Hopefully this is one of those situations where the last minute re-writes actually end up making it better. That seems like a hell of a task.
I read the script four times on the plane, and I said I had some ideas, and they said ‘great, because the whole third act is changing. Can you rewrite it tonight?’ I was literally on no sleep. I’d been on no sleep for days. Obviously, this was not going to be set in stone. But I was like, ‘okay, yeah, I’ve got some ideas,’ and started writing. And obviously, since the third act was changing, I needed to change the first act. And when you rewrite the third act, and the first act, the second act has to go. So basically I had to on the fly rebuild the airplane.
'Fast X' Director Louis Leterrier Had to Rewrite Third Act on Four Days' Notice
The director replaced Justin Lin, who had already written the script.
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