Paul Walker and Vin Diesel to Return for Fast and Furious 5

Fast & Furious 4

Latest in the franchise, Fast & Furious breaks box office record for April with a 72.5 million dollar take last weekend

By Alex Ricciuti
April 15, 2009 5:02 am
Filed Under: American, Entertainment, Movies, Tuners

After the latest film in the franchise has proven itself an unqualified hit, Fast & Furious stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker have immediately signed on for a fifth movie in the series.

Fast & Furious broke a box office record for April by posting a 72.5 million (US) take for the opening weekend.

The stars certainly wasted no time in committing to making more road raging action for the big screen. Since the original film, The Fast and the Furious released back in 2001, was a break-out hit for both stars, Diesel and Walker have seen their careers flounder with a slew of poorly received movie fare. After returning to the franchise this time around, they seem to realize where their bread gets buttered.

Fast & Furious, released last week to tepid reviews, has defied the critics and founds its audience in the car tuning subcultures in the United States and of those around the world. Though, Walker may have inadvertently acknowledged that this wasn't the best of sequels and hopes to make the next one the film that tops the series.

"I don't think the best one's been done yet," he is quoted in the MSNBC story.

 

Source: MSNBC

Comments (page 1 of 2)

C-KING
April 15, 2009 10:18 am
Last news reported that the movie will be in Brazil.

mmr66
April 15, 2009 11:40 am
i hope they do one in europe that would be soooooo cooool

scratchy996
April 15, 2009 11:53 am
i hope this one will have transformers cars, that would be like totally awesome !

carbonsigma
April 15, 2009 12:01 pm
Lame.

Fast and the Furious does not deserve yet another sequel.

No movies about cars can be good.

scratchy996
April 15, 2009 12:15 pm
not even a movie with talking cars with wings and big laser guns on them ?

Beetle
April 15, 2009 2:17 pm
so the italian job (original) , mad max 1 , and le mans ~(steve mqueen) were all rubbish films then?

I bet your house is a real party at christmas lol

carbonsigma
April 15, 2009 10:53 pm
Ok, spoke too soon. Those movies are good.

But F&F is all show and no go. But that's just my opinion!

N20_Purge
April 15, 2009 12:21 pm
It never ends, does it?

Oh wait, I'm gonna have to see F&F soon. Please do not type spoilers....

Imasa
April 15, 2009 12:39 pm
The only good thing about this movie is Jordana Brewster.

Siawa
April 15, 2009 2:13 pm
I second that.

radmeister
April 15, 2009 2:34 pm
I would have to disagree, the only good thing about the movie was Gal Gadot when she wore the white t-shirt with no bra. :)

benz_man
April 15, 2009 2:37 pm
I'd watch it if it wasn't so obviously fake.

Viking79
April 15, 2009 5:03 pm
To Beetle; I respectfully would like to add Bulitt, Vanishing Point, Gone in 60 Seconds, Ronin, and the Transporter(s) - I know the last couple aren't exclusive car flicks, but an Audi RS8 kicking ass and taking names is just too damn cool!

Beetle
April 15, 2009 7:56 pm
Sorry i couldnt think of any at the time lol good job though :)

C-KING
April 16, 2009 2:58 am
Are you talking about Transporter 2&3? It was Audi A8 6.0 V12

Bojassem
April 18, 2009 5:04 am
W12, not a V12

vilivo
April 15, 2009 6:47 pm
RS8?!? Didn't know that was out, thought we stopped at S8... oh well, prob looks like a R8 anyway...

Beetle
April 15, 2009 8:00 pm
On the audi website its in the same class as all the "R" cars , but lets not go down that road ...

RobERob
April 15, 2009 7:24 pm
First, I thought F&F4 was... okay, but making a 5 film with the same actors? Vin Diesel, 42, and Paul Walker, the obvious undercover cop, are getting way too old to be living their lives a quarter mile at a time, so to speak.

Viking79
April 15, 2009 8:49 pm
Thought they went up to RS8 and not just S8. I strive for accuracy - my bad.

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