Overview
- Barry Hertz's Welcome to the Family recounts Casey's account that the F9 writers devised several post‑credit options to set up later antagonists.
- Casey says the team wrote nearly eight alternate 'button' scenes, ultimately releasing the version featuring Jason Statham.
- The reporting offers no evidence that Jamie Foxx was contacted or cast, and neither Foxx nor franchise principals have commented.
- Jason Momoa later became the primary antagonist in Fast X as Dante Reyes and is slated to return in Fast X: Part 2 with Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, and John Cena.
- The disclosures underscore a franchise strategy of crafting post‑credit moments to seed characters who were not yet part of the films.