my formerly favorite fast & furious rumor

(I tried to find a synonym for “rumor” that began with “f” — but no dice.)

My favorite rumor about the next Fast & Furious movie was that Helen Mirren might play the villain. The story was that she would play the mother of Owen Shaw (the villain in #6) and Deckard Shaw (the villain in #7), out for revenge for her sons being, respectively, in a coma and in prison because of Dom’s crew.

And that would have been (and still could be) cool, but now there’s this:

Charlize Theron in Talks forĀ Furious 8, Prepare Your Fast and the Furiosa Puns Now

Oh, yeah.

Maybe Helen Mirren can be in #9.

By the way, this is the thing that gets much less attention than the lack of female heroes, especially as main characters, in superhero movies — they mostly don’t get to be villains, either. Sometime conflicted semi-villains like Mystique, but not real villainy villains like the Joker or Thanos.

Print Friendly, PDF & Email
This entry was posted in Movies. Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. You can also subscribe without commenting.