‘Fast and Furious’ Star Michelle Rodriguez Rips ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Writer Over ‘Justice for Han’ Comment

Michelle Rodriguez did not mince words in a Monday night tweet about writer Chris Morgan, who is best known as the screenwriter for most of the “Fast and Furious” movies and the just-released “Hobbs & Shaw” spinoff — but not the upcoming “Fast & Furious 9.” In the tweet, Rodriguez linked to an interview Morgan gave to Entertainment Weekly in which he promised fans that the franchise will eventually directly address #JusticeForHan, and she delivered some harsh words in response: “I’ve been around since the beginning way before Chris Morgan came along & he has absolutely nothing to do with where this narrative is or where it’s going FYI.” Fans began the #JusticeForHan refrain upon the release of “The Fate of the Furious” when Jason Statham’s character, Deckard Shaw, became a protagonist character even though he had previously murdered Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang), a fan favorite character who featured in four of the previous movies. Their concerns were not really addressed in “Fate,” though that film did at least put Shaw into a situation in which he had to take a particularly heroic action — saving the baby son of Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) in one of the best sequences...