The Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw.
Still, there's reason for concern that Universal's starting to move too quickly with the franchise. The studio's released a new Fast & Furious movie every two years for the past decade, and the approach has served them well. Not only have the films steadily increased in popularity over that period, they've also brought the property newfound levels of critical acclaim. Arguably, that's because each movie has come out far enough apart to give the franchise's creative architects time to evaluate what did and didn't work and evolve their plans for the next sequel accordingly.
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This has resulted in noticeable changes to the franchise's formula (in a good way), in of everything from the tone to genre, and - more recently - even gender representation. Now, however, Universal is taking steps to make Fast & Furious an annual event, between the various spinoffs and sequels that are officially in development and those we haven't heard about yet, but which are clearly being either mapped out or considered. If that strategy sounds familiar, it's because Disney just tried doing that with a galaxy far, far away... and they learned the hard way that it doesn't really work.
Fast & Furious Is Building Up To One Movie A Year
At the moment, Justin Lin is only confirmed to direct Fast & Furious 9 right now, despite Vin Diesel's claim that he's already committed to helming Fast 10 after. Thing is, the latter doesn't have a screenwriter just yet and will need to start production in just over a year, around the same time Fast 9 hits theaters. That's a quick turn-around, not least of all for a project that hasn't really begun pre-production this far out.
For that reason, there's a good chance the 2021 release date will ultimately go to Hobbs & Shaw took its old spot in 2019. Either way, the end result is the same: Universal clearly intends to start releasing a new Fast & Furious movie each year.
This Is What Ruined Disney's Star Wars
As we've discussed at Screen Rant before, The Last Jedi by the time Solo hit theaters last May.
We're already starting to see similar issues crop up with Fast & Furious. the late Paul Walker's no longer part of the series).
Put simply, Disney's missteps with Star Wars have demonstrated that not all shared universes are meant to sustain a film a year, much less multiple ones (a la Marvel and DC's cinematic franchises). And as much as Fast & Furious has evolved into a superhero property of its own lately, there's fair reason to think it would be better off sticking with its approach of releasing a new movie every two years, not annually.
