Louis Leterrier, director of ‘Fast and Furious 10’, assures that the film recovers the essence of the saga: “Let’s go back to the cars”

Louis Leterrier is as much a fan as he is the biggest fan, which is why when Justin Lin decided to step down from his position as director of ‘Fast & Furious 10’, this director ended up agreeing to drive such a mess. feeling the weight of responsibility, signing a napkin and thinking the space bravado had to stop. “That jump with the shark, going into space was so much fun”but that’s not what this franchise wants for its closure. The farewell of ‘Fast & Furious’ asks for family, asks for cars, asks for a lift “to the films that created the fanbase”.

“We’re going back to basics and we’re also going back to tone. We’re going back to the cars. It’s almost like going back to the ‘Fast & Furious’ movies that built the fan base.”, Leterrier assures in statements to eCartelera underlining that after a constant escalation, it is time to plan a farewell related to what captivated viewers when Brian (Paul Walker) and Dom (Vin Diesel) dedicated themselves to the burning wheel and little other. Hence the importance of having a bad guy behind the wheel, an antagonist to compete against in a classic street race, a character to serve as an anchor to bring the saga back to a more earthly point. “[Hace varias entregas] that we do not see a driving antagonist, behind the wheel of a car. Dante is a great rider, even on a motorcycle. Jason Momoa did all his own stunts, rode his motorcycle through Rome like crazy. He’s crazy, he was crazy”.

Momoa is incorporated to champion a new direction, a path designed perhaps with the goal of making happy fans who have been a part of the Fast Family for more than two decades. This Fan Service, by designing a story with the aim of satisfying the viewers, It’s something that can often end up at odds with the coherence of the plot.a sensitive issue that Leterrier believes he avoided. “Maybe I’m wrong, the fans will tell us, but I think what we’re doing fits the narrative. I have nothing against that space trip, I think it was a lot of fun, but [con el argumento de ‘Fast & Furious 10’] we consciously put our feet back on the ground. Let’s go back to the origins: let’s go back to the family, to cars, to practical purposes. We keep defying the laws of physics or gravity because it’s fun, but we’re looking for ways to do it practically.”.

“We invented cameras to do stunts as if they had never been filmed before, there are shots where we jump from one car to another… All of this was done for real, with actors, which is something that no one has done so far. There’s like 15 sequences we had to come up with.”says this director, defending a more traditional approach to computer-based scene design.

He also acknowledges that he wouldn’t have been able to do even half of it if he didn’t have a team willing to give everything, including the protagonists. “You will see that in every fight it is the actors themselves. In the trailer you see a fight between Lety and Cipher, Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron, which is 100% theirs. It was terrifying for me to see Michelle’s fist remain inches from Charlize’s face.”.

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As is the case with many fans, Leterrier confesses that he is a “Fast & Furious 5” devotee, the film in which this saga began to be what it is. The effort to expand the team by signing big names, such as Dwayne Johnson, or those adventures on a global scale, began with a fifth installment directed by Justin Lin, a Fast Family veteran who wrote the screenplay for “Fast & Furious 10” with Dan Mazeau. That’s why this connection between this beginning of the end and that film set in Brazil is so special., “with some great characters”.

Leterrier ensures that with the tenth episode we will make some time jumps to add pieces to that film from which Momoa’s villain was born, a narrative bet that can be very satisfying but also risky. In this regard, the director promises “the script is great” and he does so by talking from affection to his favorite film of the franchise. “As a fan of the series [cuando leí el libreto] I thought what Justin has created is amazing”.

* “Fast & Furious 10” it is only released in theaters next May 19th.