Michelle Rodriguez Agrees To ‘Furious 9’ After Female Writer Is

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Between Avatar and 5 Fast and Furious motion pictures, in addition to lesser titles like S.W.A.T. and Battle: Los Angeles (they made greater than you may assume!), Michelle Rodriguez is among the highest-grossing actors of all-time. She’s a necessary a part of the way forward for the Fast franchise, and she or he used her mixed field workplace/Letty Ortiz clout to make sure Furious 9 has extra feminine illustration.

Back in June 2017, she wrote on Instagram, “I hope they decide to show some love to the women of the franchise on the next one. Or I just might have to say goodbye to a loved franchise.” Universal Pictures will need to have been paying consideration: based on Bloomberg, “Michelle Rodriguez has agreed to return within the ninth installment of the Fast & Furious film franchise, however solely after securing settlement for a feminine author to affix the manufacturing.” (Every Fast film, together with Hobbs and Shaw, was written by a man, normally Chris Morgan.)

“I felt like there was not enough of a female voice in the franchise,” Rodriguez mentioned on Thursday on the Bloomberg Future of Equality Summit in London. “You should evolve with the times, not just pander to certain demographics that are stuck” prior to now. (Via)

On prime of the ninth Fast and Furious movie (subtitle: The Rise of Toretto), there’s additionally the female-led spinoff, which is being written by Nicole Perlman (who’s labored on all the things from Guardians of the Galaxy to Detective Pikachu), Lindsey Beer, and Geneva Robertson-Dworet.

(Via Bloomberg)