Drifter: Here’s the First Look at Fast & Furious Actor Sung Kang’s New Racing Movie

Sung Kang has “100 percent” embraced his relation arsenic an on-screen ambassador to the car community. The actor, possibly champion known for his relation arsenic Han Lue successful the Fast & Furious franchise, wrote, directed, and stars successful Drifter, a caller movie celebrating car civilization and each the stories it contains. IGN tin exclusively uncover the precise archetypal trailer for the movie, which you tin ticker successful the subordinate above.

In Drifter Kang plays a “solitary racetrack janitor with a acquisition for drifting [who] is haunted by his tragic past. Given a azygous accidental to vie astatine a pro drifting event, helium discovers his earthy endowment is useless without the 1 happening he's ever avoided: transportation with others.”

Kang, who archetypal appeared successful 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and starred successful 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th installments of the franchise, says that transportation is halfway to everything that went into Drifter. It’s thing helium began to clasp aft the decease of his person Fast & Furious costar Paul Walker, who passed distant successful 2013. I spoke to Kang astir making Drifter and however Walker's decease inspired him to observe the assemblage they shared.

“After 20 years successful [the Fast & Furious] franchise, you recognize the interaction that that movie had passim the world, but past you inquire ‘Why?’ It’s the taxable of family. [When] Paul passed away, I realized however connected radical were with us. I deliberation [in] precise fewer movies does the assemblage really emotionally spell done thing with you. We each shared a nonaccomplishment of someone. And possibly a batch of radical didn't cognize who Paul was personally, but helium knew the character. And to beryllium capable to stock that nonaccomplishment together, it solidified this deeper narration I person with our audience. I utilized to conscionable telephone them fans [but], they're not our fans. They are our friends. They are our family. They've gone done thing traumatic together. And contiguous I've embraced it.”

Sung Kang successful Drifter.

After making Drifter, Kang says that helium present has an adjacent deeper transportation to that community. The movie, for which Kang says “every penny” was financed with assistance from car enthusiasts each implicit the world, gave Kang anticipation aft immoderate pugnacious times successful Hollywood.

“[After] 31 years successful this crippled of being an histrion successful Hollywood, astir days I would aftermath up hopeless. My imagination arsenic a small kid was beryllium portion of projects that person substance. And arsenic I get older, I realized that telephone telephone was ne'er going to happen. And waking up the worst mentation of myself is truly hard. I'm not trying to play the violin, but artistically, I was conscionable unfulfilled.

“[Drifter] is precise parallel to what I've gone done connected a idiosyncratic travel arsenic a man. Vulnerability is truthful hard to stock with strangers. You privation to beryllium strong. And done that vulnerability, I've met a assemblage with the shared passionateness and it's allowed this imagination to hap and it's Drifter.”

Beyond Drifter, Kang is uncovering different ways to excavation into the enthusiasm ingrained wrong car culture. Enter: Forza Horizon 6. Kang teamed up with Xbox for a peculiar sweepstakes celebrating the crippled and Japanese car civilization successful particular. With the Horizon Passport Sweepstakes, Kang curated exclusive experiences wherever fans had a accidental to triumph an “epic supercharged escapade successful Japan.” That contention is present closed, but Kang says the concern was a cleanable fit.

Sung Kang successful Drifter.

“Forza Horizon 6 takes spot successful Japan and celebrates Japanese car culture. I person this emotion matter with the car civilization successful Japan. [The game] is celebrating the people, the cars, and the spot that person successful galore ways saved my beingness artistically [and] spiritually. I've been portion of different games and their attack is precise singular. It's astir racing and it's astir the cars. But Forza Horizon 6 is celebrating the ‘why’ down it and celebrating the antithetic dimensions of the culture.”

Kang says helium appreciates however the crippled allows radical who mightiness not person the resources to build, modify, and contention cars successful existent beingness a mode to enactment successful car culture.

“That's wherefore the Forza crippled is to maine truthful important. You recognize not everyone's going to beryllium capable to person entree to that tangible happening due to the fact that it costs money. These cars are not cheap. [In] the video game, the outgo of introduction is simply a batch less. It's inactive our community. It brings our assemblage together.”

Kang sees a nonstop enactment betwixt the enthusiasm that surrounds a large crippled similar Forza Horizon 6 to his quality to enactment unneurotic a feature-length movie without accepted Hollywood support.

“The assemblage that's portion of that crippled is truthful important to maine due to the fact that (they) came unneurotic and gave commencement to this movie. So I learned however to write. I learned however to direct. I learned lenses, camera. They said, ‘Don't springiness up. There's a communicative that you privation to tell. Be the dependable for this culture.’"

Michael Peyton is the Senior Editorial Director of Events & Entertainment astatine IGN, starring amusement contented and sum of tentpole events including IGN Live, San Diego Comic Con, gamescom, and IGN Fan Fest. He's spent 20 years moving successful the games and amusement industry, and his adventures person taken him everyplace from the Oscars to Japan to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Follow him connected Bluesky @MichaelPeyton