The Fast X Sequel Is Still Coming — If They Can Trim The Budget By a Massive Amount

We each emotion the Fast and the Furious franchise — but Universal Studios has immoderate caveats earlier it's consenting to bankroll the last movie successful the series, peculiarly arsenic they reportedly subordinate to the movie's monolithic budget.

Over 2 years connected from Fast X, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the adjacent installment has not been officially announced conscionable yet due to the fact that it doesn’t person a merchandise day connected the books, oregon adjacent a last script. Plus, galore of the main formed members person not yet signed deals to instrumentality to the franchise.

Why? How? Well, considering the publication presently doing the rounds would reportedly necessitate a fund of astir $250 million, the workplace has allegedly told the filmmakers that it won't greenlight accumulation until expenses are chopped by 20%. As for the wherefore successful each this, it appears to hinge connected the returns from 2023’s Fast X, which was the lowest-grossing movie for the franchise successful implicit a decennary with a $705 cardinal instrumentality location implicit a $340 cardinal budget.

The sequel film, tentatively titled Fast X: Part Two erstwhile it was announced, was primitively expected to deed theaters this year. Vin Diesel, the movie’s starring man, claimed past summertime that the task volition beryllium released successful April 2027, but thing other confirms that day officially.

Back successful June, Diesel opened up astir the adjacent installment during an quality astatine Fuel Fest, a car enthusiasts lawsuit successful Los Angeles.

“The workplace said to me, ‘Vin, tin we delight person the finale of Fast and Furious [in] April 2027?'” Diesel told the crowd. “I said, ‘Under 3 conditions.’ First, is to bring the franchise backmost to L.A.! The 2nd happening was to instrumentality to the car culture, to the thoroughfare racing! The 3rd happening was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner.”

Considering the precocious Paul Walker played Brian O’Conner, it’s anyone’s conjecture however Diesel plans to bring the fallen histrion and his iconic quality backmost to the franchise — but hopefully he’s not suggesting they digitally insert his likeness. Nobody wants that.

There’s besides the question of Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson’s imaginable engagement successful the film. In January, Vin Diesel walked backmost a excavation helium made astatine Johnson portion presenting an grant astatine the 2025 Golden Globes. Diesel posted an older photograph of him and Johnson connected Instagram alongside the caption "All love... Always," aft Diesel poked amusive astatine the infamous feud betwixt the brace by saying, "Hey, Dwayne," during his grant presumption and enjoying the audience's laughter.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.