FAST X Director Addresses Vin Diesel's Final Trilogy Comments Saying "One Movie at a Time"

Before Fast X was released, Vin Diesel teased that the film might be the first part of a trilogy. He said at the time: "I can say this: going into making this movie, the studio had asked if this could be a two-parter, and after the studio saw this and when they saw part one, they said, 'Could we make Fast X the finale, a trilogy?'"

Fast X was originally the first of a two-part film. Then at the end of the movie, Dwayne Johnson returned as Luke Hobbes. When it was reported that Johnson would be getting his own spinoff movie to bridge the gap between Faxt X and Fast XI, I just assumed that those three films total was the trilogy that Johnson was teasing.

Now, director Louis Leterrier attempts to offer some clarity on what exactly Diesel meant by his comments, telling GamesRader:

"The one thing about Vin is like when he’s on a press line, he will say anything to get out of that press line, and I’m kind of like him and go, 'Yeah, sure, we will go to the moon in the next one. Bye.' And then you never forget!

"Obviously the next one is coming, and then yeah, one movie at a time. I think the one thing that Hollywood keeps reminding us is that it's one step at a time, put one foot forward at a time. Let's count our blessings. We're very lucky this movie was well-received and well-loved, people went to see it in a movie theater and now they’re going to see it at home. It's one at a time. 

"I mean maybe what he was saying is that there’s 25 years of filmmaking and storytelling, three acts, two hours and two movies, between the last one and this one, might not be enough to tell the story that is needed, and that’s what we’re figuring out these days."

Yeah, it just seems to me like Leterrier doesn’t really know what Diesel was saying. So, I’m just going to stick with the assumption that Dwayne Johnson’s spinoff is the piece of the trilogy that Diesel was teasing.