Fast & Furious 8 revving up for massive box office domination, according to first reviews Trailer247
Were expecting The Fate of the Furious - aka Fast & Furious 8 - to do pretty well at the box office.
After all, this is a franchise that has raked in a massive $3. 9 billion over its lifetime. Well, according to early reviews, the latest movie certainly seems to be on the money, with a surprise screening impressing critics.
The showing at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Wednesday (March 29), was presented by star Vin Diesel, with Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron also in tow.
According to a few journalists that were in attendance, things sound largely positive:. In the franchises eighth instalment, lead Dominic Toretto (Diesel) turns to the dark side, and in a brand new trailer his villainy gets showcased front and centre.
https://encrypted-tbn2. gstatic. com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS_RxnBm9kRt3Y4JBZrbE6P4PZXfMfqBpnP4H2AYMG8Osxwvqs-Bg. What we wanted to do is to capitalise off of what the sagas represented for the last two decades and attempt to challenge it, Diesel has teased.
The only way we were really going to be able to continue this story was to expose the darker, more dangerous side to Dom Toretto. And thats what we had to do!.
Director F Gary Gray added: This is a completely different story than youve ever experience in the Fast franchise. Dom is always about family, and with this storyline hes going up against the team and hes going up against the family..
The Fate of the Furious smashes into cinemas on April 17.
Fast and Furious 8 early screening reactions: Another winning entry
The first reactions to Fast and Furious 8 have begun to trickle in following a surprise screening of the film at CinemaCon.
Vin Diesel, who plays Dominic Toretto in the series, introduced the premiere to excited exhibitors gathered at the release slate event in Las Vegas.
Fortunately for fans of the long-running franchise - which began in 2001 with The Fast and the Furious - it seems like this eighth film will be more of the mindlessly high-octane same.
You can see a collection of initial reactions below. Not everyone was in a celebratory mood following the screening, however.
The film reunites much of the cast that has been accumulated over the past 16 years, including Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Dwayne The Rock Johnson and Jason Statham.
New additions arrive in the form of a villainous Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren, who may or may not play a character we knows mother.
Its been reported that, following on from last years beef between Diesel and Johnson, the actors are being kept apart on the films press tour which is currently in full force. https://encrypted-tbn2. gstatic.
com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQF3ATxpelTb7e0K3ayKGayIMZ_M6Y2vl49JP4ygo2Zy1igh9SnwA. Other films to have received previews at CinemaCon include Pirates of the Caribbean 5, The Dark Tower and new Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk which is said to have received the events biggest standing ovation.
Check back here to see our verdict on the film as soon as the embargo lifts 10 April. Fast and Furious 8 is released in the UK on 12 April.
Charlize Theron is cipher, lethal villain of "Fast & Furious 8
Mad Max: Fury Road's Furiosa herself, Oscar®-winner Charlize Theron joins the cast of Universal Pictures' Fast & Furious 8 for a ride of a lifetime.
When it came to developing another worthy villain who could make Dom (Vin Diesel) betray his team, the filmmakers had an ace up their sleeves.
Namely, the globally popular actress Charlize Theron, whose on screen cred alone would bring a new pedigreed threat to the team, while interweaving more of the "holy #%$@" plot twists that smack of the Fast franchise reveals.
"We've always had this idea that we wanted one of our villains to be this amazing woman, and honestly we had our eye on Charlize Theron," confesses producer Neal Moritz.
"We've been talking with her for a number of years about becoming part of the franchise, and when we came up with this idea for what her character could be, we went to her.". https://encrypted-tbn2. gstatic.
com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQOGcABCeJWt774KDh0qIVV4r6wfTECz1XXN0aC1hFAeD2vOqVknQ. For Theron, being courted to join one the world's most beloved series was an exciting prospect.
Add to that, she knew the role, the series' first female villain—and perhaps its most lethal—would kick start a cataclysmic shift to the very core of the world the Fast & Furious cast and crew had created.
"What a great place to find yourself in, to not only be offered a great role in one of the greatest franchises ever, but to be the first female villain…that's a real honor," shares Theron.
"Cipher is the real deal, too. At her core she is completely this rapacious, and that says a lot about a character.
As an actor, there is something great about witnessing a character just coming in and taking what she wants…and doing it in a way that's unexpected.
Cipher is the ultimate puppet master, a legendary hacker known only by her exploits; it is her keystrokes and binary combinations that have long played an insidious role across the world stage.
Her tactics and strategy are explosive and will leaves audiences guessing as they witness her cold and calculated machinations.
"A director wants someone who can not only look at the words on the page, but breathe life into a character, and brings things to it that you've never considered," reflects director F.
Gary Gray of one of the series' newest cast members.
"Charlize is amazing; there's a gravitas and richness to her performance that's never been seen before in a Fast villain. She's an Oscar® winner for a reason.".
One of the more unexpected aspects of Fast & Furious 8 is the thriller elements that are woven throughout material, which will keep audiences guessing.
Placing two alphas like Cipher and Dom in one room will always yield crackling energy, but more so when the chemistry of the actors inhabiting them is just as palpable.
Says Gray of the pairing of Diesel and Theron: "When Cipher teams up with Dom, the chemistry between Vin and Charlize is absolutely electrifying. It was evident from their first scene together and continues to grow throughout this story.
It's definitely something you'd never seen before in this franchise, and I'm proud of that; audiences are going to get everything they want from Fast & Furious 8…and then some.
Even Diesel, who has inhabited the role of Dom Toretto for almost two decades, was a little giddy to see a new dimension to his alter ego.
He admits that he upped his game as an actor by going up against a talent actress who was a kindred spirit; they share an approach to character development.
"When Charlize and I first started working together, she commented on how well I must know Dom. I remember saying 'I may know Dom but that is before Cipher, before she affects him.
I don't know the Dom that's coming now," he adds with a wry laugh, "that was the beginning of what we were about to create. I am so proud of this union.
I've got to admit, when I watch Charlize and me on screen together, it is so powerful. I'm very proud of our work.".
About Fast & Furious 8.
On the heels of 2015's Fast & Furious 7, one of the fastest movies to reach $1 billion worldwide and the sixth-biggest global title in box-office history, comes the newest chapter in one of the most popular and enduring motion-picture serials of all time: Fast & Furious 8.
Now that Dom and Letty are married and Brian and Mia have retired from the game—and the rest of the crew has been exonerated—the globetrotting team has found a semblance of a normal life.
But when a mysterious woman seduces Dom into the world of crime he can't seem to escape and a betrayal of those closest to him, they will face trials that will test them as never before.
From the shores of Cuba and the streets of New York City to the icy plains off the arctic Barents Sea, our elite force will crisscross the globe to stop an anarchist from unleashing chaos on the world's stage…and to bring home the man who made them a family.
Fast & Furious 8 features a returning all-star cast, as well as a star-studded array of newcomers to this world – Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Helen Mirren, Nathalie Emmanuel, Elsa Pataky, Scott Eastwood with Kurt Russell and Charlize Theron.
Opening across the Philippines on Black Saturday, April 15, 2017, Fast & Furious 8 is distributed by United International Pictures through Columbia Pictures.
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