Vin Diesel has revealed a ton of new info on the next instalment of Fast & Furious, including a release window and the comeback of Brian O’ConnerRyan Hirons
We’ve been in for an unusually long wait for the next installment of Fast & Furious. Since the release of Fast X in 2023, we’ve had very little to work with for official information on when its follow-up is coming – but that’s just changed.
Vin Diesel has just confirmed a whole host of new information for the eleventh film in the series, currently known as Fast X: Part 2, including the return of Brian O’Conner.
The return of Brian O’Conner
Speaking on stage during Fuel Fest, Vin Diesel dropped a shedload of new information on the next instalment of the series. The bombshell announcement was that his character, Dom Toretto, would be reunited with Brian O’Conner.
Of course, we don’t know how that will all play out. O’Conner hasn’t been seen on screen since Fast & Furious 7, with the passing of actor Paul Walker during filming. Digital re-insertion could be an option, although Walker’s brothers Cody and Caleb were used for some stand-in shots in F7, so it’s possible either could reprise the role.
When will Fast X: Part 2 release?
Along with the O’Conner announcement, Vin Diesel confirmed that distributor Universal Studios wants the eleventh film to release in April 2027. No exact date has been pinned down yet, but that would make it just shy of four years between Fast X and its sequel.
Where will Fast X: Part 2 be set, and what will it be about?
As with most recent Fast films, we’d expect Fast X: Part 2 will be shot in multiple locations globally rather than locked to one location, but Vin Diesel has said it’ll be returning to Los Angeles in some capacity.
LA has appeared multiple times in the franchise, though it was only the original film that was set entirely within the city.
Oh, and speaking of returning to roots, Vin Diesel has also told Universal Studios to “return to car culture, to the street racing…”. How it does that after sending a Pontiac Fiero to space though, is beyond our minds.
Fast X left us on a genuine cliffhanger, too. Just to kick-start your memory, or in case you haven’t seen the film and have zero interest in watching it, we see a plane carrying Roman, Tej, Han, and Ramsey shot down by Aimes – who turns out to have been working with antagonist Dante Reyes and duping Dom Toretto’s crew in the process.
It cuts to the end credits shortly after leaving us to wonder about the fate of the crew but, if things go in a typical F&F fashion, we’ll expect them to all miraculously survive.