Vin Diesel Confirms That “Fast & Furious” Franchise Will End in 2024

You’ve just time-travelled to the year 2065.

It’s much warmer, and everyone’s still wearing a face mask and drinking bubble tea. You then discover that scientists have just created a vaccine for Bovis-48, another infectious virus, but one that makes you hungrier the more you eat.

After you get bored of the new world, you head to a futuristic-looking movie theatre to catch what you believe should be the 45th edition of the Fast & Furious franchise.

But it doesn’t exist, as it ended about 40 years earlier.

Vin Diesel Confirms That “Fast & Furious” Franchise Will End in 2024

Bad news for Fast & Furious fans: its leading star Vin Diesel has confirmed that the franchise will end in 2024.

The 9th instalment of the popular movie franchise will be followed by a two-part finale that will be the film’s last.

For Diesel, it isn’t only his fans who are disappointed.

“I gotta admit I’m a bit apprehensive to say it, ’cause I told my daughter than Ten: Part 1 and Ten Part 2: would be the last ones and she started crying, so now I’m nervous about saying it,” he said in a promotional interview.

It seems that Diesel, who has played Dominic Toretto since the first film in 2001, is the one who made the tough decision.

Speaking about the finale, Director Justin Lin said:  “We got together and Vin says ’I think we should think about closing up the saga now’.”

Lin has directed five of the Fast & Furious movies, and will direct the final two instalments as well.

Won’t Be the End of the Fast Universe

It’s not all bad though.

Diesel said that while this will be the end of the Fast & Furious franchise, it won’t be the end of the Fast universe.

“In other words, it will live on via its spin-offs like Hobbs & Shaw,”, he explained.

Hobbs and Shaw was a 2019 Fast & Furious spin-off that starred Dwayne Johnson and Idris Elba.

Postponed for 2 Years

Believe it or not, F9 – the latest instalment of the franchise – was supposed to premiere on 19 April 2019 in the US.

The release date was then pushed back to 10 April 2020, and then again to 22 May 2020. 

Then, the coronavirus made a guest appearance in the reality show we call life, and the movie was postponed yet again till June this year.

Here in Singapore, it’s expected to hit theatres on 24 June.

Lin described the film as the “first film of the final chapter.”

“We’re kind of reconfiguring everything, so that the next two movies should wrap up this amazing journey for these characters,” he added.

The latest installment will feature the same beloved stars, with guest appearances from Dame Helen Mirren and Cardi B as well. 

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