Vin Diesel confirms ‘Fast Forever’ starts filming in December

Vin Diesel says filming for “Fast Forever” has a start date.

“We start shooting in December, if I can make good on the request from the studio,” Diesel told Variety Monday night at the 25th anniversary screening of “The Fast and the Furious.” “I’m in a good place, though. I had to go through four sets of writers, four years of development, to get to something that I felt would be worthy of a finale. And when I read the script a couple of weeks ago, [I cried].”

Inside the screening, Diesel addressed the audience before the lights dimmed and shared more details about how the “Fast Forever” script brought him to tears.

“I’m going to tell you something personal,” he said. “It was after four different writers, four years of development, and after I read the script, halfway through, one tear. By the end of the script that we crafted and worked so hard to make right for you after four years, I was crying. I couldn’t hold it back, and I had to tell everyone. And my sister said, ‘No more crying, bro.’ So I just want to say that sometimes, even the toughest guys in the world need to cry.”

“Fast Forever,” the 11th and final mainline film in the series, hits theaters on March 17, 2028. “Fast & Furious” is Universal’s longest-running franchise and its most profitable, with a combined worldwide gross of $7.3 billion.

While Diesel is all in on the latest “Fast Forever” draft, director Louis Leterrier recently told Polygon that he’s yet to read the script.

“I’d love to tell you the full truth, but I can’t,” Leterrier said. “There will be an ending, and it’s great. I was very, very lucky to be part of the franchise, and I love Vin and I love Universal. They’re great to work with. So yeah. We’ll see, hopefully.”

-Variety