Neal Moritz on Fast and Furious 8, Fast 9 and 1. More. Shortly before The Fate of the Furious smashed box office records around the world, I landed an exclusive interview with producer Neal Moritz. If you’re not aware, Moritz has produced every single installment in the franchise under the banner of his production company Original Film. He’s a key component of the films and someone that’s helped shepherd a small movie about people stealing cars to one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. During our interview, Moritz talked about when he first realized Fast & Furious could be pivoted into what it has now become, the importance of organic diversity in casting, collaborating with the various directors that have helmed the films, how quickly they start making the next film after finishing the previous one, if they’ve started prepping Fast 9 and 1. Cuba, how Vin Diesel is involved in every aspect of the films, and a lot more. Check out what he had to say below.

COLLIDER: Before we talk about The Fate of the Furious, let’s go backwards. When did you first realize that the franchise could be pivoted into what it has now become?

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Image via Universal Pictures. MORITZ: I think the first indication I ever had that it was something more than just a small street culture, car culture movie was after the first test screening in 2. I walked out to the parking lot and I just saw kids in their cars going crazy and kids just congregated together just talking each other’s ears out. That’s when we knew we had something a little more special than just your average run- of- the- mill film. But I don’t really think that we knew we had something that was gonna have the longevity of this until after Tokyo Drift. A cameo in Tokyo Drift of Vin . But I think when we got to 5 then it became a bit more of a big heist movie, big international heist movie, then we realized that we had something that we could probably keep going with.

My favorite in the series is Fast Five. I think that it’s just a huge step forward for the franchise. The action, everything about it, I love. Do you remember testing that movie for the first time and what the reaction was and how it compared to the other films? MORITZ: It’s interesting, I think ever since.

But I think when you start to think about the test screenings and you asked people, “What did you like the most?” I think that there’s certain sequences, whether it’s Fast Five and the vault being dragged through the city or in 6 the tank crushing cars, whether it’s 7 and jumping from building to building, or whether it’s now 8 when people can’t stop talking about the whole New York action sequence or the . I think that that’s the thing that people kind of talk about in our focus groups, because I think for the most part our scores have been pretty similar. We’ve been lucky enough that this is a movie that people just love the characters, so ultimately that’s what determines the score.

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One of the things I love about the Fast and Furious franchise is the diversity of the cast. You’d think more studios would look at what you guys are doing and being, “We need to copy this” but they don’t. Why is that? Image via Universal. MORITZ: I think they’ve tried many, many times. Need for Speed tried it. I think there’s a lot of movies that try it, but I think that the audiences are smart enough to understand that when it feels organic, it feels real, they like that. But when they feel like they’re just being talked down to, “Oh, we’re just gonna put a black guy and a Hispanic guy, a Latino girl.

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I think it has to be organic project and it has to fit the project. You’ve had a number of different directors on the franchise.

Can you talk about collaborating with all of them and how are they different or the same? MORITZ: I mean, look, we’ve obviously worked with Rob Cohen, John Singleton, Justin Lin, James Wan, F. Gary Gray, and what we’ve encouraged every one of them to do is to make it their own, to really try to make it their own and really put their own style on it and kind of let us help them when it gets outside of what a Fast and Furious movie is. Really that’s what we sort of function as, kind of the sounding board for that. I want each of these guys to push it as far as they can and try to make it as much as their own film and with their own identity and their own style and their own music, really give it their vibe. That’s why we definitely are hiring –Sometimes we go out and say, “Honestly guys, I don’t think that’s a feature in a Fast and Furious film” and luckily we’ve had a very, very collaborative relationship.

I remain good friends with all of them. In fact, I’m shooting the S. W. A. T. TV pilot with Justin right now, I’m developing another show with James Wan right now, I’ve been talking to Gary Gray about many different things. So I think we really encourage a collaborative process, we really want them to put their individual stamps on it.

With Furious 7 you guys did the impossible as you made a great movie that also honored Paul Walker. I know the original ending was going to open the world of Fast and Furious a little bit more. I’m sure what ended up on screen is obviously different than what you originally anticipated doing. Can you talk about what you originally had as the ending of Furious 7? Image via Universal. MORITZ: Honestly, I cannot remember what the original ending was, I’d have to go look back. But, unfortunately, Paul’s passing gave us the best ending that any Fast and Furious movie could ever have, because it honored him as a true colleague, and more importantly as a great friend to all of us.

We were so torn after the accident about actually going to finish the film, and it wasn’t until Chris Morgan came with the idea of the road at the end splitting that we felt like we could actually make a movie and finish that movie. Up until that point we were really just like, “We’re not gonna finish the movie.” That was truly him just obviously smiling down on us that allowed us to finish that movie and for it to work out the way it did both creatively and commercially. We were just so determined to honor him and his legacy, and if that would’ve been the end of the Fast and Furious franchise, I would’ve been fine with it. Over the past few years the movies seem to come out every other year. How soon are you working on the next one from when the last one finishes? MORITZ: There’s other people who are involved who like to think kind of ahead while we’re making each movie.

But personally, I’m the one who’s always saying, “Let’s make this one great, and then we’ll think of what we’re gonna do next.” We have some overarching thoughts of what we’re gonna do through the next few films, but we won’t start putting any of it together until Monday when we get through this. We just truly –I know you saw it at Cinema. Con, we finished the movie like two days before Cinema. Con. We’ve been working until the last minute. This movie didn’t even start shooting less than a year ago, probably like 1. So that’s what we’ve been concerned about, we’ve been concerned about making this one great.

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MORITZ: No, not when you have 2. Beatriz At Dinner (2017) Ipod Movie. VFX shots. After Furious 7 Vin talked about wanting to make three more films and end the franchise after number 1.

MORITZ: Our plan is to go as quickly as we can under the idea that we gotta have a great story and be ready to go. And, honestly, we have some big themes and things we’re talking about, we’re just not there in terms of where exactly we’re gonna go yet. We kind of have the ending point of the franchise, but we don’t know the in- betweens yet. So basically, the plan is to make two more movies? MORITZ: Yeah, the plan is to make two more movies. You mentioned that you guys came up with the ending point for movie 1.

I ask if that was a Chris Morgan thing, was that a Vin Diesel thing, was that you guys all in the room together and realizing, “This is where we want it to ultimately end”?

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