Hollywood What If Chapter 257

  The room was a little awkward. Well, strangers had just ehis pce to start the script reading schedule. This was their first meeting and the bond was still not there. Quite a problem, sihe whole motto of Fast and The Furious was "family".

  Yep, nothis family.

  - Dom Toreto.

  To make matters worse, the director of the movie was not fluent in English. He could speak English, but his at and his speed were not so fast.

  At least you could uand him. That was enough.

  Paul Walker and Vin Diesel were the main characters of this movie. An LAPD (Brian O'or) and a notorious street racer (Dominic Toreto) respectively.

  The cht of The Fast and The Furious was quite plicated. Well, Kazir Grey made it very plicated.

  Kazir wrote the script in 1995 aered it with the Writers Guild. However, in 1998, an article about street rag ublished that had some simirities to his script. Kazir expected this because the first movie in the Fast & Furious franchise was inspired by the article.

  The name of the article was Racer X by Ken Li, published in Vibe magazine.

  To make things easier and to avoid a wsuit. Grey Pictures bought the said article for an amount of 50 thousand dolrs. Now the problem was easily solved.

  Ohat was dohe produ of Fast and The Furious roved by the ma, although Kazir was the main deaker anyway.

  The iment was made. Grey Pictures hired an insuranpany to make sure the produ was on trabsp;

  The director of the film was a Taiwanese director named Justin Lin. The man had been a director since 1997 and had made one movie. When he received an invitatirey Pictures to diree of their movies, the answer was only one.

  "Absolutely."

  This was a unique opportunity for him to break into Hollywood. The biggest show business in the world.

  For a nobody like him it was hard to turn it down. He was actually shocked and scared. He didn't expect this situation. He even thought it was a scam.

  He flew to Los Angeles just to meet Stel Willow, the General Manager of Grey Pictures.

  Justin Lihat his position in this industry was so low, so he agreed to most of her ditions. He had to do it. Otherwise the position could be taken by others.

  He signed a trad got a sary of 1 million. It was actually the highest sary he ever had.

  After that he signed with CAA and had ao help him. Salvatore Barlowe was already in a tight spot after having two directors, so it was impossible for him to get Justin Lin. CAA would not let that happen.

  "Haha, L- Let's start the script reading."

  Justin Lin announced in his unique at, wiping his sweaty brow. He was actually nervous.

  Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, still strangers, stared at each other and wondered.

  ' this guy even direct this movie? He looks like he's going to pass out from sweating so much.'

  All the actors in this movie were o the industry. None of them had established their status.

  Vin Diesel had been in some projects like Saving Private Ryan and even starred in Pitch Bck, but the guy was still not that famous. Grey Pictures could afford his sary, so yes, he was not that famous...

  The biggest reason why these actors and actresses auditioned for this movie was because of the influence of Wanted and the previous CCU movies. Hollywood predicted that the movies produced by Grey Pictures had a high aking a profit.

  For new actors/actresses who didn't have a steady career in the industry, this was the ce they didn't want to let go.

  What they didn't know was that Kazir uood the importance of this franchise. Because he knew how much money Fast & Furious could make.

  As for why Kazir didn't hire Rob , the first director of The Fast and The Furious movie. The first film cked unrealistic stunts.

  The tial ematiiverse was filled with spies, assassins and even ninjas. The movie needed spiake it iing.

  Justin Lin was the director of:

  The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (3rd sequel)

  Fast & Furious (4th sequel)

  Fast Five (5th sequel)

  Fast & Furious 6 (6th sequel)

  F9 (10th sequel)

  Many of these movies had unrealistic stunts that hyped the whole franchise.

  Cars falling from the sky with parachutes? Yes, they did.

  Military tanks that had the speed of a race car? Yes.

  Cars overtaking an airpne? Yes.

  Oh, here's another one. Cars in space? Absolutely yes.

  Kazir didn't he mellow version Fast and The Furious. He he adrenaline-pumping version of Fast and The Furious.

  He felt that Justin Lin was the right person for that. He gave the director trol over the film's a sequences, as long as it fit the tial ematiiverse.

  "Tsk, let's just go with that and finish the session."

  17-year-old Scarlett Johansson muttered, and that got the attention of the cast.

  On this project, Scarlett had perhaps the lo association with Grey Pictures, except for Harold, who was still the producer.

  Kim Mills had a brief appearan this movie.

  Nobody knew how the story would go on. Evehor has no idea...

  If there was one good thing, it was that Kazir had already written the general plot of the first movie. It was about an undercover LAPD who infiltrated a gang of criminals who were stealing expensive eleic goods...

  Kazir leveled up the plot. The gang stole military equipment instead, that brought them to the list of wanted criminals.

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  [Author's note: Yes, that was the plot of the first movie, I found it on Wikipedia. But to add in the CCU, I decided that Dom Toreto's gang stole military equipment instead.]