From the director of Fast X and The Transporter comes The Last House, which sees Wagner Moura and Greta Lee trapped in a house. Coming soon to Netflix! If you’ve been wondering what director Louis Leterrier has been up to while his sequel to Fast X is stuck in a development garage, here’s the answer. ... Fast X director Louis Leterrier has made a sci-fi thriller, The Last House
From the director of Fast X and The Transporter comes The Last House, which sees Wagner Moura and Greta Lee trapped in a house. Coming soon to Netflix!
If you’ve been wondering what director Louis Leterrier has been up to while his sequel to Fast X is stuck in a development garage, here’s the answer. It turns out that the French filmmaker has been quietly working away on a contained sci-fi thriller called The Last House.
Starring Greta Lee and Wagner Moura, it’s said to be about a family who wind up trapped in their own home by some unspecified presence. The Hollywood Reporter describes Leterrier’s film as a sci-fi thriller, so we’re guessing the presence is alien or maybe an angry time-traveller. Or maybe an angry, time-travelling alien. We’ll have to wait and see on that score.
It’s a marked change of pace for Leterrier, who was brought on to the production of Fast X when original director Justin Lin abruptly left. Amid script rewrites and huge action set-pieces, the maker of The Transporter and The Incredible Hulk found himself calling the shots on one of the most expensive films ever made. It’s thought that the final price tag was around $340m – before marketing.
The cost was so huge that Universal Pictures has put a pause on the whole franchise while it mulls what to do next. At one stage, Fast X was supposed to be the first half of a two-part grand-finale, with the 2023 ending on a major cliffhanger. There’s since been a major rethink, with the next film now being called Fast Forever and said to be leaning more on franchise nostalgia – it’ll go back to the illegal street racing roots of the 2001 original, apparently.
Fast Forever isn’t due out until 2028 – and the script was still being rewritten as of March – so Leterrier has kept himself busy with what sounds like a contained chamber piece instead. There are no huge egos for a start, and setting your story in a fairly ordinary-looking house should alleviate the need for expensive stunts involving cars. The script is by Matthew Robinson, who wrote The Invention Of Lying and Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die, the latter directed by Gore Verbinski. Its original title was 11817.
Unlike a Fast film, The Last House have the demands of an expensive cinema release hanging over it, either; instead, it’s heading to Netflix on the 7th August. It’s a good cast (Riley Chung, Emma Ho, Gabriel Barbosa and Noah Alexander Sosnowski round it out), we like sci-fi, and we quite like houses. It could be a top-quality combo.
Leterrier also has another sci-fi piece on the way; Liminal, set to star Vanessa Kirby and Yahya Abdul Mateen II. He could be moving onto that one after Fast Forever. Or maybe, due to endless rewrites, a nervous studio and interfering movie stars, Fast Forever will never actually happen, leaving Leterrier to mutter ‘bof’ to himself and make Liminal instead.
Either way, we’ll keep you posted.
