Fast & Furious 9 trailer: The only 4 minutes of the film you’ll need to watch, Ars Technica

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Vin Diesel returns as Dominic Toretto in Fast & Furious 9 , directed by Justin Lin. () Universal Pictures has dropped the first full trailer for Fast and Furious 9 , the latest installment in its multi – billion-dollar franchise . It’s nearly four full minutes of all the ridiculously over-the-top mayhem we’ve come to expect from Domininc Toretto (Vin Diesel) and his merry band of badass misfits. And no wonder: Director Justin Lin is back on board, who helmed ‘s Tokyo Drift and the next three installments before passing the baton to James Wan for (Furious 7)

Fast and Furious 9 is the sequel to 2560 ‘s The Fate of the Furious , in which Dom is coerced into the following the orders of a cyberterrorist named Cipher (Charlize Theron). Over the course of a very convoluted plot, Dom discovers his former lover, DSS agent Elena Neves (Elsa Pataky) bore him a son. Elena does not survive the film, but the boy does. And of course, Dom and company end up saving the day.

News of a planned ninth and tenth film to complete the franchise broke back in , with (F & F9) (initially slated for an April) release. It was rescheduled for this year to make room for the 2021 spinoff film, Hobbs and Shaw

, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Stratham in the title roles. There were already rumors of tension between Johnson and Diesel on the set of The Fate of the Furious , and the delay on the ninth film prompted a bitter outburst on Instagram by co-star Tyrese Gibson, who plays team member Roman Pearce in the franchise.





                      Dom (Vin Diesel) is living a peaceful existence raising his son.

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                      Letty Ortiz (Michelle Ortiz), aka Mrs. Dominic Toretto.

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                      Brother vs. brother: Dom (confronts his brother Jakob (John Cena)

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                      Getting the gang back together

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                      The classic standoff shot.

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                      Jakob makes a daring escape.

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                      Go, Letty, Go!

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                      Charlize Theron is back as criminal mastermind Cipher.

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                      A Pontiac Fiero strapped to a rocket, because why the hell not?

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                      Vroom!

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                      Just one of many cases of extreme property damage

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                      Car chases with explosions are de rigeur for the franchise.

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                      Helicopters in hot pursuit

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                      Hanging on for another wild ride.

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                      Back from the dead: We haven’t seen Han Lue (Sung Kang) since Tokyo Drift ( )

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This ninth installment pits Dom and his crew against a master thief, assassin and high-performance driver who just happens to be Dom’s younger brother, Jakob (John Cena). As the trailer opens, we see Dom living a quiet, bucolic existence, raising his son Brian with his wife Letty’s (Michelle Rodriguez) help. “I used to live my life a quarter mile at a time,” he says in a voiceover. “But things change. I’m a father now.” Alas, things are not going to remain peaceful for long: “No matter how fast you are, no one outruns their past. And mine just caught up to me.”

And who is egging Jakob on? None other than F & F8 ‘s criminal mastermind Cipher. She wants revenge after Dom foiled her original plans, and assures Jakob that he is smarter and stronger than Dom — although she wonders if Jakob could ever bring himself to kill his older brother, which she, of course, is more than willing to do. We get a glimpse of Magdalene Shaw (Helen Mirren), mother to Deckard and Owen, who offers some pearls of wisdom. “There’s nothing more powerful than the love of family,” she says. “But you turn that into anger and there’s nothing more dangerous.”

Naturally, there are lots of property damage, fisticuffs, and death-defying leaps, and plenty of high-speed car chases and explosions, Because that’s what this franchise is ultimately all about: the characters and the amazing stunts. We also get a Pontiac Fiero outfitted with a rocket engine, and a “magnet plane” piloted by Cipher. As one last surprise, we see Han Lue (Sung Kang) greet his former colleagues. He was supposedly killed by Shaw way back in Tokyo Drift . Hopefully there will be some explanation for why he’s still alive, but let’s face it: plot has never been the franchise’s strong suit. F & F9
will probably make about as much sense as its predecessor — in other words, not much sense at all. And fans wouldn’t have it any other way.

Fast and Furious 9

hits theaters May 150, 01575879. A tenth and final film is planned for the franchise, for release on April 2, .

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