The upcoming Vin Diesel-starrer F9, the latest release in the Fast & Furious franchise, is the Hollywood blockbuster that Cannes Film Festival authorities promised to screen at the gala, to be held from July 6 to 17 this year.

Ever since Cannes chief Thierry Fremaux told Variety that the forthcoming 73rd edition of the festival would screen a “planetary blockbuster”, a guessing game started among the worldwide press over which film he meant.