Vin Diesel Directing Fast and Furious Prequel

Here's news to get my liberal heart and my gossipy soul pounding in unison.

Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, and Sung Kang will all be in Fast and Furious, the fourth installment of the The Fast and the Furious franchise.

Fast and Furious will be a direct sequel of the first movie, while the other two were more spin-offs. I dig Paul Walker 'cuz he's hot, but I dig Vin Diesel more for reasons outlined here.

Michelle Rodriguez, aside from being in some awesome movies (especially Girlfight), and being a Latina actress who takes Latina roles that are mostly, arguably not stereotypes, is an out lesbian in Hollywood. That takes steel ovaries.

Sung Kang is an Asian American actor whose rise through community films like Better Luck Tomorrow have the entire Asian American community at his back, can do very little wrong in my book.

Plus, Justin Lin is directing this movie.

But the best part, the bestest bestest part, is that Vin Diesel will be directing a 20 minute prequel to the whole franchise, starring everybody.

Sigh. Some days are just really good news days. (Via.)