Even beforeThe Fate of the Furioustook in a record-breakingglobal box office debutof $531.9 million, Universal had already put plans in place for the final two movies in the franchise.Fast & Furious 9is set to hit theaters on July 27, 2025, with the franchise finale,Fast & Furious 10hitting theaters on August 17, 2025. While the movie’s box office take apparently wasn’t affected at all, this new movie made headlines for a behind-the-scenes feud between starsVin DieselandDwayne Johnson, which reportedly even lead to both actors being separated during the movie’s promotional tour. Today a new report claims that both actors have put their differences aside and resolved their feud, both now slated to return inFast & Furious 9, whileKurt Russellalso expresses his interest in coming back as Mr. Nobody.
TMZreports that bothVin DieselandDwayne Johnsonhave met privately a number of times since the feud erupted during production ofThe Fate of the Furious, and they are now both “good” and “1000%” ready to return forFast & Furious 9. This report doesn’t reveal when this feud was resolved, but the site’s sources claim that the feud largely revolved around “real estate,” a movie term that relates to how much an actor’s character gets to “shine” in a particular movie, meaning who gets the most face time, the best action scenes, etc. This was reportedly a big issue forDwayne Johnson, but the actor reportedly came to terms with the fact that these areVin Diesel’s movies, since he is #1 on the call sheet and he has been with the franchise since the beginning.
The site’s sources also claimed that theFast & Furious feudhad nothing to do with money, since both actors “make a fortune” off the films. The feud started towards the end of production, whenDwayne Johnsonposted a surprisingly scathing social media post, where he called some of his male co-stars “candy asses.” While the target of his rant was never explicitly stated, it was widely believed to beVin Diesel, with his social media post reportedly leading toVin DieselconfrontingThe Rockon the set. There was also a recent report that claimed this feud lead to a post-credit scene getting cut.
We reported yesterday that there was originally supposed to be aFast 8 post-credit scenethat featuredDwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs andJason Statham’s Deckard Shaw, who started the movie as rivals, before being forced to work together and forming a bond between them. There was even talk that the studio was considering a spin-off featuring Hobbs and Shaw, but that was never confirmed. This report claimed that producerNeal Moritzshot this post-credits scene in secret, butSamantha Vincent, an executive producer on the film andVin Diesel’s sister, found out about the scene, which reportedly “enraged” her brother.Vin Dieselreportedly contacted the studio and “explosively aired his grievances” which lead to the scene being pulled from all of the prints, but it may surface on the home video release. While it will certainly be some time before we have an official cast list forFast & Furious 9,Kurt Russellalso expressed his interest in returning as Mr. Nobody. Here’s what the actor had to say when asked if he’d be interesting in coming back.
“Well, all my life I’ve never been one for sequels and stuff. I’ve done it one time with Escape From LA, which was from Escape From New York, which was 17 years earlier. But we live in a different time now. We live in a time where that’s the norm. I’ve never had anything against it, I just think that each time what I think they’ve learned now, is that you can’t just throw a sequel out there because you did good business. You have to go after it to make it even better. It puts more pressure on you. That, I like! That, I think, is a challenge, and every time you look at what it is, and if you like it and you think you’ve got a reason to do it, you do it. If there’s not you don’t.”
As forFast & Furious 9, no official details have been given, aside from the release date, but writerChris Morgan, who has written every movie except the first two, recently teased that the lateHan Seoul-Oh, played bySung Kang, may return. Han was killed at the end of 2006’sThe Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, but he then returned in 2009’sFast & Furious, 2011’sFast Fiveand 2013’sFast & Furious 6, where it was revealed that the last three movies were set beforeTokyo Drift, revealing thatJason Statham’s Deckard Shaw is the one who killed Han. It’s possible that the timeline could be altered in some way for the last two movies, or that there simply may be some flashback scenarios involving Han, which may finally reveal his real name, since it has been confirmed that Han Seoul-Oh is in fact a fake name, an homage to Han Solo. Universal hasn’t announced when production may begin forFast & Furious 9at this time.
