New ‘Fast And Furious 6’ Poster, Dwayne Johnson Concerned About ‘Fast 7’ Schedule Conflict
The finale of theDwayne JohnsonSpring Movie Extravaganza comes May 24 withFast and Furious 6. It’ll be The Rock’s third major film in three months and it features an expansion of his supporting role fromFast Five. Johnson returns as Luke Hobbs, a federal agent who puts aside his differences with Dom and Brian (Vin DieselandPaul Walker) to help bring down a much worse criminal, played byLuke Evans.
Though we haven’t seenFast and Furious 6yet, one would assume Hobbs survives for the series finale,Fast and Furious 7,likely directed byJames Wan. However, in a new interview, Johnson admits if theFast Sevenshooting schedule lines up as rumored (Vin Diesel saidit’s shooting in Los Angeles this summer) he won’t be able to be part of it ashe’ll be overseas shootingBrett Ratner’sHercules.
Check out Johnson’s brand new, character-centric poster and read some quotes, below.
Here’s Johnson’s full poster forFast and Furious 6, viaComing Soon.
And Johnson spoke toColliderabout his potential schedule conflict:
[A Summer shoot] is not possible for me because I’m shootingHerculesthis summer starting in 6 weeks in Budapest, so, possible for them I’m not too sure. I haven’t heard anything about that and I’m pretty sure I would have gotten a phone call pretty early in the morning if that was the real plan. Not quite too sure though.
Johnson is correct here. Though Diesel said production would start over the summer, and it would have to start soon to be ready for the summer 2014 release date Universal has planned, there’s little chance they’ll make the movie without his character. Either they’ll work around his schedule, backload his shooting, or cut down his part; there are any number of options. Or, maybe that previous assumption is wrong and Hobbs does bite the big one in this film. Something major has to happen to raise the stakes and that would certainly qualify.
What are your thoughts on Johnson’sFast 6/7quandary?
