Fast & Furious: Vin Diesel announces four spin-off series for television
The engine is still hot. The franchise does not intend to stop its course after the last film…
Fast & Furious clearly doesn’t plan to slow down any time soon. While the saga celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with a special screening of the first film at the Cannes Film Festival (in the presence of Vin Diesel and producer Neal Moritz), Universal is already preparing the aftermath of Fast XI, supposed to be the last part of the Toretto family saga.
During the NBCUniversal presentation this Monday, Vin Diesel announced that… four live-action series derived from Fast & Furious were currently in development. Just that.
“Peacock is launching four series in the Fast and Furious universe,” the star said on stage. According to several sources, one of the series is already developed for the Peacock platform – which does not exist in France – while the other projects are progressing at different stages at Universal Television. Vin Diesel will produce these adaptations via his company One Race.
The pilot for the first series mentioned is written by Mike Daniels, recently chosen to revive The Rockford Files for NBC, alongside Wolfe Coleman. The two screenwriters had already collaborated on the series Shades of Blue. No details have filtered out on the storyline or the characters involved. But behind these projects, we find several historical pillars of the franchise: Neal Moritz, Chris Morgan – screenwriter of several films – and Jeff Kirschenbaum.
On stage, Vin Diesel explained that he had long refused the idea of extending the franchise to television, for fear of diluting the DNA of the saga.
“We are very protective of these films. But over the last ten years, we understood that the fans wanted more. They wanted to explore the characters and their stories more,” he explained. The actor says he changed his mind after producer Donna Langley took over oversight of NBCUniversal’s television operations last year.
“That’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international dimension and this family spirit would be protected on television.”
This is not the saga’s first foray outside of cinema: Vin Diesel, Neal Moritz and Chris Morgan are already producing the animated series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers for Netflix.
With more than $7 billion collected at the global box office across eleven films, the franchise remains one of Universal’s most lucrative. The final chapter, Fast Forever, is expected in theaters on March 17, 2028.
