Fast, furious, and extremely expensive! That\u2019s the current state of one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest film franchises. It began with a cop trying to prevent DVD player theft and has since explored storylines that deal with global geopolitics and space travel. Consequently, it\u2019s now facing a new \u201cbraking\u201d (hoho) point behind the scenes.<\/p>\n
According to a new report from the WSJ<\/a>, F&F\u2019s latest installment, Fast X, cost an eye-watering $340 million, which makes it one of the priciest movies ever made. Unfortunately, it didn\u2019t make the kind of coin that Universal were expecting at the box office, and now it\u2019s facing some major budget cuts.<\/p>\n Studio execs reportedly told F&F\u2019s producers to cut $100 million or more from the budget of the next entry (tentatively titled Fast X: Part 2), and the new target is about $200 million, which is still absolutely massive but much cheaper than Fast X<\/a>.<\/p>\n How will they make these cuts? Well, there are options \u2013 like fewer exotic locations, scaled-back stunts and set pieces, and even smaller roles (or no role at all) for some veteran cast members. This would presumably not affect star and producer Vin Diesel<\/a>, who has quite a bit of influence over the franchise\u2019s direction and may end up battling the studio over his vision for the series\u2019 capstone movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fast, furious, and extremely expensive! That\u2019s the current state of one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest film franchises. It began…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-196947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}