Welcome to the “Fast Family,” Michael Lesslie.
On Thursday, “Fast and Furious” franchise star and producer Vin Diesel announced Leslie will write the script for “Fast Forever,” which Universal has dated for theatrical release on March 17, 2028.
Diesel shared the news on Instagram, posting a black-and-white photo of himself meeting with Lesslie to discuss the script for the long-anticipated franchise finale.
“25 years. Eight directors. Countless writers, crew members, performers, each one giving something real to a saga that has outlasted trends, cynics, and time itself,” Diesel began his caption. “That doesn’t happen by accident… It happens because people show up and pour themselves into something bigger than any one individual.”
Sources say Lesslie is rewriting a script previously written by Aaron Rabin and Zach Dean. The screenwriter most recently penned “The Hunger Games” prequels “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” and “Sunrise on the Reaping,” as well as “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t,” as well as Riz Ahmed’s “Hamlet.”
Universal has no comment.
More to come…
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