UPDATED: A “Fast & Furious” TV series is officially in the works at Peacock.
The announcement was made onstage by franchise star Vin Diesel at the NBCUniversal upfront presentation in New York on Monday alongside “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon.
“For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more,” Diesel said. “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 that Fallon has mastered. And I had to wait till it was right… It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all, because that’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family would be protected in the TV space… The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the ‘Fast and Furious’ universe.”
While Diesel said that four shows were in the works, an individual with knowledge of the situation confirmed it is, in fact, only one. Others are said to be in various stages of development at Universal TV.
Plot details for the show are being kept under wraps, but Diesel promised the show would honor the legacy of the films.
Mike Daniels (“Sons of Anarchy,” “Shades of Blue,” “Rockford Files”) and Wolfe Coleman (“Shades of Blue”) serve as co-showrunners and executive producers in addition to writing the pilot. Diesel will executive produce along with Sam Vincent via One Race. Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film also executive produce along with Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan. Universal Television will produce.
Should the Peacock series go forward, it would not be the first “Fast & Furious” TV show. Netflix previously aired the animated series “Fast & Furious Spy Racers” for six seasons between 2019 and 2021.
There have been 11 films in the “Fast & Furious” franchise to date, with “Fast Forever” set to release in 2028. Collectively, they have earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office. The first “The Fast and the Furious” film was released by Universal Pictures in 2001. The film is set to be feted with a midnight screening at the Cannes Film Festival on May 13 to celebrate the film’s 25th anniversary.
