Dwayne Johnson shares the first look at Idris Elba in Hobbs and Shaw

Hobbs & Shaw is the Fast & Furious spin-off movie starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. The title always makes me think of Calvin and Hobbes and I now want a live-action film of that with Statham as a grown-up Calvin and The Rock as Hobbes.

I digress.

Back to Hobbs & Shaw. The film will follow Dwayne Johnson’s Diplomatic Security Service agent Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s assassin Deckard Shaw. They will be going up against Idris Elba as a character called Brixton.

What’s the betting they end up beating him, become friends and Brixton helps them out in the next film?

The spin-off is a separate film from the in-development ninth and tenth films in the series. Fast & Furious 9 will be released on 10th April 2020 with Fast & Furious 10 set to conclude the series on 2nd April 2021.

Hobbs & Shaw is due out on 2nd August 2019.

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I learned a long time ago (when I was a very sinful eyebrow raising villainous man in the crazy world of pro wrestling;) that heroes are only as great as their greatest villains. A pleasure to introduce the man himself @idriselba we brought in to our Fast & Furious franchise to wreak havoc, hell and mayhem on our heroes HOBBS & SHAW. The name: BRIXTON. The record: UNDEFEATED. The promise: SHOWDOWN OF ALL SHOWDOWNS. So cool having my brother @idriselba come and play in our sandbox. This one’s been years in the making!! As I always say, we either gonna get along or we gonna get it on… and fuck getting along 😈 #BRIXTON #TheConsequenceAgent #HellRaiser HOBBS & SHAW SUMMER 2019 📸 @hhgarcia41

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