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For a franchise that began in 2001, with Vin Diesel’s Dom Toretto and Paul Walker as Brian O’Conner as a pair of street racers, the Fast movies have raced around the world going from earthbound heists to saving the planet from genetically-enhanced terrorists.

With Hobbs & Shaw in theatres this weekend, Morgan spoke with the Sun about extending the Fast universe and what the future holds for the films.

Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs was introduced in Fast Five and he quickly became a favourite with fans. Did you always know you’d want to explore that character further with his own movie?

We wanted Dom, Brian and Mia to be running from a guy who would never stop, so when we created that character we were specifically thinking about Dwayne. We always knew if we were going to take a step outside the main Fast films, it would probably be with Hobbs. But there’s a scene in Fate of the Furious where Hobbs and Shaw are in prison hurling insults at each other. That day, we knew we had to do a movie with those two guys. We took these two specifically because their energy was great.

The villains in the Fast movies keep getting better and better. Charlize Theron’s Cipher in Fate of the Furious was great. Now, we have Idris Elba’s genetically-enhanced supervillain Brixton. He’s like nothing we’ve seen in a Fast film. How did you dream him up?

Hobbs and Shaw each have their own ways of doing things. So we needed a villain that was so effective and so bad and so capable that he would literally beat them down into submission to the point where the only way to solve the problem would be for them to swallow their pride and work together.