Fast and Furious star Tyrese Gibson has thrown shade at spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw after criticising Dwayne Johnson for delaying the main franchise.
In 2017, the actor – who first appeared as Roman Pearce in 2 Fast 2 Furious – lashed out at the spin-off following Fast & Furious 9‘s release date change from 2019 to 2020.
Now, in an Instagram post he went on to delete, Gibson shared a screengrab of a misleading article headlined: ”Hobbs & Shaw has lowest Fast & Furious box office opening since Tokyo Drift.”
Gibson captioned the link with: ”Breaking up the family clearly doesn’t have the value that one would assume it does.”
It’s worth pointing out that Hobbs & Shaw knocked The Lion King off the box office top spot around the world and has hauled in global takings of $180m.
After deleting the initial post, Gibson shared another, writing: “Just gonna sit here. Leave my glasses on. Stay quiet and act like nothing ever happened. Why? Cause nothing did happen.”
Gibson had been angry that the main Fast & Furious franchise was put on hold due to Johnson’s idea to develop a spin-off surrounding characters Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham).
“Congratulations to @TheRock and your brother in law aka 7 bucks producing partner @hhgarcia41 for making the fast and the furious franchise about YOU [sic],” he wrote in 2017.
The franchise will resume proceedings with next May’s ninth entry. Director Justin Lin, a familiar name to those who’ve followed the series since its inception, will direct both the ninth and tenth entries.
Lin’s back-to-back sequels will be released just one year apart, with the untitled one due in April 2021.
You can find a list of every single Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson films – ranked from least to most ridiculous – here and find out how new film Hobbs & Shaw shreds the Game of Thrones finale here.
