FAST 9

Cars may come and go, but family is forever. And we do mean forever. With Fast 8 already set for 2017, Universal Pictures has just confirmed dates for the next two installments of the Fast and Furious saga. The newly announced movies bring us up to 10 Fast and Furious movies across 20 years. Not bad for a franchise that started out as a less-starry Gone in 60 Seconds and/or a cheesier Point Break ripoff. Series star Vin Diesel revealed on Instagram that Fast and Furious 9 will arrive April 19, 2019, followed by Fast and Furious 10 on April 2, 2021. No other films are set for those dates at this time, and in fact Fast and Furious 10 is now the first title to lock in an exact 2021 release date. (Take that, Marvel and DC!) No other details have been given about the new sequels. We don’t know what they’ll be titled, or who’ll direct them, or even who will star. F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) is shooting Fast 8 is later this year for release on April 14, 2017. The first The Fast...

We’ve learned a lot of things through seven (soon-to-be eight) Fast & Furiousfilms, whether it’s that cars can fly or that Ja Rule cost himself a lot of money. Yet, the biggest lesson is that there’s nothing more important than family. But what happens when a member of the family disappears and is never heard from again? “I get asked on a weekly basis by fans of my work and fans of Fast & Furious, ‘What happened to Leon?'” says Johnny Strong. “If you watch the film and you understand the characters, it would be understandable that he would disappear and move on, just as he showed up.” As the franchise has gone on, Dom’s motley crew has been beefed up, adding players like Roman Pearce (Tyrese), Tej Parker (Ludacris), and Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson). In the beginning, though, there was the original five, consisting of Dom (Vin Diesel), Letty (Michelle Rodriguez), Vince (Matt Schulze), Jesse (Chad Lindberg), and Leon (Strong). Just two of them remain, with Dom and Letty st...

We’ll see ‘F&F9’ in 2019 and ‘F&F10’ in 2021So, with “Fast & Furious 8,” the eighth instalment in the vehicular action franchise that’s known by the silly title “The Fate of the Furious” in the US, opening to the highest-grossing opening weekend of all-time with over $500 million worldwide, nitro-boosting it past “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Jurassic World,” helped in part by its international appeal and the emerging #Filmmarket of China that Hollywood is becoming so eager to tap, future “Fast & Furious” sequels were inevitable, and franchise star #Vin Diesel has confirmed at least two of them. Diesel is happy to continue making “Fast & Furious” films as long as he’s coming to terms with the fact that he’s not a bankable movie star. While these car films are bringing in ridiculous amounts of dollars, that’s not because Diesel’s in them. His last attempt at a franchise, “The Last Witch Hunter,” failed cataclysmically as expected, and “Billy Lynn’s Long Hal...