Before the abysmal mess that was Fast X , the ninth Fast and Furious film, F9 , did the most insane thing imaginable. After literal years and years of joking about it, F9 actually sent characters to space. It was Ludacris (literally and figuratively), it was hilarious, and it was wonderful . But now, looking back, one of Universal Studios’ most powerful executives regrets it.

“I’m sorry that we sent them into space,” Donna Langley, the Chief Content Officer for NBCUniversal Studio Group, said recently, as reported by Variety . “We can never get that genie back.”

Langley is right about the second point, of course. Actually doing the most over-the-top thing imaginable in the franchise, when you still have movies to come, maybe wasn’t the right timing. Going to space

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