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

 Paul Walker and Vin Diesel to Return for Fast and Furious 5
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Latest in the franchise, Fast & Furious breaks box office record for April with a 72.5 million dollar take last weekend

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

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 C-KING C-KING
Last news reported that the movie will be in Brazil.
April 15, 2009 11:18 am
 mmr66 mmr66
i hope they do one in europe that would be soooooo cooool
April 15, 2009 12:40 pm
 scratchy996 scratchy996
i hope this one will have transformers cars, that would be like totally awesome !
April 15, 2009 12:53 pm
 carbonsigma carbonsigma
Lame. Fast and the Furious does not deserve yet another sequel. No movies about cars can be good.
April 15, 2009 1:01 pm
 scratchy996 scratchy996
not even a movie with talking cars with wings and big laser guns on them ?
April 15, 2009 1:15 pm
 Beetle Beetle
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
April 15, 2009 3:17 pm
 carbonsigma carbonsigma
Ok, spoke too soon. Those movies are good. But F&F is all show and no go. But that's just my opinion!
April 15, 2009 11:53 pm
 N20_Purge N20_Purge
It never ends, does it? Oh wait, I'm gonna have to see F&F soon. Please do not type spoilers....
April 15, 2009 1:21 pm
 Imasa Imasa
The only good thing about this movie is Jordana Brewster.
April 15, 2009 1:39 pm
 Siawa Siawa
I second that.
April 15, 2009 3:13 pm
 radmeister radmeister
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. :)
April 15, 2009 3:34 pm
 benz_man benz_man
I'd watch it if it wasn't so obviously fake.
April 15, 2009 3:37 pm
 Viking79 Viking79
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!
April 15, 2009 6:03 pm
 Beetle Beetle
Sorry i couldnt think of any at the time lol good job though :)
April 15, 2009 8:56 pm
 C-KING C-KING
Are you talking about Transporter 2&3? It was Audi A8 6.0 V12
April 16, 2009 3:58 am
 Bojassem Bojassem
W12, not a V12
April 18, 2009 6:04 am
 vilivo vilivo
RS8?!? Didn't know that was out, thought we stopped at S8... oh well, prob looks like a R8 anyway...
April 15, 2009 7:47 pm
 Beetle Beetle
On the audi website its in the same class as all the "R" cars , but lets not go down that road ...
April 15, 2009 9:00 pm
 RobERob RobERob
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.
April 15, 2009 8:24 pm
 Viking79 Viking79
Thought they went up to RS8 and not just S8. I strive for accuracy - my bad.
April 15, 2009 9:49 pm
 Raste Raste
It's not a S8, just a A8 with the W12 ;) The S8 is a V10
April 16, 2009 6:37 am
 CarbonRick CarbonRick
Isn't it an Audi A8 W12?? Yes, it seems a bit of bandwagon-jumping is going on, just give it a decent storyline...
April 17, 2009 6:23 pm
 Housby92 Housby92
i fancy a 5th with paul walker, vin diesel and Lucas Black (:...
May 5, 2009 5:24 pm