Universal Pictures has decided to end ‘The Fast & The Furious’ core film series with 11 films in total. Justin Lin, who has directed five films out of the nine in the franchise, including the latest ‘F9’, is in talks with the production company giant to direct the next two final installments and finally bringing the epic saga to a close.
The Vin Diesel – Paul Walker phenomenon started out as a bunch of street racers stealing oil tanks, with an undercover cop infiltrating the tight-knit group, similar to ‘Point Break’. Eventually the series went on to involve multiple heists, and cover new ground in the action genre featuring amazing cars, with a new roster of high profile actors surrounding the core group.
After Paul Walker’s tragic death, the seventh installment of the franchise got a severe boost due to the audiences clamouring to see Walker for the last time and the series which was supposed to end at 7, continued on due to it’s newfound popularity. The series has gone to spawn a spin-off ‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ which was another commercial hit. There are more spin-offs in the work as well, with an animated series ‘Fast & Furious Spy Racers’ already out on Netflix.
‘The Fast & The Furious’ is Universal Pictures’s highest grossing movie franchise with over 5.7 billion dollars in earnings. Now, it would be difficult to beat out a franchise as big as the ‘Jurassic Park’ series but, the ‘F&F’ has done exactly that, beating ‘Jurassic Park’s’ 5 billion dollars of total earnings. The ‘Jurassic Park’ franchise also has it’s next installment ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ undergoing shoots in London currently.
With the ‘F&F’ series eventually ending at 11, we don’t think this is the last of ‘The Fast & The Furious’ though. We are gonna be expecting multiple spin-offs and cameos in the (dare we say it) decades to come. But for now, we can’t wait for the next three films of the installation to come out and we are looking forward to seeing what action stunt involving a car Vin Diesel and Justin Lin are going to pull off next.