The final Fast and Furious movie is not racing to theaters, but at least now we know it’s coming. Universal just announced that the 11th movie in the franchise, titled Fast Forever, will be in theaters on March 17, 2028. It’ll be five years between this title and the previous iteration, Fast X.
The press release says nothing more beyond that, like which stars are returning or who is directing, writing, or anything. But the assumption is that Louis Leterrier, who completed Fast X when Justin Lin left the project, will return to finish the story, and all the main players—Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese, Ludacris, and even Dwayne Johnson and Gal Gadot—will be returning.
Late last year, Diesel went to an event and announced that the 11th film (or 12th if you count Hobbs and Shaw) would be coming in 2027. However, there had been no updates since then, and, clearly, for a movie of this size and scope to be ready in a year, the ball would have to be rolling by now for that to happen. Hence the year delay.
Why that delay? Well, how much time do you have? Reports of issues during the production of Fast X have been ongoing. The fact that the film didn’t live up to expectations, either from fans or at the box office, almost certainly made everyone involved step back and look at the next installment. Fast and Furious movies are expensive, and if you’re going to make one, it had better make a lot of money. Fast X didn’t.
As for what could happen in the film, that’s the other issue. The previous one left us with at least four cliffhangers. Diesel’s character, Dom, was at the bottom of a collapsing dam with his son. Several of his friends had just been in a plane crash. The Rock’s character, Hobbs, had apparently returned, as had Gal Gadot’s character, Gisele.
How all those things are going to come together to wrap up the story, while also bringing back Paul Walker’s character in some way, and be more about Los Angeles-based street racing (as Diesel has teased), seems damn near impossible. But it will have taken five years for the team to figure it out.
Diesel made the news official on his Instagram.
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