3 Actors that Should be in Fast and Furious Immediately

I saw the news that The Rock won't be returning to the Fast and Furious franchise and it made me quite happy. I'm not a fan of The Rock in general. I don't find the character that he plays entertaining anymore. I've seen that character in 3 movies a year since 2010. I'm done with it.

I think the Fast and Furious franchise also needs to revitalize itself and have a renaissance. The Rock in Fast and Furious is the max player on the team that's a perennial 7th seed. Ya, he's good, but you need to get him out of there and step back before you can step forward.

I don't want any of these people to just play Hobbs either. This also isn't what I think the franchise should do to revitalize itself as a whole. These are just the 7 guys I'd like to add to the Fast and Furious franchise now that The Rock is gone.

Pablo Schreiber

You may not know who this mountain of a man is but he's got some of the greatest "I'm from LA and just a full-blown badass" screen presence I've ever seen (You can witness this in Den fo Thieves). He can beat the shit out of people, stare people down, and is also just a great actor.

If I'm being completely honest, Pablo should've played Jacob in F9. John Cena is not great in action movies where he's supposed to be serious. He's pretty good when he's supposed to be funny. Pablo would've been a great Jacob, so here's what we do, we just bring him in. He's a street racer from New York and he's gotten to the point that Dom as at in Fast 5, robbing big banks, and Dom has to try and stop him but, in the end, Dom lets him go and they have a mutual understanding. Dom is passing the torch.

The next big thing that Pablo is going to be in is the Halo show on Paramount+. I'm sure it'll be ok but I don't think people will watch it. I want Pablo, the Canadian-American talent that hasn't been explored enough

Joe Manganiello

I think Joe needs a hit. He's too good to be Deathstroke in an epilogue to an epilogue to an epilogue. He's got a lot of natural charisma and would be a fantastic addition to the team. We need his chops and his charm.

A leading man's body with a funny friend's personality. Joe would be the guy that Dom knows in some random place like Australia but he's not Australian but he's the most famous guy in all of Australia and the best drive. He joins the team because the next baddie is Huge Jackman or some Australian action hero and only Joe knows how to get him.

I think Joe is a home run if he joins F&F. I know he's a bit of a geek but these movies are pretty geeky. Vin needs to get Joe in here as an Aussie stationed street racer.

Henry Golding

There's only one Asian character that's had a major role in the F&F franchise and that's obviously Han played by Sung Kang. Han is my favourite character after Brian but I see them running into some trouble with Han now that he's back. The first is the fact that the team is so big there may not be room for his cool demeanour.

I'd love to see a Han spinoff set after F9 where he starts getting back into the drifting scene in Tokyo and the new drift king is a Malaysian guy who's unmatched in the scene and played by Henry Golding. Maybe at the end, Han takes him under his wing and we can have them do a couple of movies together.

I really liked Henry in The Gentlemen (Underrated) and Snake Eyes looks pretty interesting but G.I. Joe is a hard sell to audiences. I don't think it's a title that will pull people to the movies in the early stages of going back and it's competing with M. Night Shyamalan which is what the buzz will be focused on, good or bad.

Conclusion

The biggest hurdle seems to be Vin. He's come to realize that this franchise will be seen as his life's work which is very impressive but on the way here he tried to throw a bunch of stuff out there and it never stuck. XXX, The Last Witch Hunter, Riddick, even Bloodshot were all fizzlers. But the Fast and Furious franchise is one of the best-performing franchises of all time.

It makes sense that he's protecting it but if you helicopter parent too much your kid is going to have trouble living when you aren't around. Vin needs to start setting the franchise up to live when he's not around sooner rather than later so bringing in some younger, or new, blood and building them up is essential.