Summary
Cipher’s alliance with Dom’s family in Fast X hints at potential betrayal or a breakdown of their partnership in Fast & Furious 11.
Mia’s involvement in Fast X raises questions about her role in Fast & Furious 11, as well as the potential return of Brian O’Conner.
Tej’s reference to time travel in Fast X suggests the possibility of it being incorporated into Fast & Furious 11, with Tej and Ramsey being the tech-savvy members who could develop it.
Fast X is the 10th chapter of the Fast & Furious franchise, and it sets up Fast & Furious 11 in a number of ways. In Fast X, Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) leads his family on their latest mission against the revenge-minded Dante Reyes (Jason Momoa). With Fast X acting as part one of the two-part finale for the Fast & Furious franchise, the movie leaves far more unanswered questions that most Fast & Furious movies have in the past.
Fast X director Louis Letterier has teased how the movie sets up Fast & Furious 11, with Letterier specifying five key scenes as having hidden clues. Though Leterrier has only explicitly identified one such scene, there are quite a few in the movie that overtly present themselves as setting up some aspect of Fast & Furious 11 (though The Rock’s end-credits cameo is not among them, with it instead setting up the franchise’s Hobbs & Reyes spin-off.) Here are the seven Fast X scenes that hint at where Fast & Furious 11 is headed.
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7 Cipher Sets Up Fast & Furious 11’s War In Fast X Scene
Charlize Theron’s Fast Saga villainess Cipher becomes an unexpected ally of Dom and his family when she shows up on his front door step, having narrowly escaped from the clutches of Dante. The scene of Cipher striking a truce with Dom and his wife Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) has been specified by Letterier as one to pay attention to for its hidden signals of how the Fast saga will progress. Given Cipher’s history of bringing nothing but grief to Dom and his family, this could hint to a few possibilities for the story of Fast and Furious 11.
While Cipher and Dom’s family have a common enemy in Dante, Cipher herself is still anything but trustworthy. With Letty initiating their fight scene in the Arctic black site later in the movie, she clearly is not prepared to trust Cipher long term, and Cipher is certainly not inclined to do the same beyond their immediate conflict with Dante. This might very well mean that Cipher’s team-up with Dom’s family will fully go off the rails in Fast & Furious 11, with either Cipher betraying them or the two sides becoming enemies again by some other means.
6 Brian & Mia Return After Hiding Safely In Fast X
Fast X’s main plot, it also raises questions about her involvement in Fast & Furious 11, as well as that of her husband.
After Paul Walker’s tragic death in 2013, Brian O’Conner was retired from the Fast Saga in Furious 7, with Dom and his friends deciding his and Mia’s growing family life was their new priority. Despite this, Mia still returned to lend the group a hand in F9, with Brian back home looking after Little B (though Brian himself made an off-screen return by the end of the movie.) While Mia might jump back into action in Fast & Furious 11, Brian’s arguably needed return would still be a huge risk, creating one of the biggest challenges Fast & Furious 11 has to address.
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5 Tej Teases Fast & Furious 11 Time Traveling In Fast X Scene
As the Fast & Furious franchise has drifted further and further away from realism, a popular fan theory has emerged that the series will eventually bring time-travel into the equation. While that does not happen in Fast X, Tej (Ludacris) nonetheless alludes to it when he, Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel), and Roman (Tyrese Gibson) are in an internet café in London. Perplexed by how low-tech the café is, Tej asks “Did I just time travel?”, which could be a subtle fourth-wall breaking hint of time-travel being a part of Fast & Furious 11.
What makes Tej’s line particularly intriguing is that he and Ramsey would be the members of Dom’s family best qualified to develop a time-travel mechanism. In the Fast Saga, Tej and Ramsey have always been the most tech-savvy members of Dom’s crew, by far. The fact that it is Tej referencing time-travel in Fast X, with Ramsey close by when he does, might be a hint that the two of them are already thinking about how to perfect Doc Brown’s time-traveling DeLorean would be for Dom and company.
4 The Plane With Dom’s Family Crashing
As Dom chases Dante to the dam in Fast X’s climactic chase scene, the villain pulls an unexpected trick out of his hat when Aimes (Alan Ritchson) is revealed to be his ally, with Aimes shooting down the cargo plane carrying Tej, Ramsey, Han, and Roman. The plane crashes off-screen, but of course, off-screen deaths for Dom’s family are extremely hard to take seriously as legitimate possibility. The big question is how Tej, Ramsey, Han, and Roman survive the crash.
The plane crash scene does not show any of them parachuting from the plane, but the Fast family could surely pull off an escape by simply driving a car out of the cargo ramp. The question then becomes how they will reunite with Dom and lend him a hand after the crash. This could be a key part of Fast & Furious 11’s story, with the movie intentionally keeping Dom’s crew broken up as part of Dante’s divide and conquer strategy.
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3 The “Death” Of Jakob Toretto
During Fast X’s big chase scene in its third act, Jakob Toretto makes the ultimate sacrifice, intentionally crashing his car into those driven by Dante’s associates. Even with the huge explosion the crash causes, no Fast & Furious death can be taken at face value, especially with Han (Sung Kang) having “died” under very similar circumstances. This leaves the distinct possibility that Jakob will return to help Dom and his family again in Fast & Furious 11.
Of course, with that said, Jakob’s apparent demise happens swiftly enough that it would be tricky even for the Fast Saga to concoct a semi-plausible explanation for how he was able to escape the explosion in time (and off-screen.) It might be that Jakob Toretto could be one of the very few Fast & Furious heroes to actually die and the reality of his death will be made clear in Fast & Furious 11. Naturally, that would be quite a twist for Fast & Furious 11 to present.
2 The Dam Collapsing In Front Of Dom & Little B
Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto is about as close to invincible as any action movie hero has ever gotten, but even he faces a dilemma like no other in Fast X’s cliffhanger ending. After driving his car down the face of a dam to escape two exploding semi-trucks, Dom and Little B find themselves right in the path of a collapsing dam thanks to Dante’s rigged explosives. It goes without saying that this is going to factor heavily into Fast X’s opening.
Even without Dom’s borderline immortality, there is little reason to think that Fast & Furious 11 will kick off with both he and his son being killed off in the first few minutes. Nonetheless, Dom and Little B have quite a challenge literally right in front of them in getting to safety before the dam fully collapses and a tidal wave comes their way. They could escape with the help of some unexpected ally dropping in to save them, which itself might hint to where Fast & Furious 11 will head from there.
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1 The Return of Gisele In The Movie’s Ending Scene
Gal Gadot’s Gisele Yashar was seemingly killed off in 2013’s Fast & Furious 6, but as mentioned previously, death has about as much relevance as gravity in the Fast & Furious universe, with Gisele returning in Fast X’s ending. Gisele’s death in Fast & Furious 6 saw her fall from a cargo plane speeding across a runway, which realistically would have killed her instantly, but she appears completely unharmed in her return in Fast X. Clearly, this is meant to indicate she will be an important player in Fast & Furious 11.
Gisele’s return also comes on the heels of the return of her boyfriend Han in F9, Han having also been presumed dead for years after Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift. While Gisele’s reunion with Han will likely be a major part of the story of Fast & Furious 11, it might be a fully amicable. With Gisele having potentially faked her death in Fast & Furious 6 like Han did, both she and Han might harbor some bitterness towards the other for letting them believe they had been dead for so long, which could be part of how Fast X sets up their story in Fast & Furious 11.