Fast and Furious 8 Has Finally Found A Director

You may or may have not have heard through the internet, various websites or through Vin Diesel's own Facebook page but if you haven't heard then here it is: There will be a Fast and Furious 8 and it will be located in New York, but there hasn't been a decision made on who will direct this...as Vin Diesel said himself on his own Facebook page:

"My producing partner Neal (Moritz) would love for me to just sign off on a director, but this is too special a franchise, so these matters have to be very carefully handled. To be clear, NO ONE has been offered to helm Fast 8...let alone seen a script".

But today it looks like the search for a director is now over:

And possibly a trilogy might be on the way, also as according to Vin Diesel's own Facebook page:

"Universal has been so good to me and so trusting of the vision...they have been like family...I promised the studio and I promised I would deliver one last Trilogy to end the saga. I will announce the directors on my next post".

And sure enough this picture pops up:



So this looks like to me that a director has been chosen out of all the names that were thrown into the hat such as Louis Leterrier who has directed "Transporter 2", "The Incredible Hulk", "Clash Of The Titans" and "Now You See Me",- (this film in case your wondering was the film that starred Jesse Eisenberg, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Woody Harelsson all have their own magic tricks but all of them are mysteriously contacted and put together to form "the four horseman", and during one of their performances they pull off a heist showing the audience that they have seemingly at random chosen a man out of the audience and that he has been transported to France and into the bank vault of one of France's biggest banks and then they disappear, this leads to Interpol sending someone from France to get the money back but also the FBI send in Mark Ruffalo to arrest the team all the time having Morgan Freeman playing a character called Thaddeus Bradley wanting to find out the secrets of these magicians as that's his job as he makes money doing this, but by the end of the movie there's the ingenious twist that Mark Ruffalo put all these magicians together and has each given this "the four horsemen" the opportunity to be invited into "The Magician's Circle")-...

And that Deadline Hollywood.com's website through The Hollywood Reporter's suggestions of William Eubank (he has directed "The Signal") and Adam Wingard (he has directed "You're Next" and "The Guest") maybe also directing this next film in the franchise were all wrong and that the honour of directing this next Fast and Furious film has gone to by the looks of this picture F. Gary Grey who has just directed "Straight Outta Compton" for Universal Studios, "The Italian Job" (the Marky Mark remake with Charliz Theron) and "A Man Apart" that also starred the man of this very same Fast and Furious franchise Vin Diesel all the way back in 2003 has been chosen for this role of director.

And by this link to F. Gary Grey's Twitter page, we the fans like myself of this movie franchise now know the date for the next film in this series:

http://twitter.com/FGaryGray/status/652181877587992576/photo/1

But this date as well as this news about the director could all change.

But with Vin Diesel saying in his last post on his Facebook page saying:

"...but this is too special a franchise, so these matters have to be very carefully handled. Universal has been so good to me so trusting of the vision...they have been like family. I promised the studio I would deliver one last trilogy to end the saga. I will announce the directors on my next post..."

Empire Magazine's website seem to think that this might be suggesting that there will be possibly more than one director at the helm for this next Fast and Furious film...interesting theory...very interesting I'd say, I guess we'll have to wait and see if this theory is just that a theory or there really will be more than one director at the helm of this film.