I specifically asked if there was one thing that he really wanted to see from early drafts find its way into the finished cut of the movie, and it was the Statham vs. The Johnson vs. Diesel battle that he was eager to highlight.
In The Fate of the Furious, we get to see some good one-on-one battles between Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson, as well as Johnson and Vin Diesel, but sadly we don’t ever get to see the three of them get together at any point and exchange blows.
I learned about this scene that never was yesterday when I had the pleasure of hopping on the phone with F. Gary Gray in advance of the movie’s upcoming home video release, and discussed how the film wound up changing through development.