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Alan Ritchson is a workhorse. The star of Reacher will be returning for season 4 this month. He will also have the action-drama Motor City coming out, as well as the action-comedy Runner, hitting theaters this year. If that’s not enough, he will also star with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Christmas action-comedy, The Man with the Bag. And if that’s not enough, he is set to return for the next Fast & Furious entry. But that’s not enough for the big man, as he will also be collaborating with Chris Morgan — who has written for many entries in the Fast & Furious franchise.
Deadline reports that Ritchson and Morgan are developing a MotoGP heist film. In addition to starring, Ritchson produces under his new first-look deal with Netflix. According to the publication, “The film revolves around a crew of motorcycle thieves who begin stealing priceless antiquities around the world. Interpol recruits a one-time MotoGP prodigy (Ritchson) to catch them — until he realizes the ringleader may be his younger brother long believed dead.” It has been pitched to the streamer as “Fast & Furious on motorcycles,” and MotoGP is giving the project full support.
Chris Morgan also produces with Ainsley Morgan for Chris Morgan Productions and Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum for RK Films.
Alan Ritchson talks Fast Forever
Meanwhile, Fast X nears the franchise to the finish line and it ended on a cliffhanger, so when can we expect it? “I know a lot, we have conversations all the time, I’m a big part of those conversations,” Ritchon said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “There’s just a lot of obstacles. It’s expensive to make— it’s too expensive; it doesn’t make a ton of sense. There’s a more efficient way to shoot those shows. And so there has to be a way to show restraint, while also honoring the fact that this world has expanded to something humongous. We are at the crossroads of something very hard to figure out, and everybody’s figuring it out.“
Despite the struggles, Ritchson is confident that Fast Forever will happen, one way or another. “There’s going to be another one, and I think it’s going to be great,” he said. “It’s just a matter of solving some big problems.“
Fast X had a massive budget, and the film’s relatively modest box office performance forced Universal Studios to reevaluate how much gas is left in the tank. Rumours suggest the studio wants to rein in the budget to around $200 million, potentially stripping away the logic-defying stunts of recent entries in favour of a “back-to-basics” throwback to the original 2001 film.
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