The Fast & Furious saga finally has a production target for its last mainline chapter. Vin Diesel says Fast Forever is expected to begin filming in December, provided he can fulfill the studio’s request, according to Variety.
Diesel shared the update at a 25th anniversary screening of The Fast and the Furious. He also offered an unusually emotional glimpse at the road to the finale, saying the project went through four sets of writers and four years of development before reaching a script he believed was worthy of ending the story.
That reaction was not exactly low-key. Diesel told the audience that reading the latest draft brought him to tears, describing the response as building from a single tear halfway through the script to full-on crying by the end. He also said his sister told him, “No more crying, bro,” adding that even the toughest people sometimes need to let the tears run.
For fans, the December target matters because Fast Forever is not being positioned as just another pit stop in the franchise. Variety identifies it as the 11th and final mainline Fast film, with a theatrical release set for March 17, 2028. That gives the long-running series a substantial runway between the reported start of filming and its planned arrival in theaters.
There is still one notable piece of uncertainty behind the scenes. Director Louis Leterrier recently told Polygon that he had not yet read the script, though he indicated that the movie would have an ending and expressed affection for Diesel and Universal. Diesel, meanwhile, appears confident in the draft after the lengthy development process.
The stakes are considerable. The Fast & Furious films have earned a combined $7.3 billion worldwide, making the series Universal’s longest-running and most profitable franchise, according to Variety. Now the question is whether Fast Forever can turn all that development time, script surgery and Diesel’s emotional response into a finale that gives the family a finish worth flooring the accelerator for.
Source: variety.com
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