The Fast & Furious franchise is officially shifting into live-action television.
Peacock has ordered a new scripted series set in the Fast & Furious universe, moving the project beyond the development stage announced earlier this year. The streamer is currently targeting a 2028 premiere, although no exact date, cast or plot has been revealed.
Vin Diesel will not necessarily be getting behind the wheel on screen, but he is closely involved behind the scenes. The longtime Dominic Toretto actor is executive producing alongside One Race’s Sam Vincent, franchise producer Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, Jeff Kirschenbaum and veteran Fast & Furious writer Chris Morgan.
Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will serve as co-showrunners, executive producers and writers of the pilot episode. Daniels’ credits include Sons of Anarchy and Shades of Blue, while Coleman has worked on 9-1-1: Lone Star and Shades of Blue.
The big question is whether Dom Toretto actually appears
For now, Peacock is keeping the story almost completely hidden.
There is no announced cast, and it remains unclear whether the show will directly feature Dominic Toretto or any other major characters from the films. The project could follow established franchise characters, introduce a completely new crew or combine both approaches.
That uncertainty makes one of Diesel’s earlier comments more interesting.
When he first announced the TV expansion at NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation in May, Diesel said:
“For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more.”
He explained that audiences had been asking for the franchise to expand “the legacy characters, their stories” and said he waited until he believed the characters and international identity of Fast & Furious could be properly protected on television.
That language suggests the series may not simply be a disconnected spinoff carrying the brand name. At minimum, the creative team appears interested in extending stories already associated with the film universe.
Whether that means Diesel himself will appear remains unconfirmed.
2028 could become a transition year for the franchise
The timing is arguably the most useful piece of context behind Peacock’s announcement.
The TV series is targeting 2028, the same year Universal plans to release Fast Forever, currently scheduled for March 17, 2028. The film is being positioned as the closing chapter of the main movie saga.
That creates an obvious possibility: television could become one of the ways Universal keeps the franchise active after the core film storyline reaches its planned conclusion.
Nothing announced so far confirms that the series takes place after Fast Forever, so it would be premature to call it a sequel to the films. But from a franchise-strategy standpoint, the timing is difficult to ignore.
The movie series began with The Fast and the Furious in 2001 and has since expanded from street racing into international heists, espionage and increasingly enormous action set pieces. Across its theatrical run, the franchise has earned more than $7 billion worldwide.
A television format gives Universal something the movies rarely have time for: smaller stories.
Instead of repeatedly escalating toward global threats, an episodic series could spend more time on individual characters, racing culture, new crews or parts of the Fast world that would never support a $200 million theatrical event.
That is only a possibility for now, not something Peacock has confirmed.
This is the first live-action ‘Fast & Furious’ TV series
The franchise has technically been on television before.
Netflix released the animated Fast & Furious Spy Racers from 2019 through 2021, eventually running for six seasons. The Peacock project is different because it will become the franchise’s first scripted live-action television series.
That distinction matters.
Spy Racers largely targeted a younger audience and could exist adjacent to the movies without having to solve difficult questions about actors, continuity and production scale. A live-action series has to decide much more clearly how closely it wants to resemble the theatrical franchise.
That includes one obvious challenge: spectacle.
Audiences now associate Fast & Furious with enormous practical stunts, exotic locations and vehicles doing things vehicles generally should not be capable of doing. Replicating that scale every episode would be expensive.
The smarter move may be to use television differently — focusing on character, rival crews and street-level action rather than trying to reproduce a movie finale every week.
Diesel’s “four shows” comment still needs context
There has also been some confusion about how many Fast & Furious shows Peacock is actually making.
During the May upfront presentation, Diesel said:
“Peacock is launching four shows from the ‘Fast and Furious’ universe.”
NBCUniversal later clarified that only one series was officially in development at that point. That is also the project that has now received the formal series order. Peacock has not announced three additional shows.
So although Diesel clearly has broader ambitions for television, it would be inaccurate to say Peacock currently has four confirmed Fast & Furious series.
One is official.
The rest, if they still exist creatively, have not yet reached the same stage.
The TV era of ‘Fast & Furious’ is officially beginning
The most important change here is simple: Peacock has moved the project from an idea into an actual series commitment.
There is still a long list of unknowns. No actors have been announced. Peacock has not revealed whether legacy movie characters will appear. There is no episode count, production date or exact 2028 premiere date.
But the franchise now has a clear path beyond theaters.
With Fast Forever preparing to close the main film saga in 2028 and the Peacock series targeting that same year, Universal appears to be setting up a handoff rather than an ending.
The movies may be approaching their final quarter mile.
The larger Fast & Furious universe clearly is not.
