A Fast & Furious TV series is in development at Peacock, with Vin Diesel announcing the franchise’s move into live-action television during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation in New York. The project is being developed by Universal Television, with Diesel set to executive produce.
Diesel appeared onstage alongside The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, telling attendees that fans have long wanted the franchise to explore more of its legacy characters and their stories. He also suggested that Peacock would be expanding the Fast & Furious universe with four shows, although reports have since clarified that only one series is currently confirmed as being in active development, with others said to be at different stages within Universal TV.
Plot details are being kept very tightly under wraps, which, honestly, feels pretty fitting for a franchise that can turn a street race into a global mission with the press of one very dramatic accelerator. What we do know is that Mike Daniels, whose credits include Sons of Anarchy, Shades of Blue and the upcoming Rockford Files reboot, will write the pilot with Wolfe Coleman, with both also serving as co-showrunners and executive producers.
Diesel is also executive producing through One Race alongside Sam Vincent, Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan. Morgan is already heavily tied to the franchise, having written several of the films, so there is at least some familiar engine power behind the wheel.
For fans, the move into live-action TV opens up a lot of possibilities. The Fast universe has always had a massive cast of characters, international locations, questionable physics and, most importantly, family. A series could give the franchise room to explore side characters, new crews, old grudges and the kind of emotional backstory that sometimes gets slightly drowned out by cars flying through buildings.
This would not be the first Fast & Furious TV project, as Netflix previously released the animated series Fast & Furious Spy Racers, which ran for six seasons between 2019 and 2021. The new Peacock project, however, would mark the franchise’s major live-action push into streaming television.
The announcement also arrives as the film franchise prepares to mark a major milestone. The original The Fast and the Furious, released in 2001, is set to receive a midnight screening at the Cannes Film Festival to celebrate its 25th anniversary, while the next film, Fast Forever, is currently dated for 17 March 2028.
The Fast & Furious franchise has now earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office across 11 films, making it one of Universal’s biggest and longest-running franchises.
For CultureCues, this one is very much a vroom vroom situation. A live-action Fast & Furious series could be full-throttle fun and a surprisingly strong expansion of the franchise, with Peacock opening the garage door on more of this universe in a way that is hard not to be excited about.
More details, including casting, plot and release timing, have yet to be announced.
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