With the primary Quick & Livid movie collection starting its closing lap with this summer season’s Quick X, followers of Common’s motion franchise shall be reuniting with a variety of acquainted faces. Together with the core crew that features Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, Michelle Rodriguez’s Letty Ortiz and Tyrese Gibson’s Roman Pearce, amongst others, we’ll additionally see of us like John Cena’s Jakob Toretto, Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw and even Scott Eastwood’s Little No person again in motion. Now it appears like we are able to add two extra names to that checklist due to a social media replace from Diesel.
Tego Calderón’s Tego Leo and Don Omar’s Rico Santos have been launched to the Quick & Livid world in 2009’s Quick & Livid, and whereas they went on to play integral roles in Quick 5, they’ve since both been absent from later films or solely made cameo appearances. Properly, evidently we are able to depend on Leo and Santos being current for Quick X given one of many hashtags Vin Diesel included within the under Instagram put up:
Whereas it’s potential Vin Diesel threw in #FastX merely to get extra eyes on the put up, since that is the penultimate film within the Quick Saga (which doesn’t embody spinoffs like Hobbs & Shaw 2), it definitely wouldn’t be surprising if Leo and Santos are thrown into the combo. In spite of everything, together with being members of Dominic Toretto’s crew within the franchise’s present-day occasions, F9 revealed that Dom met these two whereas he was in jail as an adolescent, with the youthful Leo and Santos being respectively performed by Cered and Ozuna. Frankly, it’d be unusual if we didn’t see the duo once more earlier than all is claimed and executed.
Following the duo briefly serving to out in The Destiny of the Livid, solely Santos was round throughout F9’s present-day occasions. He appeared within the closing minutes on the Toretto barbecue and knowledgeable Mia that Leo had opened a restaurant in Brooklyn that served unhealthy meals and was frequented by hipsters. Whereas Quick X already has a stacked forged, fingers crossed that if Leo and Santos are certainly showing, they’ll have a major quantity to do moderately than simply cameo once more.
So far as new faces in Quick X go, the primary trailer revealed that Jason Momoa’s villainous character has a direct tie to Quick 5, as he’s Dante Reyes, the son of Hernan Reyes, that film’s principal antagonist. In spite of everything these years, Dante is looking for revenge for Dominic Toretto and his crew for killing his father, so between him and the return of Charlize Theron’s Cipher, our protagonists can have lots on their pate. Quick X will even function Rita Moreno as Dom, Mia and Jakob’s grandmother, Brie Larson as Tess, Alan Ritchson as Agent Aimes and Daniela Melchior as a Brazilian road racer who goes manner again with Dom.
Directed by Louis Leterrier, who took over from Justin Lin after he left one week into principal images, and written by Lin, Zach Dean and Dan Mazeau, Quick X speeds into theaters on Could 19. It’s one of many many 2023 new films releases CinemaBlend will proceed to share updates about, however be sure to’ve rewatched F9 along with your HBO Max subscription earlier than seeing the subsequent installment.
