{"id":573164,"date":"2026-08-18T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573164\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:52:08","slug":"vin-diesel-has-some-big-fast-forever-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/573164\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel Has Some Big ‘Fast Forever’ Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fast Forever sure is taking forever. The 11th, and final, film in the mainline<\/a> Fast and Furious franchise was expected to come right on the heels of the 2023 film Fast X<\/a>. But, for several reasons, that didn\u2019t happen<\/a>, and now it\u2019s been three years and counting without a frame of footage being shot. (Star Vin Diesel did shoot a World Cup commercial<\/a> that looked like it was Fast Forever, but it was not Fast Forever.)<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s going on? Well, in Los Angeles Monday night, Universal threw a big 25th anniversary party for The Fast and the Furious ahead of its theatrical re-release this weekend. Diesel was there, of course, along with co-stars such as Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, and others. Speaking to Variety<\/a> on the red carpet, Diesel said he\u2019s hoping to start filming Fast Forever in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe start shooting in December, if I can make good on the request from the studio,\u201d Diesel said. \u201cI\u2019m in a good place, though. I had to go through four sets of writers, four years of development, to get to something that I felt would be worthy of a finale. And when I read the script a couple of weeks ago, [I cried].\u201d<\/p>\n

Diesel has mentioned crying over the script before, but this is the first time fans are hearing about the four different sets of writers who tackled the subject. That surely explains the delay, but also feels very odd. Did the team developing Fast X not have an idea of what would happen next when they killed John Cena\u2019s character and put Vin Diesel\u2019s Dom and his son at the bottom of an exploding dam? Was there not a plan? How did it take four different sets of writers to flesh out a story that clearly should have been in place already?<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know. However, we\u2019d like to think that there was a plan, but after the film\u2019s release, Diesel and the team just decided to make it even better. And, if that\u2019s the case, apparently they succeeded. \u201cI\u2019m going to tell you something personal,\u201d Diesel said to fans in the theater. \u201cIt was after four different writers, four years of development, and after I read the script, halfway through, one tear. By the end of the script that we crafted and worked so hard to make right for you after four years, I was crying. I couldn\u2019t hold it back, and I had to tell everyone. And my sister said, \u2018No more crying, bro.\u2019 So I just want to say that sometimes, even the toughest guys in the world need to cry.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll cry if this movie actually A) ends up happening on schedule and B) comes halfway to delivering what it has promised.<\/p>\n

Fast Forever, directed by Louis Leterrier<\/a>, is scheduled for release on March 17, 2028.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fast Forever sure is taking forever. The 11th, and final, film in the mainline Fast and Furious franchise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,181167,111,139,69,10320],"class_list":["post-573164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-fast-forever","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-vin-diesel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}