Fast & Furious 10's Budget Shows The Saga Is Ending At The Right Time
The Fast & Furious movies are set to conclude with a two-part finale, and the budget of the upcoming sequel Fast X shows it to be the right endpoint. Following the departure of director Justin Lin, Fast X is continuing with incoming filmmaker Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk). It won't be a cheap endeavor by any stretch of the imagination, though, with the budget of Fast X reported to be $300 million.
The high price tag partly accounts for the large ensemble cast of Fast X, but looking back over the series from Fast Five onward, the budgets have been on a steep upward incline. Fast Five cost $125 million, an expensive movie to be sure, but the budgets have only increased. From The Fate of the Furious on, no Fast Saga movie has cost less than $200 million. Paired with the franchise's gimmick leaving it with nowhere to go but up, this illuminates how much of a perpetual motion machine the Fast & Furious movies have morphed into.
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Beginning with The Fast and the Furious, which cost only $38 million, the path of the franchise since its most important installment, Fast Five, has constantly been pushing the Fast Saga to greater extremes. The last installment, 2021's F9, displayed this better than ever with the stunts and action sequences being comically disconnected from reality. With its upward trend being a staple of its brand, this opens up the question of how much more insane the Fast Saga can get, and how much more expensive such insanity is going to become.
Of course, the Fast Saga has risen to heights of financial success that make it the biggest tentpole action movie franchise around. Furious 7 and The Fate of the Furious both surpassed $1
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