I don’t think Dwayne Johnson is really coming back in Fast & Furious and it’s Henry Cavill’s fault

The most boring thing about the Fast & Furious series is the cars. There’s so much drama going on behind the scenes that Vin Diesel’s action saga has become a hybrid of Succession and Jersey Shore. The latest revelation? Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs returns to the franchise fold. Part 10’s post-credits scene suggests a major role in Fast & Furious 11. Dandelion, I say. Just like Henry Cavill as Superman there will be no great return.

Dwayne Johnson desperately needed the Fast & Furious 10 post-credits scene

For anyone who doesn’t understand the significance of Fast & Furious 10’s post-credits scene, here’s the key observation: The Rock is coming crawled back to Diesel, whimpering. Like a trained dog that politely delivers its trained slogan and puts its face in the camera for petting.

And this after one of the most exciting, funniest, most childish Hollywood feuds in a long time. The development of the Johnson-Diesel dispute goes back to Fast & Furious 8. Diesel compared himself to the Italian master director Federico Fellini (Eight and a Half), Johnson called him an idiot. In the end it all sounded very final. So why is The Rock returning now? What happened?

In two words: Black Adam. The extremely expensive superhero blockbuster, planned over 10 years, should make Johnson the innovator and main hero of a new DC era at the same time. It was a move that would have secured his pension. On a par with Superman in a multi-billion dollar franchise that makes Fast & Furious look like Hot Wheels.

But the film was bad, everyone knew it, and in the end even Johnson couldn’t sugarcoat the fiasco anymore. For the first time in years he suffered a really ugly flop (via The Numbers ), and then a prestige project at that. Humility was the order of the day, money and dignity were at stake, and Suddenly nemesis Vin Diesel didn’t look so nemesis anymore.

Dwayne Johnson’s Fast & Furious scene is as irrelevant as Henry Cavill’s DC return

Ergo post-credit scene in Fast 10. But I still don’t believe in a second Johnson phase of the franchise. This also has to do with Black Adam. There Henry Cavill returned after years as Superman, only to be sawed off by DC shortly afterwards. It will be similar with Dwayne Johnson.

Not that Vin Diesel just viciously kicks Johnson out of the franchise again after the post-credit shoot. He’s far too intent on building a Fast & Furious family for that, even if the individual members not reciprocate his abusive affection.

Dwayne Johnson will never submit to Vin Diesel again

No, the reason is rather that Johnson and Diesel cannot coexist. Both have long been accustomed to setting the tone in their films in front of and behind the camera. Both produce their films almost always and are considered autocrats on the set. Dwayne Johnson even changed the ending of his monster action Rampage on his own.

Vin Diesel is no better. Even well-versed franchise veteran Justin Lin couldn’t take it anymore. He resigned from the Fast & Furious 10 directorship. And Dwayne Johnson is no Justin Lin.

The billionaire Hollywood star, who once described himself as “Franchise Viagra” by Fast & Furious (via YouTube) and was the highest-paid actor alive in 2020 (via Forbes), will be not subordinate to an ego competitor for months again, which he obviously can’t stand.

That’s the real reason for Dwayne Johnson’s almost-return

The post-credits scene simply serves to keep him talking. According to IMDb, Dwayne Johnson currently has seven films in the pipeline, all of them blockbusters. They will bombard viewers with The Rock content via stream and cinema screen until the stale taste of Black Adam is erased from their memories. When then in about two years the first Fast & Furious 11 trailer makes the Fast 10 Post Credits sham obvious, no one will care anymore.

Dwayne Johnson did not celebrate his brief Fast 10 appearance on social media, as he so often did before. It just goes to show how embarrassed he is about the whole thing. But there was surprisingly little excitement about the big unveiling. Could it be that some fans were happy when Black Adam burst The Rock’s ever-growing bubble of megalomania? Such fatigue only cures restraint. A quality that the star, despite all humility, does not have.

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