Peacock Greenlights 'Fast & Furious' Series, Targeting 2028 Debut

Peacock has ordered a scripted television series based on the "Fast & Furious" franchise to series, the streamer announced Thursday. The show is slated to premiere by 2028 — a date engineered to coincide with the next film installment, "Fast Forever," which Universal has scheduled for theatrical release on March 17, 2028.

Vin Diesel, who first disclosed the project's development at the NBCUniversal upfronts in May, will executive produce alongside Sam Vincent of One Race, Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film, and Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan of Chris Morgan Productions.

Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman will serve as co-showrunners, pilot writers and executive producers. Daniels' credits include "Sons of Anarchy," "Shades of Blue" and "The Rockrock Files" predecessor "The Rockford Files"; Coleman's credits span "Shades of Blue" and "911: Lone Star."

Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, will produce the series.

The greenlight marks the franchise's most significant move into live-action television. Netflix previously aired the animated series "Fast & Furious Spy Racers," which ran for six seasons between 2019 and 2021.

At the upfront presentation in May, Diesel framed the series as a response to sustained audience demand. "For the last decade, we have realized that the fans have wanted more," he said. "They wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories. And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space that Fallon has mastered. And I had to wait till it was right… It became right when Donna Langley started to oversee it all, because that's when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family would be protected in the TV space… The news that I have here today is that Peacock is launching four shows from the 'Fast and Furious' universe."

Diesel's reference to Langley, the NBCUniversal executive who oversees the studio's film and television operations, signals the corporate alignment behind the adaptation. His mention of four planned shows from the franchise universe indicates the Peacock series is the leading edge of a broader slate rather than a one-off adaptation.

The franchise marks its 25th anniversary this year. As NBCUniversal's own explainer puts it: "On June 22, 2001, Universal Pictures released 'The Fast and the Furious,' a high-octane thriller set amid the street-racing culture of Los Angeles. The film — starring Vin Diesel as Dominic Toretto, Paul Walker as Brian O'Connell, Jordana Brewster as Mia and Michelle Rodriguez as Letty — would ignite a cultural phenomenon."

The correction: Walker played Brian O'Conner. That 2001 film, budgeted modestly and dismissed by some critics as a gearhead B-movie, spawned one of the highest-grossing film series in history — and now, with a 2028 television premiere pegged to "Fast Forever," a synchronized screen universe spanning both platforms.

The 2028 dual rollout will test whether the franchise's theatrical engine can drive streaming subscriptions on Peacock — and whether audiences raised on the films will follow Dominic Toretto's family to the smaller screen.