In case you noticed Quick X — and spoilers ahoy should you didn’t — that it ended with the shock return of Dwayne Johnson’s Agent Luke Hobbs, who turned the Quick household’s adversary in Quick 5, after which one in every of its largest members (actually) in Quick & Livid 6, Livid 7, and The Destiny of the Livid. After that, Johnson acquired his personal Quick spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, however his rocky relationship with Quick star and producer Vin Diesel meant he was in any other case gone from the principle Quick storyline.
As not too long ago as late 2021, Vin Diesel was publicly lobbying Johnson to return for the multipart Quick & Livid finale — and Johnson was publicly saying he wished nothing to do with it. (“I’m assured within the Quick universe and its means to constantly ship for the viewers… I actually want my former co-stars and crew members the perfect of luck and success within the subsequent chapter,” he mentioned on the time.)
Clearly, one thing modified Johnson’s thoughts. Whereas he stored quiet about it for some time in an effort to let folks uncover his Quick X cameo within the theater, Johnson publicly introduced his Quick return on his Twitter account right this moment.
“Luke Hobbs can be returning to the Quick & Livid franchise,” he wrote. Johnson additionally revealed that he can be headlining a solo Hobbs film “that can function a contemporary, new chapter & arrange for Quick X: Half II.”
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“Final summer season Vin and I put all of the previous behind us. We’ll lead with brotherhood and resolve – and at all times deal with the franchise, characters & FANS that we love,” Johnson additionally wrote.
Diesel and Johnson’s feud turned the topic of a lot on-line dialogue by the years. Johnson fueled these rumors when he at one level posted a touch upon social media slamming unnamed “male co-stars” who had been, in his estimation, “sweet asses.” Whereas he later deleted the publish, he brazenly acknowledged that he and Diesel had been “philosophically two completely different folks, and we method the enterprise of moviemaking in two very other ways.” And he turned down a number of efforts from Diesel to get him to return again for Quick X.
As to what modified … properly, apart from his Jumanji films, Johnson has not had loads of large hits currently. His Black Adam was supposed to start out a long-running tentpole franchise for DC, however the movie underwhelmed on the field workplace and it seems that, at the least for now, there received’t be a sequel. Six of Johnson’s ten highest grossing films are his Quick movies; the opposite 4 are the 2 Jumanjis, plus Moana and San Andreas. If he needs to re-solidify his standing as a serious box-office draw, displaying up for yet one more Quick blowout might be the simplest method to do it.
Quick X 2 was scheduled to open in theaters subsequent yr — but when Hobbs wants to return out earlier than it, that’s virtually definitely not taking place anymore.
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This franchise lives its life 1 / 4 mile at a time. Nevertheless it seems you possibly can cram a complete lot of lunacy into 1 / 4 mile.
