"My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film"
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Vin Diesel is trying to launder a very commercial instinct - franchise-building - into something that sounds almost artisanal: planning. The line is blunt on purpose. It takes the messy truth of modern blockbuster economics (sequels are inevitable if the opening weekend hits) and reframes it as creative integrity. Premeditated, trilogy, faith: those are writerly, even literary words, meant to dignify an industry habit that often reads as panic-driven IP mining.
The subtext is a quiet shot at the sequel-as-cash-grab model. Diesel is drawing a moral line between expansions that feel earned and expansions that feel like executives scrambling after success. He is also, not accidentally, describing the Fast and Furious playbook: a series that survived by turning escalation into structure, swapping one-off thrills for a long-running soap opera of loyalty, betrayal, and found family. When he says "if you have any faith in your film", he is really talking about confidence in a world, not just a plot. A story ends; a world can keep generating scenarios.
There is also a defensive edge. Actors tied to franchises are often treated as mercenaries for hire. Diesel is pitching himself as a steward of continuity, someone thinking beyond the next paycheck to the arc. It is a savvy piece of self-mythmaking: the star as long-term architect, not just the face on the poster.
The subtext is a quiet shot at the sequel-as-cash-grab model. Diesel is drawing a moral line between expansions that feel earned and expansions that feel like executives scrambling after success. He is also, not accidentally, describing the Fast and Furious playbook: a series that survived by turning escalation into structure, swapping one-off thrills for a long-running soap opera of loyalty, betrayal, and found family. When he says "if you have any faith in your film", he is really talking about confidence in a world, not just a plot. A story ends; a world can keep generating scenarios.
There is also a defensive edge. Actors tied to franchises are often treated as mercenaries for hire. Diesel is pitching himself as a steward of continuity, someone thinking beyond the next paycheck to the arc. It is a savvy piece of self-mythmaking: the star as long-term architect, not just the face on the poster.
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