Bow Wow in Fast and Furious 3

Just when you thought the 'Fast and Furious' franchise couldn't get any worse, they've decided to hire a teenage rapper.

Bow Wow will be in theaters this weekend in the roller skating movie 'Roll Bounce', but Zap2It reports that on his next project he'll get to upgrade to cars. Bow Wow will star in the third installment of 'The Fast and the Furious', hopefully to be titled something appropriately inane like 'Most Fastester'.

The 18-year-old rapper who does not like to be called "little" says the film will take place in Tokyo this time, and he'll star opposite Lucas Black. Missing, you may have noticed, are any of the actors involved in the previous two films. So at least they've got that going for them. Setting the tone for his movie, Bow Wow says, "'Fast and the Furious 3: Tokyo.' It's gonna be hot and different. My first action movie, so it's gonna be great."

Different is debatable, but what isn't, is that 'Fast and Furious 3' will be directed by Justin Lin, who is also helming the upcoming American remake of the Korean revenge pic 'Oldboy'. To me, it doesn't seem like he's into different, it seems like he's into redoing other people's work.

'Fast and Furious 3' starts shooting in October.