Vin Diesel seems to be having a rough Thanksgiving.
The actor took to Instagram to let us know that his holiday wasn’t filled with coronas at the backyard barbecue, and that he’s instead pondering the fate of his ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise.
On Thursday morning, Diesel gave an update on “Fast X: Part 2.” There’s been very little news about the status of the sequel since ‘Fast X’ opened in theaters in May 2023, and ended on a cliffhanger. It didn’t help that co-star Tyrese Gibson recently pondered whether the film would ever get made.
Suffice to say, Diesel’s Instagram did not have any positive holiday vibes. He seems to be in over his head, and wondering what the f*ck is going on??!
I got universal in one ear saying we need FastX2 by March 2026!
I have Concast in the other ear saying we need two movies to be the Finale!
Then the writer on Fast Five sent me this image and said we need to see DOM and HOBBS resolve their differences.
I just want to get back to real street racing, practical stunts… and a reunion of that beautiful brotherhood.Happy Thanksgiving…
Did he purposely misspell Comcast? Lol.
Earlier in the year, Diesel had confirmed, via his Instagram, that the next one would be the final ‘Fast & Furious’ movie. Diesel was calling it the “grand finale.” Now he’s saying that Universal wants, at least, two more instalments released.
Back in May, ‘Fast X’ director Louis Leterrier confirmed a 2026 release for the next film, and that they would start production in “early 2025.”
It's filming early next year, and it's coming out in 2026, which will be exactly to the day, 25 years since the first one came out.
Have plans changed? Delays? Rewrites? Surely a good sign that they have a movie due for release 16 months from now, and they can't decide whether they're wrapping things up with one or three movies.
There have been multiple attempts at cracking the script for this next film, with, at least, three writers having already been hired. The original April 4th, 2025, release date was also pushed back, and it’s now, apparently, March 2026.
If you remember, Jeff Sneider, via his newsletter, was saying that Universal would be going back to basics with ‘Fast X: Part Two.’ Sneider indicated that the studio was aiming to go “lean and mean” with this eleventh film in the series in an attempt to cut spending that saw the production of “Fast X” inflate to a ridiculously overindulgent $340M budget. “Fast X” pulled in $714.5M worldwide — the previous two had earned over one billion dollars each at the box office.
Diesel recently wrapped production on “Riddick: Furya” where he’s set to reprise his titular role as the 28th century antihero. This will be the fourth ‘Riddick’ movie, following 2000’s “Pitch Black,” 2004’s “The Chronicles of Riddick” and 2013’s “Riddick.”
