For a franchise that has spent the better part of two decades insisting that family is everything, Fast & Furious is about to get considerably bigger.
According to Deadline, Peacock has finally ordered a live-action Fast & Furious television series for a 2028 premiere. It may in turn mark the end of the storied big-screen franchise, Fast Forever (also set for 2028), just as it finds new life on streaming.
In other words, Dominic Toretto and company are apparently parking the Dodge Charger for good, but Universal appears to be opening up another garage.
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So what do we know? Well, the new Fast and Furious television series will be produced by Universal, with Sons of Anarchy veteran Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman signed on as co-showrunners and writers of the pilot.
Vin Diesel remains in the fray as an executive producer, but there’s no suggestion (yet) that he’ll be reprising his role as Dom Toretto. Beyond that, details are thinner than a burnt tyre at the end of a street race. Though they’ll have plenty of material to play with.
The Fast and the Furious first graced our screens in 2001, when Vin Diesel was stealing DVD players rather than cars from helicopters and the late, great Paul Walker was just an undercover cop busting illegal street racers.
Looking back, it was peak early-noughties cinema set against the neon-lit Los Angeles backdrop.
Modded cars with enormous spoilers somehow absolutely sending it through the underground meets with a rather ambiguous explanation of how the NOS actually worked; Ja Rule on the soundtrack (how good was that soundtrack?), and Rob Cohen filming modified Japanese imports like they were the mechanical equivalent of supermodels.
Twenty-five years and 10 films later, it’s evolved into one of Hollywood's most lucrative action franchises, even if the later movies did descend into previously unfathomable levels of silliness.
It’s why speculating about how and where the new series will go is largely redundant at this point. But knowing Fast, there will probably still be a 1968 Dodge Charger flying through a window by episode three. Just please don’t take us back to space.