![]() But no title among Leterrier’s greatest hits - 2010’s Clash of the Titans (which grossed $493.2 million worldwide), The Incredible Hulk ( $254.7 million), and two installments of the mid-budget magic-crime-thriller Now You See Me (nearly $700 million combined) - necessarily suggested his suitability for the penultimate chapter of the Fast series with a budget that spiraled to $340 million. The journeyman French helmer, who got his break in the business as a production assistant on Gallic mogul Luc Besson’s 1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc, had parlayed his successful stewardship of the ’00s Transporter film series (starring future F&F stalwart Jason Statham) into a career directing respectably lucrative if not outright blockbuster movies (and later TV). Gary Gray, and James Wan were unavailable - they found their man: Louis Leterrier. ![]() Within a matter of days - after discovering that previous F&F moviemakers David Leitch, F. With A-list talent already cast, international locations already secured, and production money burning like an out-of-control forest fire, producers on the tenth Fast and Furious installment and the movie’s studio distributor Universal began scrambling for a replacement. In April 2022, just one week after filming on Fast X had begun, its director, Justin Lin, reportedly found himself in a “ major disagreement” with Diesel and dramatically quit over “creative differences” (Lin stayed on to produce and is one of its credited writers). ![]() In Hollywood-production-run-amok terms, it was the directorial equivalent of Vin Diesel leaping out of a speeding hot rod to snatch Michelle Rodriguez in midair from an endo-flipping tank. Louis Leterrier recalls going pale when asked to take over for Justin Lin, afraid of becoming the “guy who destroyed the Fast and Furious franchise.” ![]()
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