Shrek And Fast And Furious Race To New Streaming Homes Next Week

Here’s one for the ‘blimey, you’re getting old’ files: both Shrek and The Fast and the Furious hit cinemas twenty-five years ago. Apparently, 2001 wasn’t just about Tony Blair and dodgy pop music—it also gave us a giant green ogre and an improbably shiny crew of street racers. To celebrate this milestone, four films from each of those franchises are turning up on Peacock for your streaming pleasure.

What’s Landing on Peacock?

Starting June 1st, Peacock’s pinching quite the slice of nostalgia with both the Shrek and Fast and Furious back catalogues. Here’s what’s coming your way:

• Shrek films: Shrek (2001), Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek the Third (2007), and Shrek Forever After (2010). Yes, only the core four—so if you’re after the Puss in Boots spin-offs, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
• Fast and Furious: The Fast and the Furious (2001), 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003), Tokyo Drift (2006), and—making a massive jump—Fast X (2023). Not the most obvious line-up, if I’m honest, but apparently the idea is to celebrate where it all started... and, er, where it’s got to now.

Ogres and Outlaws: Who’s in the Cast?

The Shrek gang need no introduction—Mike Myers’ questionable Scottish accent as Shrek will echo through our nightmares forever, Eddie Murphy’s Donkey does what Eddie Murphy does, and Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas throw themselves into Fiona and Puss in Boots with a kind of gusto that makes you wonder what the catering was like at DreamWorks.
Meanwhile, Fast and Furious serves up Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Dwayne Johnson (eventually), Sung Kang and, of course, the late Paul Walker—whose brooding earnestness kind of anchored the whole soap opera/car chase madness.

New Films Incoming (Just Not Soon)

If you’re slow-rolling your way to cinema, both franchises have new entries cooking. Shrek 5 is coming to cinemas on 30 June 2027—with all the main voices returning, according to the studio. As for the Fast crew, the next film will apparently be called Fast Forever (yes, really), aiming for 17 March 2028, with Louis Leterrier back as director. So just a short five-year wait if you’ve got the patience of an ancient tortoise.

For the Completists: Official Synopses, Reworded for Sanity

Back when Shrek first turned up, it was pitched as the ultimate fairy tale piss-take: an ogre minding his own business gets lumbered with a horde of fairy tale rejects turfed out by the loathsome Lord Farquaad. To reclaim his swamp, he gets roped into rescuing Princess Fiona, who—shock twist—might be packing a few secrets of her own.

If you’ve reclaimed enough brain cells to remember the original Fast and Furious, it’s all LA street racing, buzz-cut machismo, and a lot of absolutely nonsensical car physics. Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) runs the roads, young Paul Walker’s suspiciously clean-cut Brian tags along, everyone’s got a secret, and it teeters between Point Break with cars and high-octane daytime telly melodrama.

Quote Worth the Space

'Once upon a time, in a faraway swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly shattered by an invasion of annoying fairy tale characters...'

In other words, it’s all about finding some peace and quiet—and absolutely failing at it.