For a while there it looked like the Fast & Furious franchise might never get a final chapter but now it seems that the eleventh movie in the franchise (yes, I know it’s technically the 13th) is full speed ahead with star Vin Diesel sharing an update about the movie’s new writer.
Fast 11 was originally written byAaron Rabin and Zach Dean but now The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and Now You See Me 3’s Michael Lesslie has stepped up to bring the 25-year-old series to a close, with filming set to begin within the next 12 months.
Taking to social media, Diesel wrote: “25 years. Eight directors. Countless writers, crew members, performers, each one giving something real to a saga that has outlasted trends, cynics, and time itself. That doesn’t happen by accident…It happens because people show up and pour themselves into something bigger than any one individual.
Sitting across from Mike Leslie, hearing what he plans to contribute to the polish of the next chapter, that same feeling returned. A story with something real beating inside it.”
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On the weight of bringing such a big series to a close and, love it or loathe it, the franchise, which also has an animated series and several video games, is massive, with millions of fans across the globe, Diesel wrote: “There is a particular weight that comes with delivering a finale. A responsibility you feel in your chest, to everyone who gave something to get here, to the audience that stayed. You don’t take that lightly. You take it as fuel. And when you find out you’re going back to Los Angeles… back to the streets where it all began, something clicks into place. The city that made the first film feel alive, still here, still holding. Coming home to close it out right. That’s not logistics. That’s a gift.”
I really fell in love with the Fast & Furious franchise in the fourth movie and, while the last couple haven’t been great, I still have a lot of love for now massive this universe – this started as a movie about street racers and stolen DVD players! – has become, with super villains, CIA agents and rogue governments, it’s absolutely insane, and I will always tip my hat to that. It’s going to be interesting to see how it all wraps up.
Thoughts? I know you have them and I wanna hear ’em all.
Fast Forever will speed into cinemas on March 17th, 2028.
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