Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan says fans will finally get justice for Han Lue.
Han first appeared in Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift, played by Sung Kang, but by the movie’s end he had been killed in a car accident.
As he was a popular character, Morgan decided to bring the racer back by making the subsequent movies take place before his death, thus allowing him to appear in the fourth, fifth and sixth films.
However, in Fast & Furious 6, it was revealed that Han’s death was actually caused by Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) who was out for revenge against those who had hurt his brother Owen Shaw (Luke Evans), in Fast Five.
Leitch called it a holy union between practical stunts and CGI (Credit: Universal)
In The Fate & the Furious, Statham’s villain returns as more of an antihero after he is enlisted to rescue Dom’s son from Cipher (Charlize Theron) and now, he’s leading his own movie as the hero alongside Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs.
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Han fans are rather annoyed that Shaw seems to have gotten away with their fave’s murder, by Morgan says that the Brit will finally have to face up to his murderous past.
“Sung Kang is a great friend and Han is a character that I adore,” the screenwriter told Entertainment Weekly. “Justice for Han is owed. It’s something we have discussed for a very long time and want to give the right due to.
“There’s a line in Hobbs & Shaw that is right before the battle in Samoa where Shaw says to his sister, ‘There’s things I’ve done that I have to make amends for.’” Morgan adds.
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“That line was specifically written and put in there just to let everyone know that he is talking about Han — it is on his mind. It tortures him, and he’s going to get to it.”
The new Fast & Furious spin-off sees the British assassin and American government agent team up to take on super-powered criminal Brixton and an evil tech organisation while trying to save Shaw’s sister Hattie’s life.
Statham told Yahoo Movies UK that he credits Drew Pearce for making the script great after being brought in for rewrites.
Fast & Furious: Presents Hobbs & Shaw is released in cinemas from 1 August.
