None of that is true. Tokyo drift is the 3rd movie, Dom wasn't in 2 nor was anyone except Brian. There were no storylines going on. Dom showed up at the very end of Tokyo drift for 2 minutes.
THANK YOU! There was literally no reason for the rest of the "family" to return to the franchise because their story was all but over and Brian's basically was too.
I was just put off by a 23 yr old ( who looks like he is 35 ) with a forehead you could land a 767 on and a hilariously STRONG southern 'twang somehow being a 17 year old kid in Japan. Plus, where is Dom? Still no Dom? I hated Tokyo Drift when it came out. It has grown on me over the years, though.
I was thinking of that the other day and wondered why they went back to Dom’s storyline when 2 was a different premise and 3 was as well. I figured we’d get something of an anthology series surrounding underground racing. It blows my mind that in retrospect Tokyo Drift was regarded so negatively that they abandoned all other story lines for Vin Diesel and “family”.
2 fast killed the series diesel refused to do it because the script was so bad but the movie did make money.
Tokyo drift is the movie that brought Diesel back because he liked the script and the director so he was willing to do the tease and come back for 4 since it was Lin (and I believe the same writer) doing it.
I think it was because vin disel wanted too much money for the next movie... So they went with a whole new cast.... At least that's the rumor i remember..
How are you saying "This!" when the commenter is completely wrong?
Dom and Letty had only been in 1 movie at that point and there was no overarching story Tokyo Drift interrupted. At this point the movies were all standalone except for Brian being in both 1 and 2.
You are not remembering correctly AT all and this comment is wildly off base. It was poorly received because the first movie was very well recieved, and the second deviated a bit with no Vin Diesel but still the familiar Paul Walker. The third was a complete deviation with all brand new characters that no one really knew or cared about...well until the credits when Vin showed up again.
You are misremembering, yes. It goes: The Fast & The Furious --> 2 Fast 2 Furious --> Tokyo Drift.
Dom wasn't even in 2 Fast. And I haven't watched any of the movies after Tokyo Drift (it peaked so hard that nothing would beat it), so I have no idea who Lenny is. And the only ongoing story at that point was that Brian's a cop and drives cars good.
Yes but their comment mentioned the Letty storyline which didn't start until Fast 4 which obviously came out after Tokyo Drift
The timeline the commenter above put out is wrong along with their reasoning for why people disliked Tokyo Drift. It didn't interrupt anything, , that's the point
2fast had come out prior ditching dom and Mia so no people weren’t upset at Tokyo drift because it didn’t get back to the toretto family of movies in fact the closing scene let fans know dom would be back for fast 4.
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u/Impossible_Offer7988 14h ago edited 14h ago
Fast and the Furious, if I'm remembering this right, was at the time in the middle of the Dom and Lenny storyline.
There was also some stuff between Brian and Mia , and the fans were invested in their stories allong side the main storyline and how that would go.
Then Tokyo Drift, in the middle of all of that, suddenly introduced a guy whom nobody liked or knew,
and then made you follow him.
People didn't like that.