While prestige dramas dominate the various streaming platforms, Peacock is preparing to bring back “family” television.
The streamer has greenlit its first live-action television series based on Universal’s long-running Fast & Furious franchise, moving the project beyond the development stage and toward a planned 2028 premiere.
Vin Diesel as Dom Toretto – The Fast Saga, YouTube
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According to Deadline, Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will write the series and serve as co-showrunners. Vin Diesel will executive produce alongside One Race’s Sam Vincent, Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and longtime Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan.
Universal Television will produce the currently untitled series.
The greenlight represents a significant step forward from where the project stood earlier this year.
Peacock Finally Gives Fast & Furious the Green Light
As That Park Place reported in May, Diesel first announced plans to bring Fast & Furious to Peacock during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation in New York.
At the time, however, the streamer had only ordered a pilot, meaning there was no guarantee that the project would ultimately become a series.
That has now changed.
The Fast and Furious Family – The Fast Saga, YouTube
Peacock is reportedly targeting a 2028 premiere, which would put the television series in the same year as Fast Forever. The supposedly final installment of the main film series is currently scheduled to arrive in theaters on March 17, 2028.
Plot and casting details for the television project remain under wraps. It is also unclear whether Diesel will actually appear as Dominic Toretto or remain behind the scenes as an executive producer.
When Diesel originally announced the project, he said television would provide an opportunity to expand the stories of the franchise’s legacy characters.
“For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more,” Diesel said in May. “They wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories.”
What Happened to the Other Fast & Furious Shows?
Diesel caused some confusion during the upfront presentation when he announced that Peacock was “launching four shows” set within the Fast & Furious universe.
However, reports at the time clarified that only one project was actively moving forward. Deadline now reports that the other three projects remain in the works, with writers including Nick Wootton, Charmaine DeGraté, Ingrid Escajeda, and Joe Henderson attached.
For now, only the Daniels and Coleman series has received an official greenlight.
Scene from The Fast and the Furious – The Fast Saga, YouTube
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The move comes as Universal celebrates the 25th anniversary of The Fast and the Furious. Since the original movie arrived in 2001, the franchise has generated more than $7 billion worldwide while transforming from a relatively grounded street-racing series into a globe-spanning action spectacle.
This also won’t technically be the franchise’s first trip to television. Netflix previously released six seasons of the animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers between 2019 and 2021. However, Peacock’s project will mark the franchise’s first scripted live-action television series.
Can Fast & Furious Find New Life on Television?
The theatrical franchise has admittedly lost some of the box-office horsepower it once enjoyed when its biggest installments competed with superhero blockbusters. Moving into live-action television could therefore provide the jolt of NOS the series needs as Universal considers what comes after the main saga.
With Fast Forever supposedly bringing Dominic Toretto’s theatrical story to an end in 2028, Universal clearly isn’t preparing to park one of its biggest franchises.
The movies may be approaching the finish line, but if Fast & Furious has taught audiences anything over the past 25 years, it’s that you don’t turn your back on family.
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