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Fast & Furious’ $626 Million Hit Saved The Franchise (But Also Doomed It Forever)
Summary
Fast Five’s success saved the franchise, but also set unrealistic expectations for future movies.
The Hobbs spinoff confirms Fast & Furious’ lasting power after nearly two decades.
Fast Five shifted the series from cars to explosive action, paving the way for continued success.
Fast & Furious’ $626 million hit helped save the movie series, but in the process, it also somewhat doomed the franchise. Over two decades after they started, Fast & Furious’ main movies are finally concluding, but the franchise remains a Hollywood juggernaut. The confirmation of a Hobbs spinoff proves Fast & Furious is just as strong as ever, with the series poised to continue long after Fast and Furious 11, which is set to be the final mainline movie. Hobbs & Shaw has already proven the universe’s spinoff potential, and there will likely be many more projects in the future.
There have also been plenty of rumors about an all-female Fast & Furious spinoff, indicating that the franchise has the sort of formula that will allow it to continue for years. All of this is possible thanks to one installment that proved to be a massive hit. Fast & Furious’ first major box office triumph helped rejuvenate the series and highlighted that the universe still had much more to offer. The film made some major alterations to the usual Fast & Furious recipe, and while this helped save the franchise, it also became one of its biggest problems.
Fast Five Was Fast & Furious’ First Major Box Office Hit
Fast Five Was The First Entry In The Franchise To Make Over $500 Million
Fast Five
also had the biggest budget of any
Fast & Furious
movie when it was released, and this paid off by providing the franchise with its best box office performance at the time.
While the previous entries performed well at the box office, Fast Five was the franchise’s first major box office hit. Fast Five is often regarded as one of the best movies in the series, which makes its strong financial performance unsurprising. It became the first Fast & Furious movie to make over $500 million, totaling $626 million at the box office from a $125 million budget. Fast Five also had the biggest budget of any Fast & Furious movie when it was released, and this paid off by providing the franchise with its best box office performance at the time.
The action-heavy tone of the film went down well with audiences and, despite its slightly unrealistic nature, the cinematic feel was an all-time high for Fast & Furious. Fast Five’s original plan could have killed the franchise, as it would have been less slower-paced and may not have included The Rock, who was a huge part of the movie’s success. Choosing to go for a more explosive story made Fast Five a true box office draw, and with the plot still feeling clever and gripping, it proved to be a much bigger financial success than any of its predecessors.
Movie Budget Box Office (Worldwide) The Fast and the Furious $38 million $207 million 2 Fast 2 Furious $76 million $236 million The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift $85 million $159 million Fast & Furious $85 million $360 million Fast Five $125 million $626 million Fast & Furious 6 $160 million $788 million Furious 7 $190 million $1.5 billion Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw $200 million $760 million The Fate of the Furious $250 million $1.2 billion F9 $200 million $726 million Fast X $340 million $714 million
Fast Five
was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s first Fast & Furious appearance.
Fast Five Made It Impossible For The Saga Not To Continue (Despite Its Perfect Ending)
The Box Office Success Proved The Franchise Still Had Plenty Of Life
Despite Fast Five’s brilliant ending, the movie proved the saga had to continue. After pulling off their most daring stunt yet, Fast Five ended with all the main characters and their allies rich and living their best lives, making it the perfect conclusion to the franchise. However, the movie’s unprecedented success also proved the series had to continue, as the large cast mixed with the action-heavy format indicated how much life Fast & Furious still had. The characters had become truly distinct personalities and the heist format showed how bold Fast & Furious could be while still excelling.
Although there have been strong entries since, no other Fast & Furious movie has managed to replicate Fast Five’s overall success. The movie is one of the most popular among critics and audiences while also achieving great box office figures. It earned over $250 million more than the franchise’s previous film, Fast and Furious 4, proving how much the series had progressed. Fast X even copied some aspects of Fast Five but couldn’t improve upon arguably the franchise’s best movie. Finding this level of success while completely reinventing Fast & Furious proved Fast Five was the start of something special.
Since
Fast Five
,
Fast & Furious
has had two movies make over $1 billion, proving that the saga had to continue.
Its ending may have been the best place to end the franchise from a story perspective, but there was far too much potential to definitively conclude the series. Since Fast Five, Fast & Furious has had two movies make over $1 billion, proving that the saga had to continue. Fast Five set up the winning formula for the movie series, and although the franchise has struggled to replicate the same critical success, it has undoubtedly thrived financially.
Fast Five Confirmed Fast & Furious Couldn’t Be About Cars Anymore
Fast Five’s Explosive Action Became More Popular Than Cars & Racing
Fast & Furious may have originally been about cars, but Fast Five proved the series had to change. Cars have still been a huge part of Fast & Furious’ identity over the years, but rather than being about racing and high-speed chases, the franchise has become a more traditional action series. Guns, fist fights, and high-tech weapons became much more prominent after Fast Five since the film highlighted how much bigger the movies could be. While cars still feature in Fast & Furious’ best stunts, the action has changed significantly to make each film feel larger than the next.
Changing Fast & Furious’ original concept was the only way the franchise could adapt and survive, which Fast Five perfectly achieved. The movie’s iconic heist scene still featured cars, as did much of the film’s action, yet it also included more traditional gun fights and brawls. This allowed the series to reach new heights and proved that while cars can still be part of Fast & Furious’ core identity, the movies don’t have to function solely around them. Fast Five managed to expertly find the right balance between car stunts and one-on-one action, which changed the franchise forever.
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Fast & Furious Became Too Big For Its Own Good (Because Of Fast Five)
The Stakes Had To Constantly Increase After Fast Five’s Action-Packed Plot
Despite all the good that came from Fast Five, the film also meant Fast & Furious became too big for its own good. After changing its box office trajectory and exciting action style, Fast Five also ensured that every sequel had to be bigger, which created its own problems. Naturally, this meant more and more crazy stunts, which involved driving out of cargo planes, racing across frozen lakes, and even piloting a rocket car into space. The weapons also became more advanced, ensuring the series became less realistic and more fun, even at the expense of logic sometimes.
With each movie, the stakes got higher, but so did the budgets. As the series constantly tried to outdo itself, every movie became more expensive than the last. Practical effects and props no doubt cost more as the franchise went on, but the cast also grew bigger, with huge names such as John Cena, Brie Larson, Jason Momoa, and Kurt Russell all joining the cast. The attempt to make every new entry better than the last ultimately became Fast & Furious’ undoing, as despite making $714 million, Fast X’s $340 budget meant the movie found limited financial success.
Fast Five was undoubtedly a huge part in helping the franchise grow, but it set new expectations that were hard to surpass. While the series has still produced some highlights since then like Furious 7, the Fast & Furious franchise has simply become too big for its own good, causing each movie to become more expensive and slightly less interesting.
Fast Five The fifth installment in the Fast & Furious franchise, Fast Five continues the Fast Saga in a high-octane thrill ride. When Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Conner’s (Paul Walker) gang become international fugitives, they are hunted by Luke Hobbs, an agent of the DSS. They also fall foul of a Brazillian drug lord, deciding to perform a heigh-stakes heist in order to steal $100 million from him.Release Date April 29, 2011 Studio(s) Universal Pictures Distributor(s) Universal Pictures Runtime 130 Minutes Budget $125 Million
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Fast & Furious 11 Release Delay & Filming Start Date Confirmed By Director
Summary
Fast and Furious 11
is facing a release date delay to Summer 2026 due to strikes, with director Louis Leterrier confirming the sequel will not be hitting its April 4, 2025 date.
Leterrier also confirms that filming starts in Fall 2025 after finishing a horror movie in September.
The final installment in the
Fast Saga
reunites Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto for one last ride, while also leaving the door open for other spinoffs.
After facing multiple delays due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strikes, Fast and Furious 11 is seeing its release date delayed. The next installment in the Vin Diesel-fronted franchise is expected to be the last mainline sequel, while development continues on the Dwayne Johnson-led spinoff Hobbs & Reyes, a mysterious standalone movie penned by Fast X’s Zach Dean and a potential female-led spinoff. While a filming start date was never confirmed, Universal had previously set the movie for an April 2025 release date.
During a recent interview with Collider at a CCXP MX panel, Louis Leterrier was asked for an update on Fast and Furious 11. The director went on to confirm that the final mainline installment in the action franchise will no longer be making its April 4, 2025 release date, instead now aiming for a Summer 2026 release window with the filming start date being set for this fall. Check out what Leterrier said below:
It’s happening. It’s happening very, very soon. I’m able to shoot a little horror movie this summer. I’m finishing my horror movie on September 15th, and I start Fast on September 16th.
Will Fast 11’s Multiple Delays Help Or Hurt The Sequel?
Much like the tenth film before it, Fast and Furious 11 has faced a few behind-the-scenes hardships in its road to getting off the ground, namely the delays stemming from the 2023 strikes. While the latest movie seems to have retained its core creative team in comparison to the shift in directors from franchise vet Justin Lin to Leterrier on Fast X after reported creative differences between the former and Diesel, this change didn’t seem to help much with the continued downward trend recent sequels have seen from critics. Check out how the franchise’s Rotten Tomatoes scores compare below:
Title RT Critical Score RT Audience Score The Fast and the Furious 54% 74% 2 Fast 2 Furious 37% 50% The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 37% 69% Fast & Furious 28% 67% Fast Five 78% 83% Fast & Furious 6 71% 84% Furious 7 81% 82% The Fate of the Furious 67% 72% Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw 67% 88% F9: The Fast Saga 59% 82% Fast X 56% 84%
Even looking outside the Fast and Furious franchise, many movie sequels have found themselves hurt by various delays, be they from creative changes, general release shifts or other factors. The action genre in particular is one in which lengthier development periods can lead to diminishing returns, be it A Good Day to Die Hard, Rambo: Last Blood or Diesel’s own xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. While Fast and Furious 11 may only be getting pushed back by a year, the delay is nonetheless a concern that the final installment could find itself in trouble.
On the other hand, the longer wait for Fast and Furious 11 to close out the mainline series of movies could actually prove beneficial for the sequel. Though Leterrier may be busy with another project in the lead-up to filming the next installment, writers Oren Uziel and Christina Hodson should now have more than enough time to really look back at the script and ensure it learns from the critical missteps of recent installments to deliver a satisfying conclusion to the Dominic Toretto saga.
Source: Collider
Fast and Furious 11 Fast and Furious 11 is the final movie in the Fast Saga. It reunites Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto with the rest of the cast for one last ride. However, the franchise is open for spinoff films like Hobbs & Shaw afterward.Director Louis Leterrier Release Date April 4, 2025 Distributor(s) Universal Pictures Writers Christina Hodson , Oren Uziel
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Vin Diesel Already Has His Perfect Fast & Furious Replacement Franchise With 51-Year-Old Remake
Summary
Vin Diesel’s dominance in Fast & Furious is ending, but Kojak could kick off a new action franchise for him.
Kojak’s reboot faces an uncertain future, but its similarity to Fast & Furious makes it a worthy project for Diesel.
Diesel’s potential shift from criminal racer to cop signifies a fresh start in a possible Fast & Furious-like series.
Vin Diesel’s days of playing Dominic Toretto are numbered, but the actor has already found his perfect Fast & Furious replacement. Diesel found a major breakout role in the early 2000s thanks to participating in The Fast and the Furious. The original 2001 street racing crime movie became the springboard for a sprawling franchise that has lasted for over two decades. The success of the Fast & Furious movies transformed Vin Diesel’s career, turning him into an even bigger star, especially in the action movie genre. But, Fast & Furious 11 is planned as the final chapter for him and the franchise.
The Fast & Furious franchise’s end will put Vin Diesel in an unfamiliar position of not having a major franchise to lean back on. This presents the actor with various options, such as changing the course of his career to pursue non-franchise roles. However, the more likely outcome is that Diesel will attempt to find a new IP that can replace Fast & Furious. He has had trouble in that regard recently, with franchises like xXx or Riddick running cold and Bloodshot and The Last Witch Hunter failing to launch franchises. There is another option for Diesel, though.
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Kojak Can Be Vin Diesel’s New Action Crime Franchise After Fast & Furious
Diesel Has Been Developing The Reboot Since 2015
The impending conclusion of the Fast & Furious franchise means it is finally time for Vin Diesel’s Kojak reboot to get off the ground. The project was announced back in 2015 with Diesel re-teaming with Universal Pictures, the studio behind Fast & Furious, to develop a movie based on Kojak. The original TV series starred Telly Savalas as Theo Kokaj and ran for three seasons after debuting in 1973. The series revolves around Kojak, a New York detective known for being willing to go beyond the law and a love for cars and lollipops, and follows him as he investigates different cases.
Kojak was rebooted in 2005 as a TV show starring Ving Rhames, but it only ran for six episodes
Development on Vin Diesel’s Kojak movie has not been very active in the nine years since it was announced. However, it still maintains the base similarities to Fast & Furious, which makes the project a worthwhile endeavor for Diesel in terms of finding a new action franchise. He would now have another big action series about cars and crime, essentially making Kojak into a newer version of Fast & Furious. The irony here is that Diesel takes on the role of a cop after playing criminal racer Dominic Toretto.
Vin Diesel’s Involvement Can Morph Kojak Into A Major Action Franchise
Kojak Could Be A Fast & Furious Clone
Looking at the original TV show, Kojak might not necessarily project to be a major blockbuster action franchise akin to Fast & Furious. The TV series was relatively grounded and small due to the nature of its production. However, the fact that Diesel and Universal pinpointed this property as something they wanted to revive together is telling. The announcement of Kojak’s reboot came months after Furious 7 debuted in theaters and took the franchise to new heights at the box office and in terms of how ridiculously big the action and story could get.
It’s sometimes difficult to remember that Fast & Furious started off with a story about DVD thieves who were also street racers before Diesel helped turn it into something much bigger. With that experience and success already behind him, it would be understandable if a similar path was envisioned for Kojak. The series could then morph into a Fast & Furious clone, one that gives Vin Diesel a new franchise to headline and Universal a “fresh” action franchise to grow.
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The Rock’s WWE Run Means Fast & Furious 11 Must Make 1 Major Hobbs Change
Summary
Hobbs from Fast & Furious 11 needs a gritty edge like The Rock’s WWE character to keep the franchise fresh and exciting.
The Rock’s time away from the Fast & Furious universe provides the perfect reason for Hobbs to return with a personal vendetta and a more savage attitude.
While Hobbs shouldn’t become a full-fledged villain in Fast & Furious 11, adding some edginess and dirty tricks could make his character more intriguing and dynamic.
Fast & Furious 11 must make one major Hobbs change after The Rock’s incredible WWE run. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s WWE return surpassed his recent movies, with the actor creating some of the best work of his career. Having returned to a thunderous reception, The Rock was able to flip the crowd’s reception by becoming a heel and playing a major part in WrestleMania’s main events. The Rock hasn’t played a villain on screen for years, as even his depiction of Black Adam lent more into the character’s anti-hero side, which made his wrestling run all the more refreshing.
While his wrestling character may not perfectly translate into the Fast & Furious universe, there is one aspect of The Rock’s WWE run that the franchise should attempt to implement. After debuting in Fast Five, The Rock’s best Fast & Furious scenes helped contribute to the movie series becoming so popular, with Luke Hobbs becoming an instrumental part of the story. He was even given his own spinoff alongside Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) and is set to get a solo movie in the future. Despite this, Hobbs would still benefit from adding one key aspect of The Rock’s WWE run.
The Rock’s WWE Run Proves Fast & Furious 11 Needs To Give Hobbs More Of An Edge
Fast & Furious Would Benefit From Hobbs Adopting Some Of The Rock’s WWE Tendancies
Given how electrifying The Rock’s recent WWE run was, there is no doubt Fast & Furious 11 needs to give Hobbs more of an edge. Although the character has had his more serious moments, like most of the Fast & Furious cast, Hobbs tends to mix action with comedy. Hobbs and Shaw are supposed to be two of the more stoic heroes, yet they are constantly at each other’s throats and cracking jokes to help maintain the franchise’s lighthearted core. However, giving Hobbs a grittier side would help the character thrive upon his return.
The Rock’s Fast & Furious return may redeem Fast X’s box office, but the character needs to come back stronger than ever. By allowing him to be more ruthless, he can still maintain some elements of comedy but also become more interesting in the process. Johnson proved that despite being a detestable heel, he was still as hilarious as ever during his recent WWE tenure. This proves that he can maintain Fast & Furious’ tone and humorous style while being more layered; therefore, Hobbs adopting some of The Rock’s WWE characteristics could make him even more entertaining.
Fast & Furious Already Has A Reason For Hobbs To Be More Savage
Hobbs Has Been Away From The Franchise For Several Years
Making a major change to Hobbs’ character could be tough to explain, but Fast & Furious 11 already has a great reason to make him more savage. His four-year absence from the franchise gives him a perfect excuse to come back with a vengeance and potentially have a personal attachment to Fast & Furious 11’s villains. Hobbs’ time away from the main story could be explained through a connection to Fast X’s secondary villain, Aimes. Aimes’ villain twist in Fast X was well executed and suggests he’ll be around for the sequel, which is the perfect reason to bring back Hobbs.
Having a more personal story with one of the villains could allow Hobbs to continue his great quips and one-liners, but it would also give him more of an edge.
Fast X never explained why he’s back, but having a personal vendetta against Aimes could be an intriguing reason. Given Dom and Dante are the focal point of the franchise’s conclusion, Hobbs returning to take down Aimes would avoid overshadowing the main story while still giving him an interesting role. Having a personal story with one of the villains could allow Hobbs to continue his great quips and one-liners, while also giving him more of an edge. This provides The Rock with the perfect reason to implement some of his heel traits while still portraying a morally good hero.
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Why Fast & Furious Can’t Bring The Rock Back As A Villain
Hobbs Already Appeared As An Antagonist In Fast Five
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Although The Rock’s villainous tendencies worked well in the WWE, Fast & Furious can’t bring him back as an antagonist. Johnson already played the main villain of Fast Five, as Hobbs was originally an enemy of Dom and his crew before becoming an ally. Hobbs’ role in Fast Five was one of his best, but despite being the main antagonist, he always had a level of integrity. Dropping all of this to make him a villain in the final movie would be completely unnecessary, especially as the franchise needs him to remain a hero for his spinoff.
Fast & Furious 11 may end the main story, but The Rock will be part of the franchise beyond this, and altering his character so drastically wouldn’t make any sense. Instead, adding some extra edge to his character would have the same effect and would avoid stealing the thunder from Dante and Aimes. Although Fast & Furious 11 shouldn’t make him a villain, the film can still allow Hobbs to play dirty and pull some cheap tricks in order to show a grittier side, while letting him taunt his enemies when he inevitably helps save the day.
Fast & Furious 11
is scheduled to be released in theaters on April 4, 2025.
Fast and Furious 11 Fast and Furious 11 is the final movie in the Fast Saga. It reunites Vin Diesel’s Dominic Toretto with the rest of the cast for one last ride. However, the franchise is open for spinoff films like Hobbs & Shaw afterward.Director Louis Leterrier Release Date April 4, 2025 Distributor(s) Universal Pictures Writers Christina Hodson , Oren Uziel
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