would call the filmmaker a visionary. A trailblazer of sorts. Someone that loves to push the envelope and test the limits of cinema in the biggest, boldest ways. Apparently, that visionary sensibility applies to his own movie tastes when it comes to blockbusters, particularly those in the “Alien” and “Fast & Furious” franchises.

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Once upon a time, “The Fast And The Furious” franchise was a modestly successful car racing series that was a far cry from the blockbuster behemoth we know it as today. In fact, “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift” could’ve arguably ended it all. The third installment remains the least successful entry in the series (by a large margin; it couldn’t even crack $160 million worldwide), and accidentally made Universal realize that Vin Diesel (who makes a brief cameo) and the rest of his pals were perhaps more crucial to the property than anybody realized.

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