Why the Tokyo Drift Script Still Hits Different Today
I was just re-reading parts of the tokyo drift script the other day and realized how much of an outlier it is in the Fast and Furious franchise. It's funny because, back in 2006, people didn't really know what to make of it. Most of the original cast was gone, the setting moved across the world to Japan, and the whole "point A to point B" racing style was replaced by sliding sideways through cramped parking garages. But looking back at the writing now, there's a specific kind of magic in that screenplay that the later, massive-budget sequels kind of lost. ...