The Fast and the Furious 5 Cometh…High-Five

Highway hooners, drift addicts, and fans of Vin Diesel’s method acting—rejoice! The fifquel to the high-octane blockbuster film franchise The Fast and the Furious has been given the green light to go into production. Both Variety magazine and Vin Diesel’s myFace page confirm that Universal is giving the movie the go ahead, dropping the proverbial doo-rag like a mini-skirted Filipina at a street drag race.

As for the name of this fifth installment, they’re introducing some brevity to the somewhat unwieldy title. Instead of The Fast and the Furious 5, they’re sliming it down to simply Fast 5. I’m just speculating here, but I wonder if they had to chop the name so as not to run afoul of Grandmaster Flash’s Furious 5—I hear they’re just as litigious as they are furious.