Warning: The following podcast contains spoilers about F9, opening Friday.Screenwriter Daniel Casey typically finds himself in front of executives and producers when he’s in a pitch meeting.
However, when he walked into the room for F9, it was an anomaly for him to pitch the pic’s director, Justin Lin, head on.Before F9, Lin directed four other films in the Universal franchise: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious, Fast Five, and Fast & Furious 6, and then took roughly a six-year hiatus from the series.
Lin already had a four page outline which Casey pitched the filmmaker on, expounding on the family drama elements in the film; the rivalry between brothers Dominic and Jakob Toretto (Vin Diesel and John Cena) and the resurrection of Sung Kang’s
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