The Fast & Furious franchise is officially moving into live-action television, and not just with one show.
Vin Diesel took the stage Monday at the NBCUniversal Upfront presentation in New York alongside Jimmy Fallon and made the announcement: four Fast & Furious shows are in the works at Peacock.
“Peacock is launching four shows in the Fast and the Furious universe,” Diesel said.
While Diesel stated that four separate TV projects are being developed within the Fast & Furious universe, sources familiar with the situation clarified that only one live-action series is currently officially set up at Peacock, with additional projects still in early development across Universal Television.
Diesel is attached as executive producer across the franchise expansion, producing via his One Race banner alongside Sam Vincent.
For the confirmed Peacock series, Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, the team behind Shades of Blue, are co-showrunners and wrote the pilot. Franchise producer Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film are also on board as executive producers, alongside franchise veterans Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan. Universal Television produces. Plot details are being kept under wraps.
Diesel said he held off on television for years out of protectiveness over the brand, the same instinct that made him initially turn down a sequel to the first film. What changed was Donna Langley taking oversight of NBCUniversal’s television operation alongside Universal Pictures.
“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. 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.”
This would not be the first Fast & Furious TV project. Netflix aired the animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers for six seasons between 2019 and 2021. This marks the franchise’s first live-action television venture.
The franchise turns 25 this year, with a special screening of the original film at Cannes on May 13. Eleven films in and over $7 billion at the worldwide box office, the final theatrical chapter Fast Forever is set for March 17, 2028.
The TV era is just getting started.
Originally read on Deadline.