We finally know when the Fast and Furious family will be back on the big screen.
Universal Pictures has announced that the 11th mainline entry in the street-racing saga will hit theaters March 17, 2028. The film has received an official title as well: Fast Forever.
Franchise star and producer Vin Diesel also spread the news on Instagram.
“No one said the road would be easy… but it’s ours,” Diesel captioned a photo of himself and his late costar Paul Walker from the original 2001 film The Fast and the Furious. “One that has defined us and become our legacy…And a legacy… lasts Forever.”
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The movie will come almost five years after the previous entry, Fast X, hit theaters in May 2023, marking the longest gap between Fast films since the series launched.
Louis Leterrier, who took over at the helm of Fast X after franchise veteran Justin Lin exited the film a week into production, was previously announced to direct the next Fast film. Fast X and Fast Forever were originally envisioned as a two-part finale to the series, though it’s unclear if those plans remain in place, as Diesel previously said that the series may actually end with three final films instead of two.
Last year, Diesel told fans at FuelFest in Pomona, Calif., that Universal asked him if the Fast finale could be ready by April 2027, and he said he had three conditions to return to the franchise.
“First, is to bring the franchise back to L.A.! The second thing was to return to the car culture, to the street racing,” the actor said. ” The third thing was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner.”
That may prove difficult, as Brian was portrayed by the late Paul Walker, who died midway through production of Furious 7 in 2013. However, the franchise has repeatedly reiterated that Brian is canonically alive, and Brian’s last film appearance utilized Walker’s brothers as stand-ins, so there is precedent for the character appearing on screen despite of the actor’s untimely death.
Though no official casting decisions have been announced, it’s safe to assume that the majority of the Fast family who starred in Fast X will return for Fast Forever. The saga’s most recent film starred Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Michelle Rodriguez as Letty Ortiz, Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce, Ludacris as Tej Parker, Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey, Sung Kang as Han Lue, Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Jason Statham as Deckard Shaw, and Charlize Theron as Cipher, all of whom appeared in previous Fast films prior to X.
The film also introduced Jason Momoa as primary antagonist Dante Reyes, Daniela Melchior as Isabel Neves, Scott Eastwood as Little Nobody (a government official who worked under Kurt Russell’s Mr. Nobody from Furious 7), Alan Ritchson as Aimes, Brie Larson as Tess Petty, Rita Moreno as Dom’s abuelita, and Leo Abelo Perry as Dom’s son Little B.
Fast X‘s post-credits scenes also brought back Gal Gadot as Gisele Yashar, who was presumed dead after Fast & Furious 6, and Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs, who had not appeared in a mainline film since The Fate of the Furious due to a reported feud between the Moana star and Diesel, but headlined the 2019 spinoff Hobbs & Shaw.
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One character who seems unlikely to return is John Cena’s Jakob Toretto, whose arc seemingly concluded at the end of Fast X — though other characters have come back to the franchise after enduring worse, so anything is possible!