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title: "Fast & Furious 9 Announced for 2020 Release"
description: "You thought F8 was the end? Nope, there's more."
date: "2017-10-04"
modified: "2017-10-04"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/14873/fast-furious-9-announced-for-2020-release"
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  - "Culture"
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Fast & Furious"
  - "Film"
  - "gaming"
  - "Hollywood"
  - "Project Cars 2"
  - "Video Games"
---

# Fast & Furious 9 Announced for 2020 Release

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Universal Studios announced that the now eight-installment-strong *Fast & Furious* film franchise will receive yet another entry, planned for release on April 10, 2020, according to a post Wednesday on the [official *Fast & Furious* Facebook page](<https://www.facebook.com/FastandFurious/>).

No details have been released on the film yet, though a return of everyone's favorite cast of characters is likely, as the franchise has not experimented with side stories since the third film, 2006's *Tokyo Drift*, which is also the lowest-grossing of all *Fast & Furious* films.

The film series is set to terminate [after the 10th film](<https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/fast-and-furious/news/a826502/fast-furious-10-final-movie-series-confirmed/>), but with the release date for the ninth film only just announced, the final movie may be another couple years beyond that.

The *Fast & Furious* franchise is planned to expand before it ends with the tenth film, however. A former producer of the BBC's *Top Gear* is in charge of bringing the film's stunts to life as part of a series of [globe-touring arena shows](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14558/fast-furious-live-arena-shows-announced>), under the name *Fast & Furious Live*. These arena shows are set to introduce new characters, and tell a tie-in tale set after the events of *The Fate of the Furious*.

In addition to live shows, the franchise is returning to the digital realm, as the head of Slightly Mad Studios, the maker of *Project Cars*, has hinted that the studio is [developing a licensed *Fast & Furious* game](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/14515/the-developer-of-project-cars-2-may-be-making-a-fast-furious-game>), as part of the franchise's foray back into video games, where it has struggled in the past. Whether the game in development will be a standalone title, telling a new story of its own, or a tie-in to the story of the upcoming *Fast 9* (or live arena shows) is uncertain.

Slightly Mad Studios has not yet commented upon *The Drive*'s inquiry to this matter. Should we hear from them, our readers will be the first to know of developments.

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

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