Highlights
- Vin Diesel announced a “Fast & Furious” TV series at NBCUniversal’s upfront Monday.
- Diesel claimed four Peacock shows; insiders say only one is actively in development.
- Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will co-showrun and write the pilot.
Vin Diesel hit the stage at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation at Radio City Music Hall on Monday to drop the kind of bombshell that should have car-revving die-hards everywhere doing a celebratory burnout: a Fast & the Furious TV series is officially in the works at Peacock.
Standing alongside Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, the Dom Toretto himself, 58, told the room full of advertisers that the franchise is finally shifting gears into streaming after years of fans begging for it.
“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,” Diesel said.
“And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.”
Here’s where things get a little… messy. Diesel teased not one, not two, but FOUR shows from the Fast universe coming to the Peacock-branded streamer. “The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the Fast and Furious universe,” he declared.
Cool story — except a source inside Peacock told The Hollywood Reporter that only one Fast show is actually in active development, with the others reportedly puttering around in various stages of development at Universal Television. So, you know. Quarter mile at a time.
Diesel explained that he finally came around on the small-screen leap once Universal Studios chief Donna Langley also took oversight of NBCUniversal’s TV operation last year.
“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.
The lone confirmed Peacock TV series is being co-run by Mike Daniels (Sons of Anarchy, Shades of Blue, Rockford Files) and Wolfe Coleman (Shades of Blue), who serve as co-showrunners and executive producers in addition to writing the pilot. Diesel is executive producing through his One Race banner along with longtime franchise vets Neal Moritz, Chris Morgan, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Pavun Shetty.
Plot details? The show’s logline simply reads, “More to come…” Helpful!
The Fast empire is, of course, kind of a juggernaut — the films have amassed more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office, making it Universal’s most profitable and longest-running franchise. The 11th flick, Fast Forever, is screeching into theaters in 2028, and the original The Fast and the Furious turns 25 this year.
Buckle up, basically.
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