Idris Elba Is The Fast And Furious Franchise's Newest Baddie
For all its ridiculousness, the Fast and Furious film series is more than capable of attracting some impressive acting talent. After all, Academy Award-winners Helen Mirren and Charlize Theron were more than happy to appear in a film that included a submarine chase and a scene featuring a car winning a race while on fire and driving backwards.
Now, it’s been confirmed that Idris Elba is joining the franchise, starring in 2019’s F&F spin-off focusing on characters Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw. Elba was reportedly in final negotiations to star in the film in July, but Dwayne Johnson - who plays Hobbs - has confirmed the news via Instagram, and given us our first look at the character.
He’ll be playing ‘Brixton’, the primary antagonist. Well, they needed a new villain after inexplicably turning sociopath Shaw (played by Jason Statham) into one of the good guys and Hobbs’ best bud, didn’t they?
The film will be helmed by David Leitch - director of John Wick and Deadpool 2 - and is also set to star Mission Impossible - Fallout’s Vanessa Kirby as Shaw’s sister.
It’ll be released on 2 August 2019. Expect explosions and general silliness.
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So…. this is about cars yeah? Somewhere in there… somehow this is car related?
Eh, if it’s a spinoff, then very little…
Probably a 30:1 gun to car ratio, at least
Idris Elba’s into cars? I dunno.
Is it going to be in space?
There’s gonna be a chase between a space ship, a submarine and a donkey! Oh and some cool car they googled! :))
I swear to got if this movie has nothing to do with cars im gonna go ballistic
So where is the street racing at
Does anyone else think he looks a bit like his face was cut and ever so slightly dragged downwards?
Like a bad face swap
This is not Fast and Furious 9. It’s more like 8.5.
Fast and Furious 9 and 10 will be made after this with Justin Lin as director.
Wut?
I still wonder what dom was doing in Japan after han’s death.
Yos