The MonsterVerse Will Reportedly Introduce [SPOILERS]

In most cases, a well-known franchise introducing brand new characters several films in that turn out to be long-lost or distant relations of the veteran players is a sign the creative tank is beginning to run empty. Look no further than Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker for an example of what happens when you start throwing third-generation Skywalkers and Palpatines into the melting pot, and it wasn’t even explicitly stated that Jannah was Lando’s daughter, either.

Fast & Furious 9 got away with bringing in John Cena’s Jakob Toretto, but that’s only because the series dropped any semblance of common sense a long time ago, so fans will be on board with almost anything that happens, no matter how nonsensical. However, we’re hearing from our sources – the same ones who told us Warner Bros. were inviting pitches for Harry Potter TV shows long before it was confirmed – that the MonsterVerse might be the latest multi-billion dollar behemoth to follow suit.

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It’s already been widely rumored that Adam Wingard’s mysterious Godzilla vs. Kong sequel would be Son of Kong, but we could also be getting the offspring of Godzilla in a future project. Admittedly, that’s not the most ingenious or exciting idea we’ve ever heard, but if they stuck to the original iterations of the kaiju offspring then it would be hilarious.

In 1933’s Son of Kong, the titular primate drowns to death shortly after being introduced in a movie that’s less than 70 minutes long, while Godzilla has two equally goofy-looking and largely useless sons named Godzilla Jr. and Minilla. If that’s the route the MonsterVerse wants to head down, then we’re fully on board, even if expanding the family is about the least interesting way to continue building out the mythology.

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Fast & Furious Star Wants To See At Least 1 R-Rated Installment

As one of the most lucrative franchises in the history of cinema, with the recent ninth installment bringing combined box office takings up to almost $6.4 billion, Fast & Furious knows full well that the property’s signature brand of logic, physics and gravity-defying pyrotechnics is what puts butts in seats all over the world.

It’s also been a staunchly PG-13 enterprise since the very beginning, which is something that seems unlikely to change when you look at the numbers the series keeps pulling in, but Sung Kang would love to see The Fast Saga mix it up at least once. In a new interview with ScreenRant, the longtime star admitted that he’d be very intrigued to see what would happen were the shackles to be taken off.

“I’d like to see the Fast films, at least one of them, go rated R. Go super dark, to see where that could go. I don’t know which character that’s going to be, somebody has to go dark, really dark. And maybe it would be cool to see.”

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The tenth and eleventh chapters will be sticking to the family-friendly rating, but there’s no reason why one of the many inevitable spinoffs and offshoots to follow in its wake couldn’t take things down a darker path. Given his history as en elite military intelligence operative who became a cold-blooded criminal killer, Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw reads as the ideal candidate, especially when the actor is no stranger to the R-rated action thriller.

Of course, he’s still on track to re-team with Dwayne Johnson for another Hobbs & Shaw outing, so we can probably take that one off the table. That’s not to say it can’t happen in the future, even if a gritty Fast & Furious movie with much harder edges than audiences have become used to seeing might stick out like a sore thumb given the increasingly loose grip on reality that’s characterized the franchise’s evolution over the last decade.

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