Christopher Nolan is one of the most talented filmmakers in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Even legendary directors like Martin Scorsese have no issue admitting this fact. Needless to say, Nolan has never disappointed fans with his movies. With each new movie, more and more people have become admirers of the director’s masterful filmmaking.
That being said, even the best in the industry are fans of someone else’s work. In Christopher Nolan’s case, this favorite is rather surprising as he has admitted that he likes The Fast and the Furious franchise. Yes, you read that right; it is the very same franchise that a majority of the audience has developed an aversion to. Not the Tenet director though.
Christopher Nolan Has No Regret Regarding His Love for The Fast and the Furious Franchise
The Fast and the Furious is one of the biggest franchises in the history of Hollywood cinema. The franchise was started in 2001, and now includes a series of action films, short films, a television series, toys, video games, and whatnot. It has been incredibly successful as an action film franchise with a worldwide gross of $7.3 billion (via The Numbers).
However, as of recent, this action film series seems to be losing its charm as audiences are starting to find the plotline redundant and hence, boring. This has caused a significant decline in the performance of the movies.
On the other hand, Christopher Nolan is unbothered as ever as he admitted his undying love for the Fast & Furious franchise. While being interviewed by Stephen Colbert for a podcast for InSession Film, he said:
“I have no guilt about being a fan of the Fast & Furious franchise; it is a tremendous action franchise. I watch those movies all the time, I love them… you don’t need to watch them all in one sitting, it’s only the last few where a very specific arc of mythologies develop, I would start with ‘Tokyo Drift’.”
Nolan being wholly unashamed for his love of F&F is exactly how I wanted to start my morning. Lol pic.twitter.com/LmWIRpkNZi
— InSession Film (@InSessionFilm) February 8, 2024
Whether or not fans approve of Nolan’s choice, he loves that franchise and refuses to back down. The heart wants what it wants, after all.
Christopher Nolan Once Revealed a Fun Fact About the Fast & Furious Movies
So far, Christopher Nolan has not made a sequel to any of his own films so it is quite interesting that he loves a franchise as huge as Fast & Furious. In an interview on Josh Horowitz’s Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, the Oppenheimer director revealed a fun fact about the action franchise, saying:
“The fun thing about those movies is even as they’ve gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, as sequels have to do, everyone always complains that sequels get bigger but we’re the people making sequels get bigger, we do want them bigger, you don’t want them smaller, it’s the Alien 3 lesson that Fincher learned.”
Nolan went on to say that he personally loves Alien 3 perhaps even more than David Fincher who directed the movie. Even so, he mentioned that making sequels shorter doesn’t impress fans.
