Vin Diesel has spent years insisting the “Fast & Furious” saga is really about family, and now the family may be expanding again—this time on television.
A live-action “Fast & Furious” series is officially in development at Peacock, bringing Universal’s long-running car-racing, heist, espionage, gravity-defying action franchise into the streaming space. Diesel announced the news Monday during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation, where he said the streamer would launch four shows set in the “Fast & Furious” universe. For now, though, only one series has been officially confirmed.
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Details on the show’s story are still under wraps, and Peacock has not announced which characters—if any—from the films could appear. But the project already has a few familiar franchise names attached. Diesel will executive produce through One Race alongside Sam Vincent, with longtime “Fast” producer Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film also serving as executive producers. Franchise veteran Chris Morgan, who wrote several installments in the film series, and Jeff Kirschenbaum are also attached as executive producers.
The pilot will be written by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Colman, the “Shades of Blue” veterans who are also set as showrunners. Universal Television is producing.
The move comes at a transitional moment for the franchise. “Fast X,” released in 2023, was positioned as the beginning of the end for the mainline saga, but the road to the next film has been unusually long. Universal has since dated “Fast Forever” for March 17, 2028, with that film expected to serve as the final chapter in the core series.
Diesel framed the television move as something fans have wanted for years, saying at the upfront that audiences had been asking for expanded stories around the franchise’s legacy characters. He also credited Donna Langley’s expanded oversight at Universal as one reason he felt the move into television could happen without diluting the series’ identity.
For Peacock, the project makes plenty of sense. The streamer has been pushing harder into recognizable IP, and “Fast & Furious” remains one of Universal’s most valuable brands. Across 11 films, including spinoffs, the franchise has grossed more than $7 billion worldwide. It has also proven unusually elastic, mutating from the street-racing crime drama of “The Fast and the Furious” into a global action machine involving spies, mercenaries, family reunions, retconned deaths, and the occasional trip into space.
The television move is not entirely without precedent. The franchise previously spawned the animated Netflix series “Fast & Furious Spy Racers,” but a live-action Peacock series would mark a different kind of expansion—one that could, in theory, explore supporting characters, new crews, or corners of the “Fast” world that the films have only skimmed.
Still, the current uncertainty around Diesel’s “four shows” comment is worth noting. One series is moving forward. The broader plan may exist, but Universal has not publicly detailed the other three projects, nor has Peacock announced release timing, casting, or a production start. And let’s face it, Diesel is big on big pronouncements, which may or may not be true.
Regardless, that ambiguity fits the franchise’s current moment. “Fast & Furious” is racing toward a promised theatrical finale, but Universal is clearly not ready to park one of its biggest engines. Whether the Peacock series becomes a side road, a bridge to “Fast Forever,” or the start of a new television lane for the brand, the message is obvious enough: Dom Toretto’s world may be ending on the big screen, but Universal is already looking for ways to keep the garage open.
