Fast and Furious Hollywood Puts the Crunch on 4th Installment

The latest rumors on The Fast and the Furious 4 indicate that time is running out on the popular street-racing film franchise. An imminent industry-wide strike, predicted to bring all of Hollywood grinding to a halt by the end of next June, is tightening the noose on the Fast filmmakers, who are now forced to begin filming by March. Problem is, the film as yet has no script, and Tokyo Drift director Justin Lin is only tentatively connected to the project at this point. Even the casting is still a little up in the air; while producers hoped to bring back a lot of the original players, including Paul Walker and Vin Diesel, actors are already overbooked in preparation for the strike and may be hard to get. CarDomain predicts that the fiasco may in fact work out well for The Fast and the Furious 4, with the time-crunch cultivating the kind of badly-written dialogue and cornball acting that we’ve come to expect from the series.  As long as someone says something along the lines of "I live my life one quarter-mile at a time," I’ll be happy.