Vin Diesel has always had a grand plan for the Fast and Furious franchise, one that Universal Pictures has been more than happy to embrace, given that it’s the studio’s single biggest global franchise.
But the truth is that for the Fast franchise to continue beyond Justin Lin‘s upcoming ninth installment and a tenth film that has already been announced, it will need to reinvent itself.
To that end, Diesel and his producing partner Samantha Vincent are developing a female-driven Fast and Furious spinoff based on a pitch they recently heard from writers Nicole Perlman, Lindsey Beer and Geneva Robertson-Dworet. Diesel announced the news on Instagram and Universal had no comment. Collider has learned that while the three scribes pitched the project together, it remains unclear whether all three will be available to co-write the script together, given their busy schedules. It’s possible one may simply receive story credit. The nitty gritty of it all hasn’t quite been worked out, but regardless of how the credits are sorted out, this feels like a natural progression forward for the franchise.
The Fast and Furious franchise has become one of the biggest in Hollywood history as the most recent installments especially have been massive global hits. It surprised literally nobody when it was announced that the series was planning to go to ten main installments, or when the franchise’s first spinoff, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham, was announced.
Vin Diesel says he originally put forth the idea of female driven Fast and Furious movie but that now a story around that concept has been pitched to Diesel and the other producers on the franchise. Diesel published the news to Instagram along with a picture of himself and his sister, Samantha Vincent. As stated, she has a smile on her face. He’s looking serious as usual.
Michelle Rodriguez has been advocating for this idea for years, only to see other franchises beat Fast and Furious to the proverbial punch, but at least it’s finally happening — and with three of Hollywood’s top screenwriters, no less. There’s no limit to what Perlman, Beer and Robertson-Dworet could do with this roster of strong female characters — this franchise has never been one for limits — and one source hints that it could find the Fast females intersecting at different points in time. After all, this series has already played with time, with the third installment, Tokyo Drift, taking place after the sixth movie, upending the entire timeline of the series.
To write the script for the female-led film, three female writers with some serious cred have been brought on board. Nicole Perlman was a writer on the first Guardians of the Galaxy and she also helped pen the story for the upcoming Captain Marvel. While Lindsey Beer only has one completed film to her credit, 2018’s Sierra Burgess is a Loser, she has several high profile projects that she is attached to, including the film adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss’ The Kingkiller Chronicles and the recently announced reboot of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.Geneva Robertson-Dworet is one of the credited screenplay writers for Captain Marvel and she also helped pen the recent Tomb Raider movie.
No details beyond the screenwriters were revealed, so exactly who will star in this film or how it will connect to the main franchise is unclear. One certainly assumes that the current women of the franchise will all be involved.
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