We’re Getting Four Fast & Furious TV Series, Apparently

Vin Diesel has announced four different spin-offs from The Fast and the Furious are in the works. NBCUniversal swear it’s just the one.

Fast X came out in May 2023. Fast Forever, purportedly the final film in the series, is due in March 2028. That’s almost a five year gap – the longest in the entire Fast & Furious franchise, a fact that we might chalk up to nobody much liking Fast X, and several of the co-stars in the long-running franchise hating each others’ guts. A little of both, perhaps.

But it’s been a bitter interregnum for fans of The Fast and the Furious, and I’m one of them. That’s a long time between quarter miles. But fret not: perhaps apprehending that he was ignoring the fambly, series star Vin Diesel announced at the NBCUniversal upfronts at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on Monday that four different live action series based on the franchise are currently in the works.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Diesel told the crowd, “For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more. 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.

“The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the Fast and Furious universe.”

However, in the same article, an insider at NBCUniversal is reported to have said that, no, they’re only working on one.

Dedicated fans will be across the fact that this is not the first time the car-centric franchise has hit the small screen – the animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers ran for six seasons on Netflix between 2019 and 2021, although who can say whether they’re canonical or not. Vin did voice Dominic Toretto for a handful of brief appearances, though, so I suppose so?

At the moment there’s no story or cast info on the upcoming series, which makes sense – we can’t even say for sure how many we’re getting. But we can say that Mike Daniels (Sons of Anarchy, the upcoming remake of The Rockford Files) will write the pilot for one of them. More news another quarter mile down the road, I guess.