Vin Diesel Wants Fast & Furious Finale To Be ‘The Best Movie Ever Made’

Vin Diesel has a simple goal for the Fast & Furious finale: to make ‘the best movie ever made.’ 

Twenty years ago, Dom Toretto was tearing up Los Angeles with his Dodge Charger, stealing DVD players and forging a bromance with an undercover Brian O’Connor. It was Point Break on NoS; likeable, stylish, completely of its early millennium era. It was also the unlikely launchpad of one of Hollywood’s most impenetrable franchises.

More than a few quarter-miles later, the familia’s road is coming to an end. Spin-offs, prequels, Hobbs or Shaws aside, the mainline series will conclude with a two-part finale – and its leading man wants to go out with the biggest bang of all. Let’s just hope it’s not a backfire.

When asked how he feels going from boosting DVD players to tackling John Cena through a window in Edinburgh, he burst into a laugh. ‘That was fun,’ he said.  ‘How do I feel… I feel so grateful and so blessed. At the same time, so inspired to attempt to make the best movie that’s ever been made as the finale, the two-part finale.’

‘So it’s a combination really, Cameron: in one part, extreme gratitude; and a disbelief that it would even be possible. I was lifting DVD players, I was engaged in illegal street car races, and now the world watches Dom put his son to sleep,’ he continued.

‘It might be the best moment in cinematic history – not just in my career but in cinematic history. Men around the world were allowed to – everyone was able to cry – but men around the planet, for the first time in history, were able to cry together,’ he said.

I cried, my friends cried, we all did. Such earnestness may invite a scoff, but the success of Fast & Furious is more than supercars, outrageous stunts and scantily-clad street races (okay, it’s a big part of it). Maybe Diesel will achieve his goal.

‘I feel grateful, I feel blessed, sometimes I feel in pure disbelief, but I feel so deeply inspired. I just wanna make the world proud with the finale, and most importantly, I want to make Pablo [Walker] proud with the finale,’ he said.

Fast & Furious 9 hits UK cinemas on June 24.