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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yeah, sure…
If you feel down on yourself, think of poor Vin Diesel, who thinks F&F franchise has chance for any reward more valuable then Razzie..
Dont get me wrong,i enjoy a crazy F&F movie as much as the next petrol head. But oscars? Uh Nope.
Boi
I first read “Fast 8 is different. It’s very dank“
U wat m8
It very well could, if they can throw enough money at the people who decide on the winners.
maybe he is refering to Fast going back to wat it was.. Cars and not guns..
oh wait no he wants an oscar
First fnf movie I watched when I was 7 plus near my local arcade we have the fnf game yass btw im 11.5 yrs old
looks at the Academy awards
Dude I almost had you
I live my life one oscar at a time.