‘Fast X’ Director Louis Leterrier’s Wife Talked Him Into Making the Movie: ‘She Had Full Exhausted Voice’
26.05.2023 - 00:13
/ thewrap.com
Fast X” is the No. 1 movie in the world. While it’s the 10th installment in the wildly popular “Fast and Furious” franchise, the movie’s success was not a sure thing — especially since original director Justin Lin, a series mainstay, left the project shortly into production.
As a fix, Universal turned to Louis Leterrier, the French filmmaker behind “Now You See Me,” “The Incredible Hulk” and Netflix series “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance.”TheWrap spoke to Leterrier about jumping aboard the new movie, wrangling his massive cast (which includes Vin Diesel, Jason Momoa, Brie Larson, Michelle Rodriguez, Charlize Theron, John Cena and Jason Statham, among others) and what he’s got planned for the next film (Universal was so happy with his performance, he’ll be back for the 11th chapter). Start your engines!What was it like boarding this runaway train?I felt all the feels. I was, like, “Oh my God, I’m the happiest I’ve ever been.” Also the most terrified.
It was daunting but exciting at the same time. And then it’s not like I was going into a non-terrain. There’s nine movies, plus a spin off, plus a short film.
There’s all these movies that I’ve admired and loved for 20 years. I’ve watched and analyzed them all. I could speak the language.
So I just walked in. It was actually pretty easy to fit in.What gave you the confidence that you could do it?Frankly, in the beginning I got excited. I said, “Yes, I’ll read it.” I read it, got excited, took a couple of meetings with the producers to talk about notes and ideas and stuff like that.