Peacock has officially ordered a live-action “Fast & Furious” series, and the streamer is aiming to launch it in 2028. The order became official on Thursday, October 1st, five months after Vin Diesel first talked up the project on stage at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation. The timing of the premiere is not an accident. Peacock wants the show out in the same year as the next movie. “Fast Forever” is set to hit theaters on March 17th, 2028.
What Peacock has not announced is almost everything else. There is no title, no cast, no episode count and no plot description beyond the fact that the show is based on the movies. The Hollywood Reporter says “all other details, including the show’s potential title, are being kept under wraps for the time being.” What does exist is a creative team, and it is a serious one. Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will write the pilot and run the show together, and the people who have produced and written the films for years are on board as executive producers. Warning beyond this point there are spoilers for the “Fast & Furious” franchise and its plans for television.
Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will write the pilot and run the show together, and the people who have produced and written the films for years are on board as executive producers.”
Daniels and Coleman come from television drama rather than blockbuster filmmaking. Daniels has credits on “Sons of Anarchy” and “Shades of Blue”, and he is also attached to NBC’s upcoming remake of “The Rockford Files”. Coleman’s credits include “Shades of Blue” and “9-1-1: Lone Star”. The two share that “Shades of Blue” credit and have worked on the same show before. Both will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers. That is a sensible hire for a series that has to fill hours of story, which is a very different job from staging a two-hour stunt movie.
The producer list is where the show ties itself to the movies. Diesel is an executive producer alongside Sam Vincent of One Race, his production company. Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film are producing too, and Moritz and Original Film also produce the film franchise. Jeff Kirschenbaum is on the list, and so is Chris Morgan through Chris Morgan Productions, and Morgan has long been the key screenwriter of the movies. Universal Television is the studio behind the series as a division of Universal Studio Group.
That lineup matters for continuity. A spin-off made by strangers can drift away from the films and quietly contradict them. This one is being produced by the same people who shape the movies, with longtime franchise screenwriter Chris Morgan among them. Fans who care about how the pieces fit together should take that as a good sign. It does not guarantee the show will line up with every film, but it gives it a real chance to.
Diesel first revealed the project at that upfront presentation in May, and he framed it as an answer to the audience. “For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more,” he said. “They wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories.” He said he had waited until the timing felt right. “It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all, because that’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family would be protected in the TV space,” he told the room.
Then he went bigger with a promise Peacock has not backed up. “The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the ‘Fast and Furious’ universe,” Diesel said, as quoted by Variety. That is not what Peacock has ordered. The Hollywood Reporter notes that Peacock later clarified that just one show was actively being developed. As of this week exactly one series has an order. Treat the other three as Diesel’s ambition from a stage in May, not as shows on a schedule.
The biggest open question is who will actually be on screen. Diesel’s role, as described by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter, is executive producer. Neither outlet says he will act in the series, and no actor from the films has been announced either. Diesel’s own words in May pointed straight at “the legacy characters”, so fans will expect familiar faces. Peacock has not promised a single one, and until it does nobody should assume Dominic Toretto is walking into this show.
Those characters go back a long way. “The Fast and the Furious” opened in June 2001, which makes 2026 the franchise’s 25th anniversary. The first film starred Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), Mia (Jordana Brewster) and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez). The Hollywood Reporter counts 11 movies over those 25 years. Together they have earned more than $7 billion at the worldwide box office. Very few franchises reach that far, and a streamer would be foolish not to try to turn it into weekly viewing.
This is not the franchise’s first trip to television. Netflix aired the animated “Fast & Furious Spy Racers” for six seasons between 2019 and 2021. That cartoon has no connection to the new live-action Peacock project beyond sharing the franchise name. A live-action series is a different bet. It needs a cast, stunt driving and a budget that can make the action land on a smaller screen. Peacock has not said how big that budget will be or how many episodes it is paying for.
The 2028 target is the part to watch. Variety reports that Peacock wants the series to coincide with “Fast Forever” in theaters, but no month has been named and the year is a target rather than a locked date. The order of release changes what the show can do. A premiere before March 17th, 2028 would let the series set up the film. A premiere after it would let the series pick up the pieces. Peacock has not said which way it is leaning, and that choice will tell fans a lot about how tightly the show is tied to the movies.
The whole project stays inside one company. Diesel announced it at NBCUniversal’s upfront, Universal Television is the studio and Peacock is the home. It also was not Peacock’s only news that day. The Hollywood Reporter says the streamer is developing a drama called “The Chairman” from “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner, starring Eddie Murphy. It would be Murphy’s first ongoing series role since he left “Saturday Night Live” in 1984. Peacock is clearly chasing big names, and few names Universal owns are bigger than “Fast & Furious”.
The honest size of this story is smaller than the headline. A series order is real, and so are the showrunners and the year. But there is no title, no logline, no cast and no trailer. The next announcements are the ones that will decide whether this is a true part of the saga or a show that just borrows the name. A title will come first, but casting will matter far more, and the question of whether Diesel steps in front of the camera will matter most of all.
For now Peacock has the pieces it needs to start. It has two showrunners writing a pilot, the film franchise’s own producers behind them and a release year tied to the next movie. Diesel spent his May speech talking about family, and that word has carried this franchise for 25 years. A television version will have to earn it with characters fans care about. Peacock has until 2028 to show it can.
What Do You Think? Should the series bring back Dom and the original crew, or build a new family from scratch? Should it land before “Fast Forever” or after it? And do you believe Diesel’s promise of four shows will ever come true?
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