It wasn’t just the action set-pieces in the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Fast and Furious 9 trailer that had jaws dropping: the plot twists were equally gasp-inducing. As well as introducing John Cena as Dom Toretto’♊s long-lost brother, Jakob, the trailer also revealed that Han (Sung Kang) had returned from🐠 the grave.
The franchise has a tradition of bringing characters back from presumed death, and there has been a longstanding #JusticeForHan campaign online. The characterꦇ first appeared in director Ju♒stin Lin’s low-budget crime drama Better Luck Tomorrow, before being seemingly killed off in Tokyo Drift.
The Fast series’ chronology meant Han appeared in subsequent ‘prequel’ film, and in Fast and Furious 6, it’s revealed that Han was ‘k🉐illed’ by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham). The fact that Deckard later became cosy with the crew was contentious for some Fast fans.
“Han means so much to me because he was a character before Fast & Furious,” Justin Liꦇn tells our sister publication in their new cover story. Appropriately enough, it was at a 15th anniversary Sundance screening of Better Luck Tomorrow that Lin first learned about the #JusticeForHan c🃏ampaign.
“Somebody asked me about Han and [Deckard] Shaw,&rd🅠quo; says 💫Lin. “I was like: ‘Wait, what? Shaw is at the barbecue in 8?’ [laughs] Really, I was so confused. One of the big reasons to come back was I felt like we needed to correct something.”
Precisely how Han returns is one of the film’s closely guarded secrets, though (much) stranger things have happened in the Fast films. “Let’s just ꦚsay we’re not hiding the fact that a lot of the stuff is crazy!” co-star Michelle Rodriguez says. It’s Letty who announces Han’s return in the Fast 9 trailer, and she’ll be instrumental in bringing Han back into the fold. “In a lot of ways these movies are like the Olympic games. There are a lot of cultures that feel represented by individual characteꩵrs from the franchise. And Han does that for an entire community.”
Lin, Rodriguez, Vin Diesel, John Cena, and Jordana Brewster speak in ♔detail about the movie in Total Film magazine’s exclusive cover feature. The new issue hits newsstands on February 17. Fast & Furious 9 opens in cinemas on May 22.
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I'm the Editor at Total Film magazine, overseeing the running of the mag, and generally obsessing over all things Nolan, Kubrick and Pixar. Over the past decade I've worked in various roles for TF online and in print, including at GamesRadar+, and you can often hear me nattering on the Inside Total Film podcast. Bucket-list-ticking career highlights have included reporting fro🥀m the set of Tenet and Avengers: Infinity War, as well as covering Comic-Con, TIFF and the Su🤡ndance Film Festival.
