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“Fast & Furious” action
heroes Dwayne Johnson and
Jason Statham are looking
to pull off what may be their
most over-the-top stunt yet:
a successful spinoff from an
18-year-old Hollywood fran-
chise.
Universal Pictures this
weekend releases “Fast &
Furious Presents: Hobbs &
Shaw,” the ninth movie in
the action-thriller series.
Johnson and Statham
reprise their roles as lawman
Luke Hobbs and mercenary
Deckard Shaw, respectively,
in their own international
adventure that will test the
limits of the franchise’s ap-
peal.
Studios have previously
tried to expand their block-
buster film brands with so-
called stand-alone movies,
but such efforts have pro-
duced mixed results. Dis-
ney’s high-priced “Solo: A
Star Wars Story” grossed a
disappointing $392.9 million
last year. Paramount Pic-
tures’ “Bumblebee,” based
on a “Transformers” charac-
ter, collected a decent $468
million.Chinese market may
be key to film’s fate
“Hobbs & Shaw,” which
hits theaters Thursday, is
expected to generate $60
million to $65 million in
ticket sales from the U.S.
and Canada through Sun-
day, according to people who
have reviewed pre-release
audience surveys.
That would be enough to
unseat Disney’s computer-
generated remake of “The
Lion King” as the top movie,
domestically. However, it
would also be the lowest
opening for a “Fast & Furi-
ous” movie since 2006’s “The
Fast and the Furious: Tokyo
Drift” launched with about
$24 million. The latest entry,
2017’s “The Fate of the Furi-
ous,” opened with $98.8 mil-lion in North America and
ended up with $1.24 billion in
global grosses off its $250-
million budget.
“Hobbs & Shaw,” which
also stars Idris Elba as the
genetically enhanced villain,
cost an estimated $200 mil-
lion to make.
One question mark is the
Chinese market, where the
“Fast & Furious” franchise
has done massive business
in recent years. “Hobbs &
Shaw,” directed by David
Leitch (“Deadpool 2”),
doesn’t open there until
Aug. 23, well after it begins
its run in the U.S. and other
countries. Still, Johnson and
Statham have strong appeal
for audiences in China,
which is the world’s second-
largest box office market.Fairy-tale ending
for ‘Hollywood’?
Box-office analysts will
also be paying close atten-
tion to the second weekend
of Quentin Tarantino’s
“Once Upon a Time ... in Hol-
lywood,” a major gamble by
Sony Pictures.
The movie, set in 1969 Los
Angeles, opened with a
strong $41.1 million in the
U.S. and Canada last week-
end, but it will have to con-
tinue to do strong business
to justify its $90-million pro-
duction budget. The latest
movie from the “Pulp Fic-
tion” director could gross an
additional $20 million to $22
million Friday through Sun-
day, according to sources.
Meanwhile, Disney con-
tinues to dominate the sum-
mer box office with movies
including its technologically
advancedversion of “The Li-
on King,” which this week
crossed the $1 billion box-of-
fice milestone. It’s the fourth
Disney movie to take in more
than $1 billion in receipts
this year, following “Captain
Marvel,” “Avengers:
Endgame” and “Aladdin.”
Hits such as “The Lion
King” have helped the U.S.-
Canada box office pick up
steam after a lackluster first
half of the year. Movies have
generated $6.83 billion so far
this year, down 6.5% from
the same period in 2018, ac-
cording to data firm Com-
score.MOVIE PROJECTOR
‘Fast’ spinoff
gets road test
DWAYNE JOHNSON,left, and Jason Statham star
in “Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.”Daniel SmithUniversal Pictures‘Hobbs & Shaw’ may
win weekend, but can
it match the ‘Furious’
franchise’s usual pace?
By Ryan FaughnderGrowing up in Rabat,
Morocco, author Laila
Lalami loved “Adventures of
Tintin” comic books and
identified with Tintin, a
young reporter who solves
crimes.
“It’s only as an adult that
I realized I wasn’t Tintin. I
was the native in those
books,” Lalami told a crowd
of more than 300 at the Skir-
ball Cultural Center. “Some
of the representations are
extremely racist. Stories are
so powerful. They can make
you root for your own op-
pressor.”
Lalami joined the Los
Angeles Times Book Club
Tuesday night to discuss
“The Other Americans,” a
novel that explores themes
of immigration, grief and
family.
A black-and-white child-
hood photo of Lalami bury-
ing her head in the French
comic appeared during a vi-
deo introduction of the au-
thor and her work. During a
conversation with Times TV
critic Lorraine Ali, Lalami
said an underrepresenta-
tion of cultures in movies
and other media motivates
her to incorporate Moroccan
characters in each of her
books.
Ali pointed out that “The
Other Americans,” Lalami’s
fourth novel, isn’t about be-
ing Moroccan, but about un-
ravelling a crime story.
In the first sentence, a
Moroccan immigrant and
restaurant owner named
Driss Guerraoui dies in a hit-
and-runat an intersection in
a Southern California desert
town. The novel follows nine
characters connected to
Driss, the father and hus-
band of a Moroccan immi-
grant family who made a
home in Yucca Valley, Calif.
His two adult daughters,
widow, a police detective, an
immigrant from Mexico,
neighbors and a daughter’s
high school friend take turns
narrating their lives and
moving the plot forward to
reveal whether Driss’ death
was an accident or attack.
Their interior dialogue also
questions American identity
and the expectations that
come with it.
When asked how she
managed to wrangle all
those viewpoints into one
story, Lalami responded by
paraphrasing another Los
Angeles writer. “Ray Brad-bury has this saying, ‘Take a
leap and build your wings on
the way down.’”
Lalami said she initially
wrote the book in the third
person, focusing on two
characters: Driss’ daughter
Nora and her friend Jeremy.
But her editor asked
whether she might be short-
changing the story’s minor
characters. Lalami then
wrote 50 pages from differ-
ent first-person perspec-
tives as an experiment and
decided to rewrite the book
this way. It took about four
and a half years to complete
“The Other Americans.”
“If we knew how difficult
it was to write, none of us
would be writers,” Lalami
said.
One of the characters
had insomnia because
Lalami didwhile working on
the book. “Why should I suf-
fer alone?” she joked.
On Tuesday night, three
guest speakers took the
stage to read passages from
the novel they connectedwith the most. Aida Ylanan,
from the Times data desk,
shared from a chapter told
from the perspective of
Driss’ widow Maryam — a
grocery store scene that re-
minded Ylanan of her Fil-
ipino parents and the chal-
lenges of communicating
through a foreign language.
She also shared a colorful
map created by Data Desk
Editor Ben Welsh tracking
the narratives of the book’s
nine characters.
Los Angeles author
Steph Cha, who will release
her novel “Your House Will
Pay” in October, read a pas-
sage in which Driss’ daugh-
ter Nora recalls seeing her
father’s doughnut shop set
on fire after 9/11. Cha said she
connected with Nora’s
“Americanness” and “sec-
ond-generation sensibil-
ities.”
Times Director of Edito-
rial Events C.J. Jackson
talked about the awkward-
ness of the characters in the
novel. He read an excerpt
from the perspective of Jere-
my, Nora’s high school
friend, as he stepped into the
Guerraoui family’s home for
the first time.
Lalami told the audience
her next project is a nonfic-
tion book, “Conditional Citi-
zens,” which starts with her
U.S. naturalization ceremo-
ny. The book will explore the
relationship between state
and individual throughout
20 years and how citizenship
is determined through back-
ground, race and gender.The next Book Club event
will be in September. For
updates, sign up at
latimes.com/bookclub.LAILA Lalami, right, and a fan at a Los Angeles Times Book Club event for her book “The Other Americans.”
Dania MaxwellLos Angeles TimesL.A. TIMES BOOK CLUB
How we all long to belong
Author Laila Lalami
on the power of
stories and being ‘The
Other’ in America.
By Vera Castaneda
THE AUTHOR, left, speaks on stage about her new
novel with Los Angeles Times TV critic Lorraine Ali.Dania MaxwellLos Angeles Times