In a recent interview with Screen Rant , longtime Fast & Furious screenwriter Chris Morgan admitted that he spoke to Keanu Reeves and invited him to join the hit action-speed series.
The invitation is said to be Fast & Furious 9 – a work in which Morgan co-wrote with Daniel Casey. “I sat down with Keanu to discuss this. I wanted him to join the Fast & Furious franchise for a long time,” Morgan said.
Chris Morgan really wanted Keanu Reeves to be an official member of the Fast & Furious family before. In August, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson revealed that Reeves was close to starring in Hobbs & Shaw – a spinoff episode revolving around Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s “rival” Deckard Shaw.
The actor revealed to Screen Rant that the original plan was for Keanu Reeves to play the leader of the terrorist organization Eteon in Hobbs & Shaw . However, things did not go as planned, and the identity of the crime boss is still a mystery.
Hobbs & Shaw director David Leitch later admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that the production team showed Keanu Reeves a short film and then discussed whether to include the character expected to belong to the actor. works or not. In the end, both sides felt that this was not the right time.
If Keanu Reeves does indeed join Fast & Furious 9 and doesn’t take on the role of director of the Eteon organization, his best bet is probably a John Wick-type anti-hero.
Both Hobbs & Shaw ‘s central faces are in fact also in the gray area. Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs worked as a security guard against Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) in Fast Five , but later teamed up with Dom’s family several times to take out the bad guys.
Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw even appears to be the pure villain at first. It was he who made Han (Sung Kang) lose his life on the streets of Tokyo, Japan. But after a series of events, Deckard teamed up with the Dom family, and is now promoted to be the main character of the spin-off series.
It is not excluded that Universal still wants Keanu Reeves to be the mysterious boss of the Eteon organization in the side story series, because Hobbs & Shaw has just started, while Fast & Furious is expected to close the main storyline in part 10.
