Empire Australasia - 03.2020

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FAST & FURIOUS 9
Nick: I really hope Vin Diesel drives that
tractor.
John: He’s going to have a tractor dirt race.
Jamie: I recognise that cross pendant that
she gives little Brian.
John: It shows up in nearly every Fast &
Furious fi lm.
Aliyah: Doesn’t it have a tracking device in
the last Fast & Furious? That’s how they fi nd
him on the plane.
Jamie: So John Cena is Vin Diesel’s brother.
Except they look nothing alike.
Joanna: It’s like Twins.
John: I don’t know — if you shaved John
Cena’s head, you’d get two beefy bald men.
But it’s really good to have Justin Lin as
director. He was responsible for the best
fi lms in this franchise by far.
Ben: The sheer physics of this mad stunt at
the end boggles the mind.
Nick: It makes Temple Of Doom look like
‘Temple Of Pleasant’!


BLACK WIDOW
John: This shot of the
Taskmaster, the big baddie, is
something we haven’t seen
before.
Ben: That’s very Captain
America-y.
John: His whole ‘thing ’ is that
he mimics the fi ghting styles
of his enemies. Which suggests
that maybe he has battled
Cap before?
Nick: What if her family turns
against her, and she has to
fi ght them?
Joanna: I think there’s going
to be some double-crossing.
Chris: Rachel Weisz looks
shifty.
John: Yeah: It’s very Cold
War-y and they’ve all got
dodgy Russian accents.
Jamie: Ah, Florence Pugh is
good, ain’t she?
John: Interesting that this
is the fi nal hero shot. Could
it imply that she’s the new
Black Widow?
Ben: I wouldn’t be surprised.
Alex: Do we need a new one?
Ben: We don’t need one. But
I’ll take it, if it means Florence
Pugh gets her own Marvel
movie!


BLACK WIDOW IS IN CINEMAS
FROM 30 APRIL


TOP GUN:
MAVERICK
Nick: More planes in this one.
But none are magnet planes.
Alex: So, is this the first word
on the plot? Goose, played
by Anthony Edwards in the
original — it’s his son that we
hear in voiceover.
John: “My dad believed in
you. I’m not going to make the
same mistake.” That’s Miles
Teller saying that. He plays
‘Rooster’. And has apparently
inherited his dad’s moustache,
passed from father to son.
Ben: Rooster has a jazzy font
on his helmet.
Nick: Does the Maverick of
the fi lm refer to Rooster?
John: No, because it would be
called ‘Top Gun: Rooster’.
Alex: This looks like a bit of a
Tony Scott homage.
Nick: It’s very Scotty.
Great Scott.
John: Do you think that heavy
breathing at the end is acting,
or he’s actually having a
mid-air panic attack?
Ben: It is very excessive
breathing there. Almost as if
they’ve...taken his breath
away. [Mass groaning]

TOP GUN: MAVERICKIS IN CINEMAS
FROM 25 JUNE

Ben: “Damn. They got a magnet plane!”
When they came up with that line, I hope
they all took the rest of the day off.
John: Ohhh! Han’s back! Mic drop!
Alex: I don’t know who that is.
John: This is Han Seoul- Oh, played by
Sung Kang.
Alex: Is he supposed to have been dead?
Nick: He was dead. But he got better.
Aliyah: He was run off the road by Jason
Statham and the car exploded.
John: But you never saw a body.
Ben: His return is a response to the whole
#JusticeForHan campaign.
John: There was a huge portion of Fast
fans who were unhappy that his death
was washed over. He was a fan favourite,
and also an Asian-American screen hero,
which is still a rare thing. There’s been hype
and rumours about his return for years.
And he’s back!

FAST & FURIOUS 9 IS IN CINEMAS FROM 21 MAY

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