Got this from another forum, apparently its all over sites like Club4ag + DoriKaze, so theres got to be some truth to it…
IMO when this hits the movies, watch our 240 prices skyrocket even more!
“Apparently, this movie has been green lit and they have been doing car and actor casting calls in California. Saw this on a movie spoiler site, sounds like Fast and Furious meets Romeo and Juliet, meets Initial D:”
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Justin Lin to Direct Fast and the Furious 3
Source: Universal Pictures June 8, 2005
Acclaimed young filmmaker Justin Lin – who made a splash with the 2002 independent feature and Sundance hit Better Luck Tomorrow – has been signed to direct the latest installment in the motion picture series built on speed: The Fast and the Furious 3 (tentative title). The Universal Pictures release will be produced by Neal H. Moritz, who served in the same capacity on both global blockbuster hits The Fast and the Furious and 2 Fast 2 Furious. The Fast and the Furious 3 is written by Chris Morgan (Cellular), who places the third entry in Tokyo: in this adrenalized new story, set in the sexy, underground world of Japanese drift racing, the newest and fastest customized rides go head-to-head on some of the most perilous courses ever seen. Plans call for the film to begin production in the Fall of 2005.
The Fast and the Furious 3 follows the story of Shaun Boswell, who has always been an outsider. A loner at school, his only connection to the indifferent world around him is through illegal street racing – which has made him particularly unpopular with the local authorities. To avoid jail time, Shaun is sent out of the country to live with his uncle in the military, in a cramped apartment in a low-rent section of Tokyo.
In the land that gave birth to the majority of modified racers on the road, the simple street race has been replaced by the ultimate pedal-to-the-metal, gravity-defying automotive challenge … drift racing, a deadly combination of brutal speed on heart stopping courses of hairpin turns and switchbacks.
For his first unsuccessful foray in drift racing, Shaun unknowingly takes on D.K., the “Drift King,” with ties to the Yakuza, the Japanese crime machine. The only way he can pay off the debt of his loss is to venture into the deadly realm of the Tokyo underworld, where the stakes are life and death.
