Fast & Furious 11 is apparently getting released in 2026 after being delayed from this year’s planned April 2025 release, but whether we’ll see it next year remains to be seen.
There’s been no official word on filming starting, despite returning director Louis Leterrier saying it would start “early” this year.
That didn’t happen and it seems right now that Vin Diesel is working on Los Bandoleros 2 instead of Fast X Part 2, a sequel to the short film that acted as a prequel to the fourth movie, Fast & Furious.
Universal hasn’t announced a new release date for Fast & Furious 11 – but the lack of movement on filming means we might not get it in 2026.
As far as we know, it won’t be the next movie we see in the series, as Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs is getting a solo movie before then.
After his surprise return in Fast X‘s credit scene, Johnson announced that his standalone movie would act as “a fresh, new chapter & set-up” for Fast X Part 2. We’re still waiting on any update on that Hobbs movie though, so who knows if it’s still happening.
While we wait for further information on that spinoff, let’s delve into what we can expect from Fast & Furious 11, aka Fast X Part 2.
Fast and Furious 11 potential release date: When can we expect Fast X 2?
Fast & Furious 11 will no longer be released on April 4, 2025, as originally announced, and as mentioned above, we’re still waiting for a new release date as of May 2025.
As mentioned above, filming has not started on the new movie. There was a plan to release it in 2026, marking the 25th anniversary of the series.
The Fast and the Furious was released on June 22, 2001, so Fast X Part 2 could arrive in cinemas on June 22, 2026. Whether this can still happen remains to be seen, given the lack of production so far.
In February 2025, Alan Ritchson said the delays are down to trying to get its A-list cast together at the same time.
“You’ve got a lot of guys like Dwayne and Vin and Momoa and myself and everybody’s super busy. So trying to get the stars to align so we can make that happen is a feat of nature,” he told us.
As for the Hobbs solo movie, which we expect to come out before Fast X Part 2, we’ve heard nothing about it since its announcement in June 2023.
Fast and Furious 11 cast: Who’s coming back for Fast X 2?
The cast for Fast & Furious 11 has yet to be confirmed, but we can make some educated guesses based on the events of Fast X.
Vin Diesel will, of course, be back as Dominic Toretto even though the finale of Fast X saw him in a bit of a pickle at the bottom of a dam that’s about to be blown up by Dante Reyes, but there’s no way the series kills off Dom or his son Brian (Leo Abelo Perry).
The fates of Roman (Tyrese Gibson), Tej (Ludacris), Ramsey (Nathalie Emmanuel) and Han (Sung Kang) are also up in the air after new Agency leader Aimes (Alan Ritchson) – who was working all along with Dante – fired a rocket at their plane, causing it to crash.
One of them may be killed off, but don’t be surprised if they’re all back in the next movie.
Ritchson is hoping he’ll be back, telling EW in May 2023: “There have been a lot of conversations. I’m amped to play the bad guy and put the gas to the floor. Let’s see him try and succeed at what he wants to do. You can decide if he’s bad or not, but, yeah, I’m ready.”
Michelle Rodriguez and Charlize Theron will also be back as Letty and Cipher, respectively, after the final scene saw them picked up in Antarctica by Gisele (Gal Gadot) who, yes, is somehow back from the dead. (How? Who knows.)
Gadot will be back as she seemed pretty happy with her unexpected return: “Missed my Fast family! I’m overwhelmed with excitement.”
Jason Statham will return as Deckard Shaw, assuming he manages to save his mother Queenie (Helen Mirren) from Dante’s henchmen, while he might have a reunion with Hobbs after Dwayne Johnson’s surprise return in the credit scene.
Statham may also pop up in the solo Hobbs movie, but maybe the fact it’s not being referred to as Hobbs & Shaw 2 suggests he’s only going to appear in the ‘main’ timeline.
The major casualty of Fast X was John Cena’s Jakob Toretto who sacrifices himself to help Dom save his son. Jakob’s car blew up with him in it, but we didn’t technically see a body, so in this series, you can never say never.
Talking of the Toretto family, Jordana Brewster’s Mia will be back and hopefully will have more to do this time around, while we might also see Daniela Melchior return as Isabel – who’s revealed to be Elena’s sister, which makes her the aunt of Dom’s son.
Alongside Jason Momoa’s Dante and Alan Ritchson’s Aimes, Brie Larson’s Tess should also be another Fast X newcomer to return in the next movie. She was shot but seemed fine, and perhaps it’ll draw her father, Mr Nobody (Kurt Russell) out of the shadows.
That already seems like a big enough cast for the next movie, but other returns could include Scott Eastwood’s Little Nobody and Rita Moreno as Dom, Mia and Jakob’s grandmother.
If Fast & Furious 11 is the end of the Fast Saga, then Paul Walker’s Brian O’Conner will likely have a presence in the movie, although it’s unclear exactly how – or if – they’ll bring back Brian.
Diesel certainly hinted as much in a tribute post on Instagram in early September 2024. “To think I just saw concept art for the next chapter. Brian… yeah, I will have to brace myself for this next film,” he wrote.
Fans have also speculated that we could see Devon Aoki reprise her role as Suki from 2 Fast 2 Furious after Diesel shared a reunion photo in July 2024.
Walker’s daughter Meadow makes a cameo in Fast X as a flight attendant who helps Jakob and Brian escape the Agency, so she could be back and revealed to have a bigger role in the Toretto family.
Fast and Furious 11 plot: What can we expect from Fast X 2?
Fast X is practically all set up for Fast & Furious 11 (and potentially beyond), so let’s run through what’s left hanging at the end.
As mentioned above, the fates of Dom and his son Brian, along with Roman, Tej, Ramsey and Han, are all up in the air. We’re confident Dom and Brian will make it out of their predicament, but one (or more) of the other four might have perished.
Letty and Cipher are stranded in Antarctica, but help has arrived in the form of the previously-dead Gisele who now seems to be going around in a submarine. (Not the one from Fast & Furious 8 as that was destroyed.)
Deckard Shaw is off to go and save his mum from henchmen sent after Queenie by Dante because she’s helped Dom in the past, while Hobbs is the latest target of Dante’s wrath which sets up his solo movie.
Even though Fast & Furious 11 hasn’t been written yet, the events of Fast X were written with knowledge of where all this will end, so even though it doesn’t feel conclusive, it will all come together.
“We needed to understand where we’re ending in order to create the road to it,” Leterrier told the Los Angeles Times in May 2023.
“So on top of everything that we had to do, we had to decide, ‘This is where this franchise is going to end. It has to end this way.’ Yes, yes, yes. Everybody agreed. Shook hands. And then we went back to work.”
As to what that actual ending will be, we have no idea right now (although a BBQ will probably be involved somewhere), so your guess is as good as ours – but the speculation is part of the fun.
Fast and Furious 11 trailer: Any Fast X 2 footage yet?
Even though we know it’s coming, Fast & Furious 11 hasn’t started filming, so there’s no footage to show you yet.
Fast & Furious 11 does not yet have a confirmed release date.