Fast X director Louis Leterrier first received the call to direct the movie at 11pm on April 28, 2022. Forty-eight hours prior, veteran Fast & Furious franchise filmmaker Justin Lin had abruptly resigned as the director of Fast X, days into production on the full-throttle family saga’s 10th mainline installment. A replacement director was needed and, naturally, they were needed fast.
After staying up all night to read, and reread, the script for Fast X, he was asked a simple question: would you be interested? "I said no," Leterrier recalls to Total Film magazine in the new issue, which features the movie on the cover. "I couldn’t fathom doing this. It’s just impossible. It’s just massive. Doing any movie, any TV show, anything without prep is crazy, let alone doing the biggest movie in the biggest action franchise of all time."
