Afterliterally going to space inF9,how could theFast & Furiousfranchise possibly keep getting bigger?!

That’s the inherent problemFast Xdirector Louis Leterrierfaced when he took the wheel of the saga.

“What could I do?

Vin Diesel in ‘Fast X’

Vin Diesel in ‘Fast X’.Peter Mountain/Universal Pictures

“There’s nothing I could have done that’s bigger than that.

There’s no way.

They went to space, so I was like, ‘Let’s bring it back to Earth.'”

What would this franchise be without a little NOS-fueled vehicular warfare, after all?

“That was so important to me,” he says.

“That was not in the script, it’s something I added.

I did all that stuff and that was my dream come true.”

Fast Xraces into theaters this weekend.

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