{"id":22374,"date":"2013-08-02T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siccness.net\/?p=22374"},"modified":"2013-08-02T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T15:46:22","slug":"denzel-washington-turns-down-fast-and-furious-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/denzel-washington-turns-down-fast-and-furious-role","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Washington turns down Fast and Furious role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denzel Washington has turned down a role in the hit ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Denzel Washington<\/em> turned down a role in the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise.<\/p>\n

‘Fast & Furious 7’ director James Wan<\/em> – who replaces Justin Lin at the helm of the street-racing film series – had approached the ‘2 Guns’ actor about taking on a villainous role, but he apparently declined, according to Deadline.<\/p>\n

Had a deal been worked out, Washington’s character would have been introduced in next year’s ‘Fast & Furious’ movie in a minor role, before taking on a major role in the eighth instalment of the franchise.<\/p>\n

Producers used a similar tactic earlier this summer with ‘Fast & Furious 6’ when ‘Transporter’ actor Jason Statham was introduced at the end of the movie as a new villain, who will become the main antagonist in the 2014 follow-up.<\/p>\n

Vin Diesel<\/em>, Paul Walker<\/em>, Dwayne ‘The Rock<\/em>‘ Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster are all expected to reprise their roles for the seventh movie.<\/p>\n

Diesel – who also produces the series – recently revealed that the globe-trotting franchise will next shoot in Japan, after filming the sixth instalment in London and the fifth in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n

He said: ”We’re definitely going back home [to the US], as you know from seeing ‘Fast & Furious 6’.<\/p>\n

”We will have a stint in Tokyo and there is the Middle East next, that could be very interesting.”<\/p>\n

‘Fast & Furious 7’ is due for release in July 2014.<\/p>\n

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Denzel Washington has turned down a role in the hit ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise. Denzel Washington turned down a role in the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise. ‘Fast & Furious 7’ director James Wan – who replaces Justin Lin at the helm of the street-racing film series – had approached the ‘2 Guns’ actor about taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6930,6931],"class_list":["post-22374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-denzel-washington","tag-fast-and-furious"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}