Hobbs & Shaw does not characteristic Owen Shaw

Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw could be one half of Fast & Furious‘ new spin-off staff, however Luke Evans was initially the primary Shaw to affix the franchise. Where the hell is he in Hobbs & Shaw, then?

Well, surprise no extra, as a result of there is a good cause for his absence.

Director David Leitch chatted to Empire concerning the lacking Shaw sibling, admitting that the introduction of Vanessa Kirby’s Hattie Shaw, alongside Dame Helen Mirren’s matriarch and Jason’s Deckard, meant that there have been just too many characters.

It’s not all dangerous information for Owen Shaw, nevertheless, as Leitch did trace at a “Shaw standalone movie” sooner or later, giving Luke Evans a approach again into the collection with out stealing his on-screen brother and sister and mom’s thunder.

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“How do we focus on setting up the worlds of Shaw and Hobbs and focus on those characters? I had a lot of story to tell, regardless,” Leitch defined. “Everyone’s estranged from their family, everyone’s trying to reconnect.”

Discrediting these fan theories about Deckard being pressured to kill his “brother” by Idris Elba’s Brixton (it was at all times simply “brother ” within the shut buddy sense), Leitch added: “I had the backstory between Brixton and Shaw. There’s a lot to wrap up. I think it was saving Luke for additional stuff, in I don’t know, a Shaw standalone movie or whatever.”

Luke Evans made his Fast debut as former-Special Air Service main Owen Shaw in Fast & Furious 6, the place the military-trained felony mastermind was left in a coma till Furious 7.

Last seen recovered from his accidents in The Fate of the Furious, we reckon it is solely a matter of time earlier than Owen Shaw is again to his Fast, Furious, and preventing kind.

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Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw is out in cinemas now.

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