Vin Diesel Reckons Fast 8 Has A Shot At The Oscars

It’s pretty much guaranteed that a new Fast and Furious film will make an enormous amount of money at the box office. After all, the last one - Furious 7 - took a staggering $1.5 billion off the back of its £190 million budget. But there’s one thing we definitely don’t expect from an F&F movie: an Oscar. Unless of course you’re Vin Diesel.

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Diesel predicted that Fast 8 would nab director F. Gary Gray the Academy Award he missed out on for biopic Straight Outta Compton. “I think he went into making this movie with a little bit of a chip on his shoulder, going ‘Oh, really? Ok. Now I’m going to take the biggest saga in the world, and I’m about to throw Oscars at you’…Wait till you see what he does!” He said.

We should expect a different tone for this film, too. “Fast 8 is different. It’s very dark…My character is conflicted in a way that is really going to shock you. He’s coming off of a lot of emotion from [Furious] 7 and the loss that 7 represents,” Diesel explained.

All this sound familiar? That’s because before Furious 7 was released, Vin Diesel insisted it would “probably win best picture at the Oscars.” And we all know how that turned out.

Still, you never know…