Dominic Toretto may live his life a quarter-mile at a time, but Vin Diesel — the man who has given the Fast & Furious franchise’s talismanic petrolhead life these past 25 years — most assuredly doesn’t. Not only is Mr. Diesel gearing up to release blockbuster saga closer Fast Forever in cinemas on 17 March, 2028, and not only is Mr. Diesel about to put the pedal to the metal at the Croisette with a 25th anniversary screening of The Fast And The Furious at the Cannes Film Festival later this month, but now he’s only gone and announced that four — yes, four! — Fast & Furious live-action TV series are in the works at Peacock.
As Variety reports from this morning NBCUniversal upfront presentation in New York, Vin Diesel took to the stage alongside Jimmy Fallon to announce the ambitious set of new projects that are set to expand the F&F universe. “For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more,” Diesel said. “They wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories. And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space that Fallon has mastered. And I had to wait till it was right… It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all, because that’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family would be protected in the TV space… The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the ‘Fast and Furious’ universe.”
Now, we don’t know what these four new Fast And Furious shows will look like yet, who will star in them, or what stories they will tell, but we do know that A) Vin Diesel has promised they’ll honour the franchise’s legacy, B) Vin Diesel will serve as producer, and C) Sons Of Anarchy’s Mike Daniels and Shades Of Blue’s Wolfe Coleman will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers on — and write the pilot for — at least one of them. Stay tuned for more news just as soon as we get it — the Fast family (faaaaamily) is about to get a whole lot bigger!