Fast & Furious ends in cinemas in 2028, the same year its live-action TV series starts on Peacock
Buckle up: Fast and Furious is roaring onto TV as a live-action series — and a very familiar face is sliding into the executive producer’s seat.
Well, it was only a matter of time. Fast & Furious is getting the TV treatment, with Peacock ordering a live-action series based on the never-ending franchise. Honestly, the only real surprise is that it’s taken them this long.
Fast Forever will finally reach cinemas on 17 March 2028, setting a new record for the franchise's longest gap between instalments.
The Small Screen Shift
If you’re wondering who’s pulling the strings, it’s Mike Daniels (from Sons of Anarchy) and Wolfe Coleman (linked to 9-1-1: Lone Star), heading up as writers and co-showrunners. They’re also executive producing, along with the usual suspects: Vin Diesel himself, Sam Vincent, Neal H. Moritz, Pavun Shetty, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan. In short, most of the same minds keeping the petrol-head spirit alive on the big screen.
The plan is for the series to land on Peacock in 2028. That year is about to get properly crowded, as the final film—now officially titled Fast Forever—is also aiming for a March release. So we might actually get a double-whammy of Torretto family drama in a single year, provided delays don’t rear their usual ugly head.
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Vin Diesel Pulls Back the Curtain
Vin Diesel, who frankly has always treated the Fast saga as a sacred text, gave the first official nudge about the small-screen leap at the NBCUniversal Upfront event earlier this year. He pointed out that while the team has guarded the films quite closely over the years, the demand for expansion couldn’t be ignored:
“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 admitted he finally warmed to the TV idea once Universal Studios chief Donna Langley took charge of NBCU’s television division. There was, in his view, a solid assurance that the show would respect the formula that’s kept the films ticking: the characters, the big action, and of course, the whole ‘found family’ routine. He also mentioned that three other possible Fast projects for TV are on the drawing board, so it sounds like Universal has every intention of milking this thing for every last drop of nitrous.
We still have no real detail on plot, casting, or whether any of the core film gang will appear. But you can probably guarantee fast cars, questionable physics, elaborate heists, and bottles of beer held at strange angles. I wouldn’t go in expecting art, but I’d put money on spectacle.
Status of the Finale
Meanwhile, the films themselves are dragging their heels a bit: Fast X wrapped up with a classic cliffhanger, leaving fans in limbo for what, if all goes as planned, will be a five-year wait until Fast Forever shows up in cinemas. That’s the longest gap the series has ever gone without a new film. Diesel reckons the script (by Michael Lesslie) left him bawling—his words, not mine. He’s been hyping it as not just good, but the best script he’s read in decades. The actual story, as ever, is being kept in a Fort Knox-level vault until someone inevitably spoils it on social media.
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