Fast & Furious star Sung Kang would like to see the franchise release an R-rated installment.
“I'd like to see the [Fast & Furious] films, at least one of them, go rated R," the actor told Screen Rant. "Go super dark, to see where that could go. I don't know which character that's going to be, somebody has to go dark, really dark. And maybe it would be cool to see.”
Since its launch with The Fast and the Furious in 2001, the Fast & Furious franchise or Fast Saga has grossed $6.6 billion at the box office across ten films, including the 2019 spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. So far, however, Universal has yet to release a movie in the series that's rated higher than PG-13.
While the general rule of thumb is that PG-13 movies gross more than R-rated ones, recent years have seen several exceptions to that rule. That includes DC and Warner Bros.' Joker, which took in over $1 billion at the box office, as well as the X-Men film Logan and the Deadpool movies. Outside the world of comic book tentpoles, Warner Bros.' decidedly R-rated two-part adaptation of Stephen King's IT similarly brought in a combined $1.17 billion.
Kang is no stranger to adults-only fare, having starred opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason Momoa in Walter Hill's R-rated 2013 action/thriller Bullet to the Head, itself based on the French graphic novel Du plomb dans la tête. In fact, he's already played his Fast & Furious character Han Lue in an R-rated movie -- namely Justin Lin's 2002 crime/thriller Better Luck Tomorrow, a film that was semi-officially added to the Fast canon after Lin and Kang boarded the franchise, starting with 2003's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
All the same, there are currently no plans to take the Fast & Furious property in a darker direction like Kang wants. Instead, Universal intends to end the main Fast movies with Fast & Furious 10 and 11, which Lin has confirmed will be a single story told across two films. The studio is also working on a sequel to Hobbs & Shaw and is rumored to be developing an all-women Fast & Furious spinoff, as well as what may or may not be a separate project centered on the cyber-terrorist Cipher (Charlize Theron).
F9: The Fast Saga is now available to purchase on home media or rent on VOD. Fast & Furious 10 will hit theaters on April 7, 2023.
Source: Screen Rant
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