Fast & Furious 7 hasn't even started shooting yet and already there's disappointing news — Denzel Washington will
not be in it. Sure, no one even knew he was offered a role (how the
heck did that slip past everyone?), but it's still a major letdown. I
didn't even know I wanted Denzel Washington in a Fast & Furious movie until it was too late. Now the dream is gone.
In a rant
about how studios are creating hardly any new intellectual properties
lately, Deadline's Mike Fleming, Jr. briefly mentioned that Washington
turned down a "small role" in the seventh installment of the Fast franchise.
There are no more details about who he would have played (or who
they're looking at for the part now), but I'm sure we'll find out soon
enough.
Vin Diesel will return, of course, and Jason Statham
will play the villain. But Statham always plays a guy who drives a car
in an aggressive yet charming fashion, so that's nothing new. How cool
would it be, though, if Denzel Washington showed up saying something
about nitrous and pink slips and uttering a "You're gonna need more than
that crotch rocket"? Can you imagine Denzel Washington saying the words
"crotch rocket"? Well, now you'll never get to (okay, maybe you might
at some point, but it's not happening with James Wan at the helm).
Fast & Furious 7 is set to hit theaters, Denzel-less, on July 6th, 2014.
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