Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan has responded to Christopher Nolan revealing his love for Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift.
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Back in 2020, while appearing as a guest on Josh Horowitz’s HappySadConfused podcast, Nolan shared that he’s “got a very soft spot” for Tokyo Drift and went on to praise director Justin Lin’s entries in the franchise “as they got crazier and bigger and crazier and bigger and became something else, but something else kinda fun,” (via Collider).
Now, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Morgan opened up to Nolan’s comments about the standalone sequel to 2001’s The Fast and the Furious.
After being asked if the news of the Oppenheimer director’s comments had “knocked you sideways at the time,” Morgan said: “How could it not? He is literally one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of humanity, and he likes my movie.
“By the way, I’ve spoken to him about it since then. That movie was an open writing assignment, and I pitched, ‘They’re doing a thing in Tokyo called drifting. Here’s what it is, and here’s how the movie could go.’ But I didn’t get the job at first because I didn’t realize that the studio mandate at the time was to do a $10 million straight-to-DVD movie in Los Angeles. The movie I pitched was more expensive, but they ultimately called me back. So we talked it through, and we got a chance to do it.”
In other news, earlier this year, John Cena opened up about the rumoured animosity between his Fast & Furious co-stars Dwayne Johnson and Vin Diesel.
Speaking on Dax Shepherd’s Armchair Expert podcast, Cena weighed in on the reported feud between Johnson and Diesel.
The actor and former WWE wrestler said: “There’s certainly rumours about that. I can’t deny that.” He explained: “You have two very alpha, driven people. You get two. There can only be one.”
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