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HOW FAST X COMPOSER HINTED AT HOBBS’ SURPRISE RETURN, TIED BACK TO TIED BACK TO FAST FIVE


“It was really cool to go back and actually do that music over again, but from the perspective of our heroes being the antagonists.”
Like most scholars of the Fast Saga, composer Brian Tyler agrees that the franchise officially shifted gears — both “filmically and [musically]” — with Fast Five (now streaming on Peacock!), which set the blockbuster series down the globe-trotting road of action, espionage, and geopolitical intrigue it has been driving along ever since.

“The music and the film at that point was heads and shoulders above the other ones that I had done,” Tyler, who has composed the music for nearly every Fast & Furious movie since Tokyo Drift, tells SYFY WIRE.
Fast X composer Brian Tyler on taking musical cues from Fast FiveFast forward more than a decade later, and the composer was presented with the unique opportunity to revisit his Fast Five soundtrack on Fast X, whose opening prologue retcons the now-iconic vault heist across the streets of Rio. “You’re going back in time, kind of like a Kirusawa/Rashoman thing,” Tyler adds. “You’re seeing the crime from the perspective of the villains in that movie.”

The central antagonist of Fast Five was Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida), a powerful South American crime boss, from whom Dom (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (the late Paul Walker), and the rest of the Toretto team stole $100 million.
Fast X reveals that Reyes had a son named Dante (played by franchise newcomer Jason Momoa), who was just out of sight the entire time and has spent the last 10 years preparing an elaborate revenge plan. He’s one nasty piece of work and doesn’t exactly deserve sympathy from the viewer, but there was a time — at least from Dante’s POV — when he and his family were profoundly wronged.

“Now, when you watch it, you have an empathy for Dante because the Fast and Furious main characters are kind of the antagonists in that situation,” Tyler says of tweaking his existing cues to reflect such a reversal. “It was really cool to go back and actually do that music over again.”
It was also a chance to subtly hint at the surprise return of Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) in the film’s mid-credits stringer, which lays the groundwork for a confrontation between the fan favorite character and Dante Reyes.

“At the very beginning of the movie … it’s over black and the Universal logo comes up and everything. It’s actually Hobbs’ theme for a second there,” Tyler reveals. “So it’s hinting at what’s about to come. Hobbs was a main part of that sequence in Rio, because he’s the one that kills Dante’s father … And then the last thing you hear at the end of the movie on the tag is the very theme that starts Fast X, which is from Fast Five.”
Fast X is currently playing in theaters or available to rent/purchase on digital platforms like Vudu and Apple TV. Be sure to check back with us for regular updates on the movie’s Peacock debut and physical media bonus features.
Fast 11 (aka Fast X: Part II) is scheduled to premiere in April 2025, which means we can probably expect the Hobbs spinoff to debut sometime within the next year-and-a-half. A writer and director have yet to be announced.

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‘I am officially off the market’: When Margot Robbie revealed she made the ‘conscious’ decision of not dating actors


Margot Robbie revealed her decision to not date actors because of the media scrutiny that came with a public relationship of two high-profile actors
Back in 2015, A-lister Margot Robbie made a declaration that she would not be dating any actors. The actress may have alluded to her fiance Tom Ackerley, who she married the following year in 2016. In an exclusive interview with Marie Claire, she revealed that being in a relationship as an actor herself came with its own set of challenges. She believed that dating someone who was popular would add on to the media scrutiny.

Margot Robbie opened up on why she made a conscious decision to not date actorsTalking to Marie Claire, she claimed, “I am officially off the market.” She then shared the reasoning behind her decision and added, “I made a conscious decision not to date actors.” She continued to explain, “But not because I hate actors. That’s a nasty generalization to make, and that’s not the case. People take such an interest in your love life when you have a profile, it puts a lot of stress on a relationship.”
The Barbie actress continued, “So two people with profiles, I figure it’s just double the amount of scrutiny, and I’d like to avoid that at all costs.” This came after reports of her locking lips with Tarzan co-star Alexander Skarsgard started making rounds. It was reported that she was caught kissing the actor during the Sundance Film Festival.

Margot Robbie revealed she opted for a minimal lifestyle even after becoming an actorIn the interview, Robbie also opened up about how she was adapting to fame. She shared, “I have a normal 24-year-old life. If I were a waitress, I’d probably have the exact same lifestyle. I’d go to the same clubs I go to already, live in the same house with the same housemates, hang out with the same people.”
However, Margot Robbie tied the knot with Tom Ackerley who is an English producer and actor. The duo met on the sets of 2013 movie Suite Francaise where Tom was working as an assistant director. Post marriage, both of them launched their production company LuckyChap Entertainment.

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Monica Bellucci and Tin Burton at lunch in the restaurant in Selci Lama


For All Saints’ Day, the Hollywood star from Tiferno returned to his native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and then visit his parentsOn the occasion of the All Saints’ Day celebrations, the Hollywood star of Tiferno origin, Monica Bellucci, returned to her native Umbria to enjoy a moment of relaxation and to visit her father Pasquale and her mother Brunella.Flanked by her current partner Tim Burton, she went to lunch, together with about twenty old friends, at the Osteria del Musicista, which has always been her favorite restaurant, in Selci Lama.Menu dedicated to typical dishes of the area, which includes an appetizer with breadsticks lined with coppa, duck in porchetta and grilled pork livers, polenta with wild boar sauce accompanied by the very typical cappelletti in broth.To conclude, a dessert based on fried “ciaccia” with Nutella and roasted chestnuts.
Having paid the bill and greeted the restaurant owner and lifelong friend, Roberto Polchi, Monica brought home cappelletti and broth for a family dinner.

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‘Rocky’ Was Quite Different In His Original Screenplay, Sylvester Stallone Claims


Sylvester Stallone took his friend’s advice on a rewrite of the original screenplay to Rocky. A few tweaks later, he was on his way to major success.
In the new Netflix documentary Sly, Stallone discussed how he initially conceived of the project, which had a much harder edge. In the early version, Rocky was depicted as a “thuggish” character, inspired by Martin Scorsese’s crime drama, Mean Streets.

But Stallone’s perspective changed when a friend read the script and thought the boxer was too cruel for audiences to actually care about him.
Stallone recalled her crying.

“She goes, ‘I hate Rocky. I hate him. He’s cruel. He hits people. He beats them up.’”
Stallone took it to heart, and asked what he could do to soften the character.

“I said, ‘what if you stop short of it?’ Like, maybe he almost did. He could have, that’s his job, but he doesn’t?’ ‘That’d be nice,’” he added. “I said, ‘What if he had a girlfriend or something?’ ‘Yeah, that’s nice.’ So I go back, start writing that: ‘Girlfriend. Nice.’”
$117 million in box office later, a franchise was born.

Stallone also revealed that actor Dolph Lundgren sent him to the hospital during one fight scene in Rocky IV.
“Dolph Lundgren… he pulverized me,” Stallone says in the documentary. “Later that night, my heart started to swell—which happens when the heart hits the chest—and then my blood pressure went up to 260, and they thought I was going to be talking to angels. Next thing I know, I’m in intensive care, where I’m surrounded by nuns, and I thought, ‘OK, that’s curtains.’”
Stallone was in the hospital for nine days following the incident, praying for “one more round.”
“For the first minute of the fight, it is going to be a free-for-all,” Stallone told Lundgren. The Swedish actor joked in a separate interview that all he did was “obey orders,” explaining, “[Stallone] was the boss. I did what he told me.”
Doctors allegedly told Stallone that he received a blow to the ribs that made his heart rattle around in his ribcage, a condition typically seen in head-on collisions. “I did hit a bus, of sorts,” Stallone joked.

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