Warner Bros. delays Taylor Sheridan’s F.A.S.T. to summer 2027

There's been a shuffle in the film calendar, and it's Sheridan-related—so, yes, that earns our attention. Taylor Sheridan's long-hyped project for Warner Bros., F.A.S.T., has slipped out of its spring spot and is now aimed at the early summer 2027 movie crowd. Frankly, it sounds like the studio is as jazzed about this as everyone who's watched Sheridan take over TV.

The breadth of Taylor Sheridan's body of work is simply astounding and unparalleled in sheer excellence and consistent quality and we could not be more honored to be making this film with him.

(That's Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group bosses, laying it on thick in the official spiel.)

The New Date and What's Behind It

Here's the new plan: instead of the original April 23, 2027 premiere, F.A.S.T. will now roll out on May 14, 2027. That drops it square in what the industry likes to call "summer movie season"—and, not coincidentally, slides it away from a direct clash with Spaceballs: The New One, which is apparently riding a fresh wave of Comic-Con hype. Not a bad bit of scheduling, if you ask me.

F.A.S.T. will now debut on May 14, 2027, kicking off the studio's summer slate.

A Wild Ride to the Big Screen

Some actual Hollywood nonsense here—the script goes all the way back to the mid-2010s, when Sheridan himself wanted to direct and the project was in Warner Bros.' hands with Chris Pratt tapped for the lead. That version faded when director Gavin O'Connor was attached, the studio swapped corporate overlords, and the powers-that-be couldn't decide whether $60–70 million was too much for streaming or too little for cinemas. End result: the film went on ice.

Cut to today: Sheridan is TV royalty, and with Warner Bros. Discovery now running the show, the film is very much back on. Ben Richardson (who directed most of Sheridan's 1923) is in the director's chair, not Sheridan, and the budget debate seems long forgotten.

Cast, Story, and Genre

So what would you be getting for your ticket?

• Brandon Sklenar (another 1923 alum) leads the cast, joined by LaKeith Stanfield, Jason Clarke, Sam Claflin, and Trevante Rhodes.
• The setup: a former special forces commando, down on his luck since returning home, gets tapped by the DEA for an off-the-books strike against drug dealers who are—just to spice things up—protected by the CIA.
• It's an action-thriller—think tough-guy shootouts, moral murk, and inter-agency bickering. Which, to be fair, is exactly what you'd bank on from Sheridan scripting anything.

Producing duties are split between Heyday Films and Bosque Ranch (Sheridan's own outfit). Richardson's nearly full-series run on 1923—and Sklenar's work there—suggest they know what style to aim for here.