Is Cristiano Ronaldo joining the Fast & Furious family? Possibly so.
Vin Diesel, the star and a producer of the beloved car franchise, teased the professional soccer player’s involvement in the upcoming planned finale film on Instagram Friday. The two posed for a photo together, both dishing out thumbs ups, as the actor shared that he created a role for Ronaldo.
“Everyone asked, would he be in the Fast mythology… I gotta tell you he is a real one,” Diesel captioned the post. “We wrote a role for him…”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Diesel and Ronaldo’s teams for comment, but did not hear back by the time of publication.
While it hasn’t been officially confirmed that the soccer star will appear in the 11th Fast movie, Diesel recently said that Paul Walker’s character Brian O’Conner may pop up in the film. At Fuel Fest in June, he revealed the movie will be released in April 2027, a release time he agreed upon with Universal Studios “under three conditions.”
“Just yesterday I was with Universal Studios. … The studio said to me, ‘Vin, can we please have the finale of Fast & Furious [in] April 2027?’ I said, ‘Under three conditions because I’ve been listening to my fan base,’” he explained, noting that he wanted the franchise to return to Los Angeles, “return to the car culture, to the street racing” and also reunite his and Walker’s characters onscreen.
“The third thing was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner,” Diesel said. “That is what you’re going to get in the finale.”
Walker died on Nov. 30, 2013 in a car accident. At the time, he was shooting for Fast & Furious 7, and not all of his scenes were finished. However, Walker’s Brian was able to appear in the final scene of the movie using CGI, VFX artists and his two brothers, Cody and Caleb Walker, to create 350 shots.
The last scene of Fast & Furious 7 saw Diesel’s Dominic Toretto and Walker’s Brian have a final moment together in their cars before driving off in separate directions. VFX supervisor Joe Letteri explained to THR how they executed the scene through CGI, VFX and Walker’s brothers, further acknowledging the weight of the moment.
“There really wasn’t room to let anything slip. It was too important to complete the story in respect to Paul’s memory — to make sure that when you watched it, you didn’t think about any of the work that we did,” he said. “If you were a fan, you were watching Paul’s performance and saying goodbye.”
