NBCUniversal has confirmed that a live-action TV series based on the Fast & Furious franchise is in development, and Vin Diesel is attached as an executive producer.
As reported by Deadline, sources confirmed that a Fast & Furious franchise is in development at Peacock, with multiple other projects related to the hit movie in development at Universal Television. “Peacock is launching four shows in the Fast and the Furious universe,” Diesel said during an appearance at the NBCUniversal presentation on Monday (May 11). The show that’s the furthest along in development will have a pilot written by Mike Daniels, who recently got another series, The Rockford Files, greenlit by NBCUniversal, and Wolfe Coleman.
Details regarding the TV show adaptation are currently under wraps, but Diesel hinted that the show could see fan-favorite characters involved.
“As you all know, we are very precious about these movies, but over the last decade, we’ve realized that the fans have wanted more; they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories,” he said. “And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.” He added that he was initially hesitant to bring the Fast franchise to TV, but warmed to the idea when Donna Langley took control of NBCUniversal’s TV projects. “That’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family will be protected in the TV space,” he said.
Diesel previously served as an executive producer on all six seasons of the Netflix animated series Fast & Furious Spy Racers, which concluded in 2021. The last movie in the franchise, 2023’s Fast X, ended on a dramatic cliffhanger that has yet to be resolved. The final entry is tentatively titled Fast Forever, although a finished script has yet to materialize. It’s currently expected to hit theaters in April 2027, however.
Last year, Diesel indicated that Paul Walker’s character Brian O’Conner could return in the next movie, despite the actor’s death in a car accident in 2013.
