The Fast & Furious family is getting even bigger. Today at the NBCUniversal upfronts, Vin Diesel announced a new Fast and the Furious TV series is in the works at Peacock. The long-running franchise that began with fast cars but eventually grew into a massive global espionage spectacle, will make its way for the first time into television and streaming.
Diesel announced that Peacock would be launching four Fast & Furious shows, but for now only one is confirmed. No plot details have been revealed, and that includes which characters will be the focus. Will the show center on popular legacy characters, or introduce new ones?
Along with Diesel as an exec-producer, the series also boasts franchise writer Chris Morgan, and producer Neal Moritz. Mike Daniels and Wolfe Colman will write the pilot and act as co-showrunners. The duo directed episodes of the Jennifer Lopez cop series, Shades of Blue.
This is the first concrete news we’ve had about Fast & Furious in quite a while. Fast X was released in 2023 as the beginning of the franchise’s end. However, it underperformed at the box office, and the final chapter, titled Fast Forever, has been delayed by budget overruns and script rewrites. It’s finally due to open on March 17th 2028. Will audiences even care at that point?
