Fast & Furious 8 gets official release date

    24 April 2015



Fast and the Furious franchise producer Neal H. Moritz only just promised that news about Fast & Furious 8 would be coming soon - turns out, he meant "today".

Vin Diesel was present at the Univeral Pictures panel at the ongoing 2015 CinemaCon in Las Vegas, when the announcement was made that the eighth Fast and the Furious movie will be opening in theaters in 2017. An official title for the project has not been settled on just yet, though this franchise has frequently mixed things up with its titles (see: 2 Fast 2 Furious, Fast Five, Furious Seven) - so odds are this new film won`t just be called Fast & Furious 8, either.br>
Fast & Furious 8 is now scheduled to open in theaters on April 14th, 2017 - very close to two years exactly after Furious 7 bowed in theaters, smashing box office records along the way.

The date for Fast & Furious 8 does lend support to the previous report that Justin Lin (director of four Fast and the Furious movies to date) is being courted to return for Furious 8 - possibly, directing both it and Furious 9 to conclude the third Furious film trilogy (as well as the Fast and the Furious movie franchise). Lin will begin production on Star Trek 3 within a month or two for a Summer 2016 release; the way things are going, he may well be available to work on Furious 8 thereafter.

Here`s what we know and/or have heard rumored about Fast & Furious 8 (which, presumably, Fast and the Furious franchise scribe Chris Morgan will pen) thus far:

The story will at least partially take place in New York.
Kurt Russell`s "Mr. Nobody" will return in an expanded role, as Dom and his crew get pulled deeper into the world of shadowy government officials and covert operations to stop mercenaries and terrorists-for-profit (introduced in Furious 6 and further developed in Furious 7).
Since the U.S. government will continue to play a role in the proceedings, Eva Mendes as Agent Fuentes may return to the fold.
Lucas Black, who reprised as Sean Boswell briefly in Furious 7, may well join Dom`s team, seeing as Black is reportedly already contracted for two more Fast & Furious movies.

Furious 7 is now playing in theaters. Fast & Furious 8 hits theaters on April 14th, 2017.

Source Screenrant