{"id":549337,"date":"2026-03-20T16:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:31:08","slug":"vin-diesels-last-fast-furious-movie-gets-major-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/549337\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel\u2019s Last Fast &#038; Furious Movie Gets Major Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/vin-diesel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vin Diesel<\/a> has shared a major update on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/fast-forever\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fast Forever<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/comingsoon.net\/tag\/fast-&amp;-furious-11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">11th and final movie<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/fast-furious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fast &amp; Furious <\/a>franchise.<\/p>\n<p>What is the Fast Forever update?<\/p>\n<p>On Instagram, Diesel revealed that Fast Forever has tapped <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/michael-lesslie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Michael Lesslie<\/a> to pen the script. Diesel shared a black-and-white photo of himself conversing with Lesslie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c25 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\u2019t happen by accident\u2026It happens because people show up and pour themselves into something bigger than any one individual,\u201d Diesel wrote. \u201cSitting across from Mike Leslie [sic], 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/fast-forever-michael-lesslie-screenwriter-hunger-games-1236694603\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Variety<\/a>, Lesslie is rewriting a script previously written by Aaron Rabin and Zach Dean.<\/p>\n<p>Lesslie has been in high demand as a screenwriter. He wrote the screenplays for 2025\u2019s Now You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t and 2023\u2019s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &amp; Snakes. The British screenwriter has also been reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/movies\/news\/1730391-x-men-mcu-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">tapped to write Marvel\u2019s live-action X-Men reboot.  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fast Forever is set to be the finale for Diesel\u2019s Dom Toretto in the Fast &amp; Furious franchise. Louis Leterrier, who helmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/fast-x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Fast X<\/a>, is still attached to direct. Fast Forever likely picks up in the aftermath of Fast X, which ended with Dom and his son (Leo Abelo Perry) trying to escape from a trap created by Dante (Jason Momoa).<\/p>\n<p>The Fast &amp; Furious franchise dates back to 2001\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/the-fast-and-the-furious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Fast and the Furious<\/a>. The racing franchise features 10 movies on the main timeline and one spin-off, Hobbs &amp; Shaw. The 11 movies have grossed over $7.4 billion at the worldwide box office. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comingsoon.net\/tag\/universal-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Universal Pictures<\/a> has dated Fast Forever for March 17, 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel has shared a major update on Fast Forever, the 11th and final movie in the Fast&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,138084,213703,183346,199547,2015,337,71038],"class_list":["post-549337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-fast-furious","tag-fast-furious-11","tag-fast-forever","tag-michael-lesslie","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-vin-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}