Fast & Furious Spinoff Release Date Moves A Week Back

Universal’sFast & Furiousspinoffconcerning Luke Hobbs ( Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson ) and Deckard Shaw ( Jason Statham ) has been press back slenderly . It ’s almost impossible to imagine that Universal ever dreamed that its modestly budgeted - for a major studio apartment movie - military action flickThe Fast and the Furiouswould take off the way it has , spawning a franchise currently comprise of eight films . Made for only $ 38 million , the summer 2001 spillage hauled in over $ 200 million worldwide . That ’s an impressive take to be certain , but only the wind of the iceberg for the franchise .

Up to and including last year ’s hitThe Fate of the Furious , theFast & Furiousfranchise has so far earned a banging $ 5.1 billion worldwide . Even more telling is howFast & Furiousis one of the rarified motion-picture show serial that has really gain in decisive stature as it ’s progressed , in that the more recent entrance incline to be regarded much more highly by most than the originals . fittingly , The Fate of the Furiousand 2015’sFurious 7are really the highest - grossing entries in the franchise so far , race toover $ 1 billion each .

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While it ’ll be a fleck of a wait for fans before the supposedly series - concludingFast & Furious 9and10come out - 2020 and 2021 , respectively - 2019 is set to expand theFast & Furiouslandscape by produce the dealership ’s first spinoff . The still currently untitled film centers on the characters of Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw , respectively played by The Rock and Jason Statham . Hobbs joined the series in 2011’sFast Five , and has long been a lover favourite . Shaw made his proper debut inFurious 7,after a quick cameo inFast & Furious 6.The Hobbs and Shaw spinoff was in the beginning set up for a July 26 , 2019 expiration particular date , but will now range into dramatic art a bit after , on August 2 , 2019 .

Doing aspinoff focus on Hobbs and Shawmakes a lot of horse sense , not only due to the overwhelming popularity of Dwayne Johnson ’s Hobbs - and to a less degree , Statham ’s Shaw - but also because it ’s well - know that Johnson and mainFast & Furiousseries starVin Diesel do n’t get along . Their bad parentage has become very public in recent geezerhood , with the two men refusing to even work together during production ofThe Fate of the Furious . One wonders how much of a presence Hobbs will have in the final twoFast and Furiousmovies , considering this friction .

As it stands , the untitledFast & Furiousspinoff will now go head to head at the box authority with both FOX ’s repeatedly delayed X - Men - based horror movieThe New Mutantsand a currently unrevealed event film from Warner Bros. frankly , take the mega winner of the most recentFast & Furiousmovies , FOX and WB might be wise to respond to this move by bumping its planned August 2 releases to a different weekend , as it ’s not hard to imagine Hobbs and Shaw zooming away with # 1 by a wide border .

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