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H OLLYWOOD

Vin DieseL:’F9’ premiere tO gO aheaD
Despite cOrOnaVirus scare
Hollywood action star Vin Diesel said the ongoing coronavirus
epidemic won’t have an impact on the release of his upcoming
action film ‘Fast & Furious 9’. The novel virus originated in
the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year. A total of
105,586 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 have been reported
worldwide as of Sunday, an increase of 3,656 infections from
the previous day, including 3,610 new cases outside China.

Many events around the world have been cancelled amid
the outbreak, including film festivals and music concerts.
Release of much-awaited James Bond film ‘No Time to
Die’ has also been pushed by seven months to November,
‘Mission: Impossible 7’ has pushed back its shoot and the
China release of Disney’s live-action ‘Mulan’ is delayed.

But Diesel, who reprises his role as Dom in the ninth
installment of the franchise, said people need cinema now
more than ever.

“I won’t fault anyone in the world for saying, ‘You guys
are stupid for releasing this movie right now.’ (But) we
need movies now more than ever. We’re already in a very
interesting time where cinema and the cinematic experience
is so threatened. So, yes, put it on record
we’re going to show up,” the actor told . tOm cruise DiDn’t Let me
pLaY WOLVerine: ‘m:i’ actOr
Diesel added he even “begged” the studio DOugraY scOtt
to let him go to China to promote the film. ’Mission: Impossible II’ actor Dougray Scott
“I love to show up for the audience and has revealed he couldn’t play Wolverine in
for the fans because God knows how the ‘X-Men’ films because Hollywood star
much they’ve showed up for me. Tom Cruise didn’t allow him. Scott, who played the villain,
I’m crazy. I’m begging Sony rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose in the 2000 action spy film,
to let me go to China, even was signed on to play Wolverine.
now. And you should see
everyone’s faces like, The actor was shooting for ‘Mission: Impossible II’, which
‘You’re going alone, went over time and budget, and Fox couldn’t continue to wait
buddy!’” for Scott before starting production.

The cast of the film Scott said Cruise, who was a “very powerful guy”, kept him
also includes Michelle from playing the adamantium-clawed mutant.
Rodriguez, Jordana
Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, “Tom Cruise didn’t let me do it. We were doing ‘Mission:
Nathalie Emmanuel, and Impossible’ and he was like, ‘You’ve got to stay and finish
Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, the film’ and I said I will, but I’ll go and do that as well. For
as well as newcomer John whatever reason he said I couldn’t.
Cena. “He was a very powerful guy. Other people were doing
everything to make it work,” he told The Telegraph.
‘Fast and Furious 9’ is slated to be
released on May 22, 2020. Hugh Jackman eventually played Wolverine

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