The fact that there is now an enormous elephant in the room that they go out of their way to try to avoid, just proves that making films after the 7th film (the “last ride”) is fucking ridiculous. The solution to what to do with his character, is stopping with movie 7 like they kept saying they were going to do.
I haven’t seen movie 8 yet, & I don’t intend to. It’s so blatantly a cash grab, & I haven’t heard a single explanation for why this franchise needed more than 7 movies. I have no interest in seeing them go “no let’s not bother Brian, he’s with his family”, & I have even less interest in seeing them kill him off.
If people want to support a franchise that is no longer what it was, they can do that I guess, but I’m not going to. Fast & the Furious without Dom or Brian, isn’t Fast & the Furious, no matter how muscular & bald half the team is. As long as people keep giving money to this increasingly watered down series of movies, they’ll keep making them.
