F9 Director Justin Lin on Bringing Back Fan Favorite Characters and Plotting the Endgame

Editor s note: The following contains spoilers for F9. With F9 arriving in theaters June 25th, I was able to get some time with director Justin Lin to talk about the next entry in the Fast and Furious franchise. Before going any further, if you havent seen the incredible new trailer for F9, you need to stop what youre doing and watch that right now. Every time I think the franchise cant go any further, you get footage like this trailer. During my interview with Lin, he talked about why the pandemic delay helped make the movie even better, how the sequel brings back a lot of characters, why this could have been a sixhour movie, if they designed F9 as a twoparter, and I tried to get him to admit the film ends on a cliffhanger. In addition, since its come out that F9 goes to space (you can actually see the beginning of the space scene at the end of the trailer when Chris Ludacris Bridges and Tyrese Gibson are screaming punch it and wearing airtight clothing), he talked about how the