‘Fast and Furious’ Spinoffs and Prequels Are in the Works

Vin Diesel, producer and star of Fast & Furious 8, first broke this news to Variety.

The future of FAST & FURIOUS is all going to come down to whether or not they can keep finding exciting and thrilling stories to tell that will keep audiences packing into the theaters. “It’s a very rich property and we’re committed to treating it with a lot of class”. With so many characters already introduced in this super-dense mythology, there’s plenty of room to branch out beyond the primary Fast storyline.

We’re surprised it took this long: Vin Diesel revealed today that Universal Pictures is hard at work on developing spin-offs and prequels to the highly lucrative Fast and Furious franchise, whose seventh installment – Furious 7 – grossed over $1.5 billion internationally this year.

“Recent reports stated that although Walker’s character Brian O’Connor was seen choosing a different life and parting ways with his friend Dominic Torreto, played by Vin Diesel, the makers of the movie are planning to bring back the character by including multiple flashback scenes through CGI and computer imagery”, said the report.

For now, though, they’re focused on making three more Fast & Furious movies.

Which characters? Since we don’t actually know, this seems like the time for rampant rumormongering.

Diesel didn’t offer any details on what characters will get movies of their own, but Variety speculates that Dwayne Johnson’s extremely muscular and frequently sweaty special agent Luke Hobbs would be a likely pick. The actor referenced the 2003 film he worked on with Gray, “A Man Apart” as an example of how gritty the sequel may go. The studio is looking to shape the emphasis away from gravity-defying vehicle races for this next ‘trilogy’.

“It’s at its peak now”.

We could, eventually, see more than another three films, however. “It’s new in China to them, it’s new in Russian Federation to them, it’s new in most of Latin America, so this is a series that’s accelerating in my view, not slowing down”.