Vin Diesel Reckons Fast 8 Has A Shot At The Oscars
It’s pretty much guaranteed that a new Fast and Furious film will make an enormous amount of money at the box office. After all, the last one - Furious 7 - took a staggering $1.5 billion off the back of its £190 million budget. But there’s one thing we definitely don’t expect from an F&F movie: an Oscar. Unless of course you’re Vin Diesel.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Diesel predicted that Fast 8 would nab director F. Gary Gray the Academy Award he missed out on for biopic Straight Outta Compton. “I think he went into making this movie with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder, going ‘Oh, really? Ok. Now I’m going to take the biggest saga in the world, and I’m about to throw Oscars at you’…Wait till you see what he does!” He said.
We should expect a different tone for this film, too. “Fast 8 is different. It’s very dark…My character is conflicted in a way that is really going to shock you. He’s coming off of a lot of emotion from [Furious] 7 and the loss that 7 represents,” Diesel explained.
All this sound familiar? That’s because before Furious 7 was released, Vin Diesel insisted it would “probably win best picture at the Oscars.” And we all know how that turned out.
Still, you never know…
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Prediction: History Will Repeat.
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I am so happy I have never seen a faf movie.
Sir, what are you doing? Get watching!
Hey its not just me :D
To be fair, Straight Outta Compton is fantastic. But jesus wept, is he really this deluded? No director on earth can turn a Fast & Furious script into an award-winner. Still, here we are talking about it…
What if it would happen, blowing everyone’s mind with a super-duper plot twist?
Wishful thinking
Hahahahaha.
Wait.
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No.
I heard that he’s up against my PR skills for that oscar though… I’m a nominee!
#DisklokBeingDisklok?
FnF 7 managed that record because it was Paul Walker’s last movie appearance. And because of the hype generated by fans (GT-R fanboys included), the movie stacked great at the box office. I doubt Vin Diesel would be make that movie great as the last one. -__-
Furious 7 was the best shot they had if any, and that was purely due to it’s ending. Movies simply should have stopped there. Vin, let the franchise die a hero, don’t let it live long enough to become a villain.