Pro wrestlers are great and all, but they can only get so big. Where do you go once you’ve fought both Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and John Cena? Dinosaurs, of course.
Justin Lin, director of F9, as well as a handful of other Fast & Furious movies, refused to outright deny the possibility that the Fast universe would intersect with the Jurassic Park universe.
“Well, I’ve never said never to anything,” Lin said of the crossover, per Comicbook. “And the fact that part of our philosophy is not to ever be boxed in or labeled. And that’s all I will say.”
Both owned by Universal Studios, any intellectual property issues would presumably be easy to manage. Indeed, series veteran Michelle Rodriguez, who plays Letty and has fought alongside giant beings before in Avatar, was also on board with the idea.
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“Once you reach a certain pinnacle, there’s nowhere to go but to cross brand and merge, it’s what big corporations do with each other when they get too big, you know what I mean?” she said. “You just have to brand and merge with each other. But the only thing standing in the way is lawyers and studios. Because, usually the brands that you’re trying to merge belong to different studios or whatever. But it’s under the same umbrella. I don’t know. I’m just saying. It works.”
Naturally, this falls well short of confirmation that a Ford Raptor might drive alongside a velociraptor, or that a TRX might face off with a T-Rex, but it’s fun to think about. The series has already given up on verisimilitude, so is it really jumping the shark when you’re jumping a megalodon surrounded by fiery explosions in a Stingray with machine guns?
If you’re not quite ready for dinosaurs yet, but you are interested in seeing how John Cena will fare as Dom Toretto’s evil brother, the latest F9 trailer can be seen below and is in theaters on June 25.