STACK #130 Aug 2016

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THE ROAD AHEAD After almost 15 years behind the wheel, Vin Diesel drives into a new frontier in Fast & Furious 7 .

sequential order, the way that you intended them to be, how does that feel? Miraculous. The fact that the audience has allowed us to jump around in the chronology of Fast and has been willing to take that

It’s been almost 15 years since the F&F team first took to the streets of LA. How do you wrap your head around this ride that you’ve been on for years? VIN DIESEL: The first thing I do is think how blessed I am to be a part of something that has reached the kind of success that none of us ever really anticipated. And so much has happened to me in my personal life; I’ve become a father and I’d like to think that I matured a little bit. I can’t

stress enough how much of an impossible task this might have felt like 15 years ago. Each time out you’ve upped the ante: more cars, bigger, better action, but the heart and the emotion have certainly been pumped

Vin Diesel with director James Wan

ride, and has stayed with us, is a feat in itself, because, you know, Fast & Furious 7 is the first time we are beyond Tokyo Drift . There’s something very exciting about that, because now we’re truly in a new frontier. One of the most important reasons for doing the movie was to now go onto that unknown road that is Fast & Furious 7 and beyond. After all the team has been through, is it all catching up with them now? All the events from the previous movies, and even some events that the audience has never seen before but they know are in the mythology

in Fast & Furious 7 . How important is that balance? My approach to filmmaking is always one of integrity, regardless of whether it’s a drama piece or whether it lives in the world of action. The idea that we could even attempt to one-up the stunts and the action sequences is fun, and it’s a rich challenge. But increasing the emotional stakes is what will set this saga apart from any other movie. The emotional heartbeat of the movie is something that everyone we know can relate to – everyone we know is invested in.

The idea that the films are finally in

of Fast & Furious , will all come together in this movie. Questions are answered and new thoughts are proposed. And you’ll see when you watch the movie, that themes that have been initiated or themes that have been planted in previous movies, all come full circle here. At the end of Fast & Furious 6 , we met your new foe in a very dramatic way. Dom has faced serious opponents before. How dangerous is Deckard Shaw? It was imperative to introduce

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