If you thought the Fast and Furious franchise couldn’t go anywhere else, you were wrong. With the Comcast-NBCUniversal acquisition of Dreamworks, Dreamworks Animation Television have been given the green light to adapt the franchise for an animated series for Netflix.
The story will follow Tony Toretto, Dom (Vin Diesel)’s teenage cousin, as he and his friends are recruited by the government to infiltrate an elite racing league that is a front for a criminal organisation bent on world domination.
The series is currently in development, so it won’t be hitting the streaming service for a while; certainly not before the Hobbs and Shaw spin-off starring Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson which is due for release in July 2019.
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Margie Cohn, president of DreamWorks Animation Television said “We are excited to extend and expand our successful relationship with Netflix by not only delivering more high-quality DreamWorks programming but connecting fans of Universal films with fascinating new stories. Our new home at Universal marks an exciting new chapter for storytelling at our studio, and Fast & Furious is only the beginning.”
Vin Diesel, Neil Moritz and Chris Morgan are attached to the series as executive producers, while Tim Hedrick (“Voltron: Legendary Defender”) and Bret Haaland (“All Hail King Julien”) will serve as both executive producers and showrunners.
The live-action film franchise has earned over $5 billion at the worldwide box office over eight films. Outside of the spin-off, the ninth and tenth instalments of the franchise are due to be released in April 2020 and April 2021.
