The latest Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham Fast and Furious blockbuster is about to hit screens and is expected to rake in record box office for its opening. Initially reviewed as “complete nonsense but disarmingly pleasurable,” when it started 18 years ago, the franchise has gone from strength to strength commercially over nine movies which are an “ongoing petrolhead epic brimming with thrills, spills and smoke-belching set-pieces.” This one pits lawman Dwayne Johnson and renegade secret service man Jason Statham against Idris Elba’s super-villain.
Dwayne Johnson, 2 May 1972 6.02 pm San Leandro, California, started life as a professional wrestler and shifted over to become one of the highest grossing actors of all time. He’s a heavyweight Sun Taurus trine a lucky and ambitious Jupiter Moon in Capricorn; with a ferociously determined and charming Mars Venus in Gemini square Pluto.
Jason Statham, 26 July 1967 no time sadly, was heavily into sports at school, martial arts, football and diving, and moved via modelling into action movies. He’s an enthusiastic and entertaining Sun Jupiter in Leo with an ultra-determined square to Mars in Scorpio.
He’s a good pairing career-wise with Johnson since his Sun Jupiter falls in Johnson’s 10th house – and that translates in their relationship chart to an exuberant, high energy and fortunate composite Sun trine Jupiter, sextile Mars. There will be some alpha-male jousting since Johnson’s never-say-die Mars square Pluto collides with Statham’s Uranus Pluto in Virgo. And there’s a power struggling Sun square Pluto in the relationship chart but the creative tension probably helps to put an edge on their performances.