Either Fast And Furious 9 is going to space or Michelle Rodriguez is a really good liar

The moment the Fast And Furious movies went from being about people who race cars and steal DVDs to being superhero car adventures, the one thing everyone has wanted to see is Dominic Toretto strapping a rocket to the back of his Charger and launching it into fucking space. They’re already dropping cars of out planes, jumping cars across skyscrapers, and fighting submarines with cars, so where do you go after eight movies other than space? Well, the James Bond series made it to 11 before going to space, but they barely ever connect from movie to movie. Fast And Furious is a proper saga that often makes actual narrative sense and only sometimes requires you to explain that three of the more recent movies take place in 2006.
All of that is to say that Fast And Furious 9, which was supposed to come out back in May but was pushed to 2021 because of COVID, apparently involves the Fast family—dramatic pause—going to space. The first indication that this might be the case came up during an interview on SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle Show back in July, when co-host Julia Cunningham offered a totally hypothetical scenario to Ludacris about a future Fast movie potentially going to space. Ludacris, who has apparently been taking interview lessons from Mark Ruffalo, then made a point to go back and tell Cunningham that the thing she suggested was a pretty clever guess. And then he realized how obvious that hint was. It’s a pretty funny clip:
This week, Michelle Rodriguez stopped by The Jess Cagle Show, and it turns out that she is… even worse at keeping secrets. Cunningham, possibly as a joke, brought up the idea of Ludacris going to space, but rather than shrug it off or feign ignorance, Rodriguez decided to basically confirm that it’s true. It’s also a pretty funny clip: