There’s a brand new villain on the Quick & Livid block, and he’s being performed by Aquaman and Dune actor Jason Momoa. As was revealed earlier this month within the first Quick X trailer, Momoa was solid as Dante Reyes, the son of Hernan Reyes, the late foremost antagonist from 2011’s Quick 5. Dante is now out for revenge in Quick X, and director Louis Leterrier has joined in on hyping up Momoa’s character, in addition to touched on his connection to Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto.
Shortly after the Quick X trailer premiered, Louis Leterrier opened up about why Jason Momoa’s character was linked to Quick 5, noting that how there’s a “value for justice” and a “value to Dom’s decisions,” and Dante Reyes exemplifies that. Leterrier extra not too long ago described Dante as “whole chaos” to Whole Movie and talked about how “obsessed” the character is with Dom. In his phrase:
Dante is in awe of Dom. He’s analyzed him. There’s nowhere to cover, as a result of he is aware of Dom higher than he is aware of himself. Dom actually meets his match with Dante. Household goes each methods. There’s household in your facet. There’s additionally household on the opposite individual’s facet. When the household that was your super-strength turns into your Achilles’ heel, it’s the place you’re going to get wounded essentially the most.
Household has been the driving theme (pun totally supposed) of the Quick & Livid franchise for the reason that starting, and as we hit the tenth installment in the principle movie collection, Dom has assembled a big lineup of people that may have his again it doesn’t matter what. The draw back is that with so many individuals he cares about, that simply provides Dante Reyes extra folks to focus on. As Louis Leterrier revealed, Dante has extensively studied Vin Diesel’s character and the folks in his tight-knit circle, so he is aware of these weak factors to hit. Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw adopted an identical plan of action in Livid 7 when he “killed” Han (he didn’t truly die), however now Deckard’s one of many good guys.
It’s too quickly to inform the place Dante Reyes will stack up within the hierarchy of Quick & Livid villains, however going off what we’ve seen thus far, he’s not missing for aptitude and has the assets to place the damage on Dominic Toretto and his crew. What hasn’t been clarified but is that if Dante is working alone in Quick X or if he’s in cahoots with Charlize Theron’s Cipher, who was launched in The Destiny of the Livid, however has been inflicting bother on this world way back to Quick & Livid 6. It additionally hasn’t been confirmed but if Momoa shall be again for Quick & Livid 11, the ultimate entry in the principle movie collection, or if we’ll solely see him trigger bother on this one film.
We’ll get the total scope of what Jason Momoa’s Dante Reyes is able to when Quick X comes out on Might 19. Don’t neglect to look at F9 forward of time along with your HBO Max subscription to refresh your reminiscence on the place issues we’re left off, and have a look by way of the opposite 2023 new film releases.
