Quick X got here out at first of the summer time, and it was…sort of a large number within the worst manner. However a real brilliant spot inside that mess is Jason Momoa as Dante Reyes, the son of Quick 5’s Hernan Reyes who’s come on the lookout for revenge towards Staff Toretto. He’s foolish, he’s threatening, he’s sort of a homosexual techno Joker, and Momoa is clearly having a blast enjoying what’s in all probability the perfect villain in a sequence crammed largely with duds.
Over the course of the final film, Dante successfully shattered the Toretto clan in a number of completely different instructions, and plenty of of their potential allies (like Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw or Charlize Theron’s Cipher) are scattered or twisted up in their very own troubles. With Dante returning as the principle villain for Quick XI, director Louis Leterrier guarantees that he’ll grow to be a fair better menace through the sequel. Speaking to Empire Journal, he teased that they might “do one thing else” with Dante and his gleeful carnage for the following film. “It’s by no means twice the identical with Jason,” he continued. “Dante will actually evolve. Let’s discover one thing we haven’t seen earlier than.”
Leterrier credited Momoa for why Dante works so effectively, saying the unique pitch for the character was only a man who was “fueled by vengeance.” Whereas it might’ve been simple for the actor to play the function as “darkish and indignant,” he counseled Momoa’s adaptability and willingness to experiment. “It was attention-grabbing to play with the duality and the push-pull inside the character, the place inside the identical sentence he’s laughing and feels the ache of dropping every little thing. Solely an actor like Jason may have accomplished that.” What occurs subsequent with the character in Quick XI—and within the eventual second spinoff film for Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs—will equally depend upon Momoa and what path he seems like taking the character.
What different actually evil, hateable issues can Dante do after kidnapping Dom’s son, and making an attempt to explode a number of of his buddies? We’ll discover out at any time when Quick XI releases within the close to future.
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