What If Fast & Furious Tokyo Drift Was A Dom Toretto Movie
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift followed the story of a new character with no connections with Brian O'Conner or Dominic Toretto, but the film was originally intended to star Vin Diesel. While 2 Fast 2 Furious tried to be as close as the first Fast and Furious movie as possible, with Tyrese's Roman Pearce replacing Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto as the co-lead along with Paul Walker's Brian, Tokyo Drift took the franchise into a completely different direction – but the box office results ended being worse than its predecessor.
Throughout most of the film, the only connection between The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and the rest of the franchise was in the title. Tokyo Drift followed the story of Sean Boswell, a high school student sent to live in Tokyo with his father after getting into a car accident during a race. However, Sean's arrival in Tokyo would only mean more trouble to the character, as he quickly created rivals and wanted to make his name in the car drift world.
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Sung Kang's Han ended up being Tokyo Drift's biggest legacy to the Fast and Furious franchise, but the movie could have been a true sequel to The Fast and the Furious (2001) as it was originally intended to be a Dominic Toretto story. Had Vin Diesel starred in Tokyo Drift, the sort of coming-of-age story of Sean would have been replaced by a more action-oriented film. The crucial rearrangement of the Fast and Furious timeline to accommodate Tokyo Drift might not have ever happened, as Dominic Toretto's extended role in it would set the third film as a more immediate sequel to the events of The Fast and the Furious.
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