"Fast & Furious 11" Sets 2028 Release Date

Universal Pictures has dated the next “Fast & Furious” installment — now titled “Fast Forever” — for March 17, 2028.

Franchise star and producer Vin Diesel also shared the news on Instagram, posting a photo of himself with the late Paul Walker from the original film, 2001’s “The Fast and the Furious.”

“No one said the road would be easy… but it’s ours. One that has defined us and become our legacy… And a legacy… lasts forever," he captioned the post.

Over the past 25 years, the “Fast & Furious” movies have grossed a total of $7.3 billion, making it Universal’s most profitable and longest-running franchise.

2015’s “Furious 7″ is the top-grossing installment with $1.5 billion worldwide, followed by 2023’s “Fast X” which grossed $704 million.

The high-octane blockbusters have also spawned a multitude of other offerings, including an animated series and the 2019 Dwayne Johnson-Jason Statham spinoff "Hobbs & Shaw".

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The announcement comes after months of speculation about when Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and his crew — Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel, Sung Kang, and Jason Statham — would hit the engine of their muscle cars following the massive cliffhanger ending to “Fast X.”

The final minutes of 2023’s “Fast X” show Dom driving down the side of a dam and into the water below, as he and his son, Little Brian (Leo Abelo Perry), race to escape a trap set by the villainous Dante (Jason Momoa), who arms a series of bombs. Then the movie cuts to black.

Two credit scenes follow, teasing the mind-boggling returns of Dwayne Johnson’s Hobbs and Gal Gadot‘s Gisele.

Before “Fast X” hit theaters, Universal tapped director Louis Leterrier (“The Transporter”) to helm the next half of the two-part saga, with Christina Hodson (“The Flash,” “Bumblebee”) and Oren Uziel (“The Lost City,” “22 Jump Street”) to co-write the screenplay.

The pic is the 11th and last movie in the 25-year-old franchise and 12th including Hobbs & Shaw. 

Over the 5 years between the two entries, Diesel has teased things about the next installment including a comment at last year's Fuel Fest saying that the next film would “return to the car culture, to the street racing.”