The Fast and Furious franchise includes eight feature films and two short films, and it looks like it's about to include a series of spinoff films. It's Universal Pictures's highest-grossing film franchise with a combined box office of more than $5 billion.
Uhh, how did that happen?
This hour, we take a serious, public radio look at a series -- and a genre -- of films that serious public radio tends to ignore.
And: Slate's Stephen Metcalf joins us to talk about the masterwork of the action film form: Die Hard.
GUESTS:
- Stephanie Merry - Pop culture reporter for The Washington Post
- Stephen Metcalf - Slate's critic at large
- Bob Mondello - NPR's senior arts critic
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Colin McEnroe and Chion Wolf contributed to this show, which originally aired on April 27, 2017.
