First look at Charlize Theron’s Fast & Furious 8 villain

Charlize Theron in Fast & Furious 8

by James White |
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Regardless of whether it ends up being called Fast 8, Furious 8 or, in a moment of utter titling madness, &8, the next Fast & Furious film is now shooting. And the team has posted the first look at Charlize Theron's villain, the mysteriously-named Cipher.

Does this mean she's a master technical whizz, security conscious, or is it a comment on the fact that the Fast rogues are usually not all that complicated? We'll find out for sure next year, but Vin Diesel and the gang have been busy, shooting scenes in Iceland, Cuba and New York. The returning likes of Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jason Statham, Lucas Black and Nathalie Emmanuel are joined this time around by Scott Eastwood and Kristofer Hivju.

Dom and the gang will face their deadliest threat yet from Theron's Cipher, a woman in the deep, dark criminal underworld they first became exposed to in the last film. This time, of course, they won't have Paul Walker's Brian O'Connor, and Vin Diesel paid tribute to his late co-star recently on Instagram.

Fast 8 is scheduled to arrive in the UK on April 14 next year.

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