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Jamie Foxx is no stranger to action-oriented roles, from his time playing Spider-Man villain Electro to more straightforward action films. collateral, Miami Vice And baby driverAs it turns out, there was a time when he could even put the pedal to the metal fast and furious Franchise. Fox was being courted for a leading role, although I’m honestly glad it never came to fruition.
Before I explain why I feel this way, you need to know this. in the new book Welcome to the familyWhere author Barry Hertz explores its history fast and furious movies, it is mentioned that an option F9 The post-credits scene was written “with the hope of introducing Jamie Foxx as a new villain”. This scene never progressed beyond the ideation stage, and was one of several other post-credits scenes considered for 2021. fast and furious Movies. As screenwriter Daniel Casey, who wrote the script with director Justin Lin, said (via ScreenRant):
We wrote postcredits button scenes for a few different characters in F9, including actors we expected to play villains in Fast 10 – people who weren’t even in these movies that you just expected to see. I think we wrote eight different buttons for F9 by the time we went with Jason Statham.
Now, I want to make it clear that while I’m glad this post-credits scene of Jamie Foxx never came to fruition, it has nothing to do with his acting ability. The man is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning actor, so it would be foolish for anyone to think he wouldn’t have delivered the goods in several movies fast and furious Movies. My point is the introduction of Fox’s villain character at the end F9 This meant we likely wouldn’t have gotten Jason Momoa’s Dante Reyes.
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Casey and Lynn instead decide to show Han Lue to Deckard Shaw’s door, causing the latter to discover that he did not actually kill the former as he thought, as seen retrospectively in Tokyo Drift, and then directly in. Fast & Furious 6 And furious 7This will not affect the introduction of the fictional character Jamie Foxx fast xBut would there have been focus on this character? F9 scene, then there would have been a compulsion to use him as the main antagonist. fast x Instead of Dante, and I don’t think that would have been a good compromise.
fast x Not my favorite by any means fast and furious movie, but I enjoyed watching the sociopathic Dante set out on a mission of revenge against Dominic Toretto and his crew. I’m curious to see the resolution of this story fast and furious 11Which finally appears to be making further progress. Jamie Foxx would definitely have played a good villain, but I wouldn’t do it at the expense of Momoa’s character screwing it up and painting dead people’s toenails.
since fast and furious 11 This is going to be the final entry in the main film series, we won’t get to see Jamie Foxx playing someone who makes life hell for Dom and his family. However, if the franchise moves forward with a spinoff, I would certainly welcome those opposing heroes from behind the wheel. feel free to visit again F9 With your Amazon Prime Video subscription.
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