When any franchise runs long enough, it will hit a big wall of stupid. Not a single franchise is immune to this. Today we refer to this as “jumping the shark,” a reference to the moment on ’70s sitcom Happy Days when the Fonz jumped over a shark on waterskis. In 2021, the Fast and the Furious franchise gave us the modern equivalent. For the ninth movie, F9: The Fast Saga , they actually sent Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris into space. In a car . It was a moment so dumb, it broke the franchise for many. And via Variety, we’ve learned that head of Universal Pictures Donna Langley regrets that creative decision. Here’s what she told reporters at the Toronto Film Festival:

I’m sorry that we sent them into space. We can never get that genie back.

On the franchise overall, Langley lat

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