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'The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'
"Fast and the Furious 3" Film Will Be Set in Japan
Acclaimed young filmmaker Justin Lin - who made a splash with the 2002 independent feature and Sundance hit "Better Luck Tomorrow" - has been signed to direct the latest installment in the motion picture series built on speed: "The Fast and the Furious 3" (tentative title).
The Universal Pictures release will be produced by Neal H. Moritz, who served in the same capacity on both global blockbuster hits "The Fast and the Furious" and "2 Fast 2 Furious." "The Fast and the Furious 3" is written by Chris Morgan ("Cellular"), who places the third entry in Tokyo: set in the sexy, underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses ever seen.
Lucas Black Lead Fast and Furious 3
Bow Wow spilled the beans on this nugget of information already a few days ago, but now it's official. Lucas Black and Bow Wow will star in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift for Universal Pictures.
The movie is set in the underground world of Japanese drift racing, where rear-wheel cars speed into turns and "drift" sideways for as long as possible. The story revolves around outsider (Black) who, to avoid jailtime, is sent out of the country to live with his military father in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo. When he loses a race to a driver with ties to the Yakuza, he has to pay off his debt by going deep into the Tokyo underworld.
Bow Wow will play Black's friend, Twinkie. Brian Tee will play Black's nemesis, D.K. (aka the Drift King) and Nikki Griffin has been cast as Tee's girlfriend.
Justin Lin will direct the movie.
Fast and Furious DVD titles have sold more than 20 million units
The original film and its follow-up reached box office heights in theaters around the globe, with "The Fast and the Furious" earning $207,409,603 in cumulative worldwide box office and "2 Fast 2 Furious" outscoring the original, taking in $236,222,077 worldwide. Together, both DVD titles have sold more than 20 million units.
"The Fast and the Furious 3" follows the story of Shaun Boswell, who has always been an outsider. A loner at school, his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing -- which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Shaun is sent out of the country to live with his uncle in the military, in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo.
In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road, the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal, gravity-defying automotive challenge ... drift racing, a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart stopping courses of hairpin turns and switchbacks.
For his first unsuccessful foray in drift racing, Shaun unknowingly takes on D.K., the "Drift King," with ties to the Yakuza, the Japanese crime machine. The only way he can pay off the debt of his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld, where the stakes are life and death.
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