The Fate of the Furious'creenwriter Explains Dom's Betrayal

Chris Morgan reveals how they come
up with the idea to set Dom (Vin
Diesel) against his family in the eight
installment of the 'Furious' film series.
Ahead the release of " The Fate of the
Furious ", screenwriter Chris Morgan
reveals how they come up with the
idea of Dom's (Vin Diesel ) betrayal.
The eight installment of the "Furious"
film series is set to hit theaters in the
U.S. on April 14.
Chris explains, "I think that is a direct
result of the last film. With ' Furious 7',
everything that everyone had to go
through considering the tragedy with
Paul [Walker], and the real question
during production - Do we shut
down? Do we continue without him?
What would that look like?"
"Is there a way to do it that would
give a good tribute to him? We all
linked arms and came up with what I
think is a really good end of the film
that let people have a cathartic
moment. We shared that all together,"
he tells EW , "That movie came out, did
really well, and technically could
have been the end of the franchise."
Chris believes the "Furious" movie
franchise will end if they don't give
something different. "We all agreed
that we weren't going unless there
was a story that was so different, and
really felt right for our characters,"
he shares, "For seven films, Dom and
the crew worked together and solved
a big problem, and they stayed
together as family. We all started
thinking, if we're gonna do something
really different, let's take that and
turn it on its head."
"What Dom has been preaching for
seven films - family, family, family,
that's the code you stick to it, no
matter what - what happens if your
father figure, your brother, the guy
who has been giving you your moral
compass for your entire life suddenly
breaks his? It comes down to a
question of faith. Do you hold close to
that code anyway? Do you abandon
it? I think that was what was most
intriguing for us," he adds, "Just in
terms of a bad guy for our team to go
up against, we've seen them go after
all sorts of bad guys. What happens if
you have to go up against Dom?"
Chris praises Charlize Theron who
plays the villainous character Cipher.
"She's incredible to work with,
incredible. We were pursuing her for
a couple of films now, for the last
couple. We would go to her and go,
'Listen, we're thinking about this,
what do you think, can we do a
character?' She was always interested,
but we never found the right thing, it
never worked out because of
schedule, it didn't click because of this
or that...What she wanted to play was
someone who sets out to break Dom
with the thing that is his greatest
strength."