Get Ready For More Family, Because Hollywood Is Bringing the ‘Fast & Furious’ Franchise to TV

After decades of twists and turns and billions of dollars earned at the box office, the Fast & Furious franchise is headed to a whole new domain.

Franchise star and producer Vin Diesel confirmed the news during an appearance at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation on Monday. More specifically, he claimed that four different series “from the Fast and Furious universe” are in the works, although some outlets are claiming that only one show is currently in active development by Universal Television for Peacock.

Diesel is set to executive produce the Fast and Furious show, which will have a pilot episode written by Mike Daniels (Sons of Anarchy, Pan Am) and Wolfe Coleman (9-1-1: Lone Star, The Village). Both of them previously worked together on Shades of Blue, the short-lived NBC procedural starring Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta, and will co-showrun the show if it goes to series.

No plot details surrounding the Fast & Furious TV show (or shows) are currently known at this time. A logline simply saying “More to come…” was unveiled at the Upfronts. Executive producers on the project will also include Sam Vincent, Neal Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan.

“As you all know, we are very precious about these movies but over the last decade, we’ve realized that the fans have wanted more, they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories,” Diesel explained during the presentation. “And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.”

Once Universal’s Donna Langley began to oversee the television side of things, Diesel began to feel that the timing was right and that she would help maintain “the integrity of the characters” and “the international appeal.”

What Will the Fast & Furious TV Shows Be About?

Two things are worth mentioning here: one is that the Fast franchise has technically branched off into television already, through the DreamWorks Animation series Fast & Furious Spy Racers that ran for six seasons on Netflix. But the prospect of a new live-action offshoot is definitely uncharted territory, and there’s no telling exactly what setting or crop of characters could be at the center of it.

The other concerns Diesel’s comments about four Fast series being in development. It could categorically be true, and Universal Television is just being conservative until things really get off the ground. But Diesel does have a history of teasing projects regardless of whether or not they come to fruition, as evidenced by everything from The Last Witch Hunter 2 to a storyline or full-on solo movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe involving Planet X, the home world of his Guardians of the Galaxy character Groot.

Either way, this news is yet another massive update in the Fast franchise, after the first details surrounding its eleventh and final film were finally confirmed earlier this year. Titled Fast Forever, it is directed by Louis Leterrier off of a script from Michael Lesslie, and is scheduled to be released on March 17, 2028.

“No one said the road would be easy… but it’s ours,” Diesel said on social media when announcing the film’s title and release date. “One that has defined us and become our legacy… And a legacy… lasts Forever.”

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