With F9 now out, here's everything we know about Fast & Furious 10. The car-centric series has come a long way from its street-racing roots when it debuted in 2001 with Rob Cohen’s The Fast and the Furious. Two decades after, it has become a fully-fledged multi-media action-adventure franchise with a legion of fans all over the world.
Over the course of the past 20 years, the Fast and Furious
franchise has transformed itself from a movie about street racing and boosting
DVD players to one of today’s most profitable and off-the-walls cinematic
experiences with a slew of sequels, spinoffs, television shows, video games and
more. With the arrival of F9, you can’t blame us for wondering what is to come
next for Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and crew in Fast And Furious 10.
And while we don’t yet know how things are going to shake
out for the band of the DVD player boosters-turned-super spies in the ninth
installment in the Fast and Furious franchise, there is already a vault of
information about director Justin Lin's upcoming Fast And Furious 10.
The culmination of the Fast Saga begins with F9; director
Justin Lin returns to helm the project, years after exiting it. Aside from
Dominic Toretto and his team going up against his estranged brother, Jakob, who
is backed by Fate of the Furious villain Cipher, it also sees the return of Han
Lue. The long-time member of "La Familia" was deemed dead after his
fatal car crash at the end of Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift; now that he's
back, the quest for justice regarding what happened to him is on. Beyond that,
Lin is also tipped to spearhead the next two installments of the franchise
starting with Fast & Furious 10.
As the costly F9 officially kicks off The Fast Saga's final
trilogy, all eyes are now on its direct sequel and the adventure it brings for
Dom and his crew. Here's everything we know about Fast And Furious 10 thus far. If we were living in an
alternate reality, one that wasn't affected by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,
we would have already seen Fast And Furious 10 in theaters by now, and would be
talking about all the ways to watch it streaming instead of quick things to
know about its release. Unfortunately, this is the hand we have been dealt and
all we can do is take life one quarter-mile at a time.
That being said, Fast And Furious 10 was originally slated
to be released April 2, 2021, but when F9 was delayed in early 2020, pushing
back its release several times before Universal ultimately settled on June 25,
2021, the franchise’s 10th installment was not only pushed back but taken off
the release schedule entirely. As it stands, no new release date has been set,
but I’m sure we’ll know in due time.
Initially, F9 was set to hit theaters in April 2020, but due
to the coronavirus pandemic, it was pushed to a June 2021 debut. This created a
domino effect in The Fast Saga's current slate. Fast And Furious 10, which should've been already out now
had it not been for the global health crisis, was slated for an April 2021
roll-out but has now been delayed indefinitely. While there's no release date
has been confirmed for Fast & Furious 10, it has been confirmed by
franchise star Tyrese Gibson, who plays driver Roman Pearce, that it will shoot
back-to-back with Fast & Furious 11. Production kicks off in 2022, and Universal's
previous release pattern indicates the earliest possible premiere could be the
summer of 2023.
With only two films left in The Fast Saga, Fast &
Furious 10 will more likely see the return of its primary cast, headed by Vin
Diesel. It's worth noting that there's no official cast list has been released
for the film, but Cardi-B's F9 character is also confirmed for Fast &
Furious 10. On the side of the villains, big bad Cipher (Charlize Theron) and
Jakob could also factor. Finally, as the Fast & Furious franchise
culminates, there's a good chance that Luke Hobbs (Vin Diesel) and Deckard Shaw
(Jason Statham) could see themselves back in the mainline of movies.
It is hard to say exactly how the ever-expanding Fast and
Furious family will fit into the series’ 10th installment just yet but we do
know that most of the major players introduced over the years will be back for
exhilarating and one logic-defying car chase after another. When plans of the
property’s future were revealed in October 2020, Deadline reported that not
only would Vin Diesel be returning as patriarch (and Corona enthusiast) Dominic
Toretto, but Michelle Rodriguez’ Letty Ortiz, Tyrese Gibson’s Roman Pearce,
Chris “Ludacris” Bridges’ Tej Parker, Jordana Brewster’s Mia Toretto, Nathalie
Emmanuel’s Ramsey, and Sung Kang’s Han Lue would all be back for another round
of heart-stopping action as well.
Aside from being the middle installment of The Fast Saga's
last trilogy, Fast And Furious 10 could be the first half of a two-part
finale. The franchise was tipped to wrap up with its 10th installment, but
Diesel and Universal mined inspiration from Marvel Studios and split its
send-off narrative. For Fast & Furious 10, there are rumblings about the
series going all out as it goes into space. This is subtly teased in F9 with
Roman and Tej's rocket car. Aside from that, there's also the ongoing crusade
with regard to delivering justice for what happened to Han — something that's
one of the main motivating factors about why Lin wanted to return to The Fast
Saga.
During a June 2021 interview with EW, Vin Diesel revealed that franchise newcomer Cardi B will be returning as Leysa in Fast And Furious 10, this time with a more expanded role. There haven’t been any other confirmations for the Fast And Furious 10 cast at this time, but Diesel did say nothing has been ruled out when asked if Paul Walker’s daughter, Meadow, would be joining the franchise during a separate interview with E! News.
Upon its release, Fast And Furious 10 will be a part of something much larger
than one supersized action-adventure film; in fact, it will be the first
chapter in a two-part finale for a franchise that kicked off 20 years ago. When
news first surfaced that Universal Pictures was planning to complete the Fast
and Furious franchise (at least the mainline series) in the very near future,
Deadline reported that instead of taking a traditional sequel model for the
final two installments, longtime franchise director Justin Lin would tell one
big story over two movies, starting with Fast And Furious 10.
No one attached to the project has revealed what exactly
will go down in Fast And Furious 10 or if the 11th movie installment in the
franchise (12th movie overall if you include Hobbs and Shaw) will even be
called Fast and Furious 11, but the idea of having something akin to Avengers:
Infinity War and Endgame in the “Fast Saga” sounds amazing.
It is hard to say exactly when Fast And Furious 10 will land in theaters, and that became
even more apparent in April 2021 when director Justin Lin told Variety he
didn’t anticipate starting up production in 2021, making it at least 2022
before cameras start rolling on the beginning of the end for the “Fast Saga.”
It’s not all bad news with the Fast and Furious 10 production as Justin Lin
revealed he and the other parts of the brain trust behind the movie are on the
“right track” with the film’s development at this point.
It doesn’t look like the powers that be plan on wasting any time as Fast And Furious 10 and F11 will be shot back-to-back. In a June 2021 interview with Collider, Tyrese Gibson confirmed that even though he didn’t know when the cast and crew would get back together to kick off the final two installments in the mainline series, they will get both in the can in one swoop. Gibson, who joined the Fast and Furious family with 2003’s 2 Fast 2 Furious, also made it seem like this would be another globe-trotting adventure, hinting at multiple continents being included.
Will The Rock And Jason Statham Return For Fast And Furious 10?
Unless Justin Lin has been able to pull off a miracle and
prevent word from getting out about Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham being in
F9, it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing Luke Hobbs or Deckard Shaw go
toe-to-toe with Jakob Toretto or Cipher (Charlize Theron) in the June 2021 action
flick. That doesn’t mean we have seen the last of the two characters in the
mainline Fast and Furious movies, which is something Lin touched on when
speaking with CinemaBlend’s ReelBlend podcast in June 2021:
I think that’s always been our approach. … So many of the
conversations I have is about characters that are not even in there, but are
still, obviously, they are living and breathing in this universe. On this one,
when I came back, I was thinking a lot about Hobbs and Shaw, and all of the
other characters. I never think of them as being gone, for sure.
There has been a great deal of speculation surrounding the possible return of both actors with Fast And Furious 10 with Jason Statham
going as far to say he’d love to join the “Merry Men and Ladies” of the crew,
especially director Justin Lin. There has also been buzz surrounding Dwayne
Johnson’s return ever since January 2021 when Vin Diesel shared an image of Dom
Toretto and Luke Hobbs with a caption saying he was “excited for what’s
coming.”
Fast And Furious 10 Won’t Be The Last Movie In The Fast And
Furious Franchise
Even though the mainline Fast and Furious story will be
coming to a close following the release of the 10th and 11th films in the
franchise, this doesn’t mean the universe that has been created and built up
over the course of the past 20 years is going anywhere anytime soon. In fact,
there are multiple spinoff movies in the works at this time.
First, there’s the follow-up to the successful Hobbs and
Shaw, which brought in $759 million worldwide in 2019, per Box Office Mojo. And
while it appears we’re still some time out before we see the odd couple of the
action genre return for Hobbs and Shaw 2, a sequel has been in the works going
back to March 2020. Then there is the long-in-the-works female-led Fast and
Furious spinoff, which admittedly sounds like the right call considering all of
the great female characters introduced over the years.
When addressing the future of the Fast and Furious franchise
during an June 2021 interview with Vulture, Vin Diesel touched on a potential
story that has reportedly been discussed as far back as 2009’s Fast and
Furious, but stopped short of saying if that story would be a prequel of
spinoff, only saying:
I will say that there is nothing that is off the table.
No matter which direction the franchise takes if the Fast
and Furious movies continue following the upcoming final chapters of the
mainline series, everyone agrees on what any potential spinoff should be about.
Tyrese Gibson And Ludacris Want To Take Fast And Furious 10 To Africa
Nothing has been revealed about any of the locations that
will be featured in Fast and Furious 10, but if two of the most tenured members
of the Fast and Furious family know where they want to take the franchise.
During a June 2021 interview with SiriusXM, Tyrese Gibson revealed that he and
Ludacris, who appears as tech-whiz Tej Parker, want to take the franchise to a
certain African nation, stating:
I think me and Luda’s always had this idea, think it’s time
for us to head to Africa. South Africa needs some love, some real estate and be
in on this franchise. It could be really amazing to figure out something that
we can do in South Africa. Cape Town, just somewhere that’s just got one of
those beautiful skylines with ocean. Just the Fast and Furious package.
Later on in the interview, Tyrese Gibson explained how going
to Brazil in Fast Five felt like a homecoming for co-star Jordana Brewster and
that he thought it would be amazing to do something like that in South Africa.
We will have to see about the Hobbs and Shaw sequel and
potentially great female-led spinoff movie once we know how Universal Pictures
plans on approaching the Fast and Furious franchise as production on Fast And Furious 10 begins to gear up at some point in the near future. In the meantime,
now is the perfect time to go back and watch all the Fast and Furious movies
streaming. And don’t forget to check out the latest information about the
release of F9 and all those upcoming Marvel movies on CinemaBlend’s 2021 movie
schedule while you’re at it.
