Actor Vin Diesel has commented on and compared his Fast & Furious franchise to J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Speaking to Variety, Diesel said it has become difficult to expand the “mythology” of the Fast & Furious franchise, not unlike how Diesel believes that Tolkien must have had a difficult time expanding the Lord of the Rings universe.
“You know what gets harder? The work off-screen. The thinking, the expanding… there’s a reason why Tolkien stopped writing after a while,” Diesel said (via DigitalSpy). “Because it’s so hard to continue mythologies. Nobody thinks about it in that context, but it’s real.”
#FastX star Vin Diesel relates to why J.R.R. Tolkien stopped writing “The Lord of the Rings”: “It’s so hard to continue mythologies.” https://t.co/dDZbcvtGB9 pic.twitter.com/iOqNOZclPU
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The interviewer suggested that Fast & Furious is “The Lord of the Rings of action movies,” and Diesel agreed with this. “Well said, from your mouth to God’s ears, it’s so true.”