Fast and Furious 9 drops a new trailer ahead of June 25 release

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  • F9 was meant to hit theaters in May 2020, but then we had this whole pandemic thing.
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  • Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) and Dominic Torreto (Vin Diesel) shoot at stuff.
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  • Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) and Mia (Jordana Brewster) talk about stuff.
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  • Dom listens to renegade younger brother Jakob (John Cena) shout about stuff.
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  • Dom wouldn’t be Dom without some American muscle.
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  • Cars have a tendency to get airborne in F&F movies.
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  • Look, if you can’t suspend your disbelief, you probably shouldn’t bother watching this film.
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  • Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) and Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) wearing makeshift pressure suits.
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  • Jakob is working with Fate of the Furious‘ Cipher (Charlize Theron).
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  • Director of photography Stephen F. Windon and director Justin Lin, who is back at the helm having directed installments 3, 4, 5, and 6.
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This past weekend, with little to do thanks to the pandemic, I marathoned through the Fast and Furious franchise. That was fortuitous timing, because on Tuesday a new trailer dropped for F9, the next installment, which arrives in theaters on June 25.

We actually got our first look at F9 well over a year ago, when the first trailer dropped at the end of January 2020. Family has been a central theme to the F&F movies, and that continues here. Dominic Toretto (played by Vin Diesel) and the gang have to confront his younger brother Jakob (John Cena), described as “the most skilled assassin and high-performance driver they’ve encountered.” He’s working with criminal mastermind Cipher (Charlize Theron), who sports a much more flattering haircut than in Fate of the Furious, the movie where she improbably hacked a bunch of old cars to drive themselves.

Also returning to the series is Han Lue (Sung Kang), who we all thought died at the end of Tokyo Drift. (This was revealed to be the work of Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) who was bad in Furious 7 but then turned out to be good in Fate of the Furious and Hobbs and Shaw.)

Based on this second trailer, the plot for F9 appears to involve magnets, and at one point Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) and Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson) don makeshift pressure suits and take to the skies in what might be a DeLorean with rocket boosters strapped to the roof.

As my colleague Jennifer Ouellette explained last year, “F&F9 will probably make about as much sense as its predecessors—in other words, not much sense at all. And fans wouldn’t have it any other way.”

I know I wouldn’t.

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