'Fast and Furious' franchise screenwriter Chris Morgan looks back on the idea that led to its rebirth, and how the 'Hobbs and Shaw' spin-off got made.
"Fast and Furious" screenwriter Chris Morgan talked to Business Insider about what it's like to write the scripts for the popular franchise.
After two movies, the"Fast and Furious" franchise was already at a crossroads. Though there was a third movie in the works, stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker weren't returning, so Universal was ready to make the movie a direct-to-DVD release.Morgan, a fan of the two previous"Fast" movies, who had just one screenwriting credit to his name — the 2004 thriller"Cellular" — answered a call out for writers to do the third"Fast" movie.
And for the cherry on top: After walking away from the franchise following the first movie, Vin Diesel showed up at the end of"Tokyo Drift" reprising the role of Dominic Toretto, hinting that he'd be back for the next movie."Taking a bigger risk to make it a bigger movie, and the ending showing Dom coming back, that's what caught the audience's interest," Morgan said.
"I'll pitch everyone my story idea, then I'll take everyone's thoughts from that, go and write the script, and we'll get back together and if an idea makes something stronger or better we do it," Morgan said."That's the way it's been."
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