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Like father, like son? The industry is abuzz this week with reports that Vin\u00a0<\/span>Diesel\u2019s\u00a0 <\/span>10-year-old son Vincent Sinclair will be making his blockbuster film debut with this spring\u2019s release\u00a0 <\/span>of \u201cFast & Furious\u00a0<\/span>9<\/strong>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Sinclair will be portraying a younger incarnation of Dominic Toretto, the character his father portrayed in earlier episodes of the \u201cFast & Furious<\/strong>\u201d series, where the boy\u2019s role was played by Alex McGee.<\/p>\n Despite its title, \u201cFast & Furious 9<\/strong>\u201d has been somewhat slow in getting to screens. It was originally scheduled by Universal\u00a0<\/span>for release in the summer of 2020, but was postponed several times due to the coronavirus pandemic\u2014April 2, May 28,\u00a0<\/span>and now June\u00a0 <\/span>25.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The film is directed by Justin Lin, who had done those honors for several of the earlier episodes. Other actors making appearances include John Cena, Charles Theron, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris \u201cLudacris\u201d Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, and Helen Mirren.<\/p>\n The earlier installment in the series, \u201cFast and Furious 8\u201d made its debut in 2017. Over the past two decades, the eight \u201cFast & Furious\u201d flicks have raked in close to $6 billion in gross revenues worldwide. Speaking of the soon-to-be-released ninth installment. Vin Diesel was quoted in Entertainment Weekly as saying, \u201cWhen you really think about the quality of the movie, there’s more time you have to work in post-production, more time to get the shots right; it does give you a little bit of a cushion. I want to get the movie out for all of the great fans who have been waiting for this chapter\u2014and yet look at the world that we live in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo by Nobuhiro Hosoki Like father, like son? The industry is abuzz this week with reports that Vin\u00a0Diesel\u2019s\u00a0 10-year-old son Vincent Sinclair will be making his blockbuster film debut with this spring\u2019s release\u00a0 of \u201cFast & Furious\u00a09.\u201d\u00a0 Sinclair will be portraying a younger incarnation of Dominic Toretto, the character his father portrayed in earlier…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[258,261,264,260,262,259,263,257],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n