Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs is in Trouble in New FAST 8 Photo
Daddy's gotta go to...jail?
Here's a new photo from the set of Fast 8, F. Gary Gray's follow-up to James Wan's smash hit Furious 7. We've seen a few pics and videos from the movie so far, but to me, this one is the most interesting. Dwayne Johnson shared this pic of his character, Diplomatic Security Service Agent Luke Hobbs, standing in chains and dressed in an orange inmate jumpsuit. A couple of options instantly came to mind when I saw this:
First: this might be a flashback image revealing that Hobbs has a checkered past, information that could be further explored in the long-discussed spin-off for the character.
Or, the more likely option: Hobbs has been framed, probably by someone in the Shaw family, and Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw — who Hobbs personally put in a maximum security cell at the end of the last movie — will emerge victorious, taunting Hobbs from the other side of the fence. (It would be awesome if Shaw got his mom, hopefully played by Helen Mirren, to use connections to make this happen.)
All of that is speculation, of course, but it's obviously intriguing to wonder how a highly-regarded agent ends up behind bars. We previously saw a pic of him standing next to a barbed wire fence, but it wasn't clear that he was in prison at that point. He's teased some big things for his character coming up, and we'll find out more when Fast 8 hits theaters on April 14, 2017.