Vin Diesel revs his engine to race another quarter mile.
Universal has officially announced the release date for the next Fast and Furious movie (currently called Fast Forever) is March 17, 2028.
Franchise star and producer Diesel also shared the news on Instagram, posting a photo with the late Paul Walker from the original 2001 film Fast and Furious. Diesel captioned the post, saying, “No one said the road would be easy… but it is ours. What defined us and became our legacy… and the legacy… lasts forever.”
Over the past 25 years, the Fast & Furious movies have grossed a total of $7.3 billion, making them Universal’s most profitable and longest-running franchise (2015’s Fast & Furious 7 topped the box office with $1.5 billion worldwide, and 2023’s Fast X grossed $704 million). There are many others, including an animated series and a spin-off film, Hobbs & Shaw.
The Fast Forever update comes after months of speculation about when Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and his crew, including Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sang Kang and Jason Statham, will return to muscle cars after the explosive ending of Fast X.
The action-packed final minutes of 2023’s Fast The movie then cuts to black. Two credits scenes follow, teasing the surprising return of Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs and Gal Gadot’s Gisele.
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But “Fast” fans have been waiting to see what happens next since May 2023, and updates have been slow and frustrating. In fact, the five-year wait is the longest since the series began.
And there were some false starts along the way. Diesel initially announced that the next film was scheduled for April 2025, and then Leterrier said it would be released in 2026, but plans stalled while the studio and creatives (including producers Diesel and Neal Moritz) worked out the story and budget.
Last January, Diesel announced that the series, which has filmed in far-flung locations such as Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, London, Havana and Abu Dhabi, would be “returning home” to film in Los Angeles as a way to boost the local economy after the devastating wildfires. And in March, Diesel announced that he would be directing a sequel to his short film Los Bandoleros as a bridge between Fast X and the final film. In June, Diesel took to the stage at Fuel Fest, a car enthusiast event in Pomona, California, along with his Fast and Furious co-stars Tyrese Gibson and Cody Walker, to tease an April 2027 release date.
It’s been a long road, but things look set to be made official as Dom and his family cruise into the sunset in 2028.
