The Fast & Furious saga has spent 25 years finding increasingly creative ways to keep going. Apparently, even the end of its main movie series won’t be enough to finally bring the franchise to a stop.
A live-action Fast & Furious television series has officially been greenlit at Peacock. The show is currently targeting a 2028 premiere, although an exact release date hasn’t been announced.
Seeing as Fast Forever, billed as the 11th and final installment in the main movie saga, is scheduled to arrive in theaters on March 17, 2028, that makes the timing of the TV show interesting. The franchise could effectively finish one chapter and begin another in the same year.
Deadline first reported the greenlight, confirming that Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will write the series and serve as co-showrunners. Vin Diesel is also involved behind the scenes as an executive producer.
Vin Diesel Wants To Expand The Characters
Plot details are still being kept under wraps, so there’s no confirmation about which characters will appear or where the show fits into the movie timeline. Diesel has previously suggested television could give the franchise room to explore familiar characters in greater depth.
“For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more,” Diesel said when discussing the project at NBCUniversal’s Upfront presentation in May. He specifically pointed toward expanding the stories of legacy characters.
Diesel will executive produce alongside One Race’s Sam Vincent, Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, plus Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan. Universal Television will produce the series.
There Could Be Four Fast & Furious Shows
One live-action show might only be the beginning. Diesel announced in May that four television projects based around the Fast & Furious universe were being developed for Peacock.
Deadline previously reported separate projects involving writers and producers including Nick Wootton, Charmaine DeGraté, Ingrid Escajeda and Joe Henderson. Peacock hasn’t greenlit all four, however, so it’s too early to assume they’ll each make it to production.
This also won’t technically be the franchise’s first trip to television. Netflix released the animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers, which ran for six seasons between 2019 and 2021.
The Movies May End, The Franchise Won’t
The original The Fast and the Furious arrived in 2001 as a relatively grounded story about Los Angeles street racing. Since then, the series has generated over $7 billion at the global box office while evolving into something that’s unrecognizable from its humble street-racing roots.
Whether television brings the franchise back toward smaller-scale car culture or continues the globe-trotting spectacle isn’t known yet. Either way, anyone expecting Fast Forever to put Fast & Furious permanently in the garage probably shouldn’t count on it.