EXCLUSIVE: Vin Diesel made big news at the NBCUniversal Upfront on Monday when he revealed that Peacock was developing not one, but four series in the Fast & Furious universe.
The first series in the works at the NBCU streamer, from Universal Television, comes from Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman.
Deadline understands that the auspices for the other three series are Nick Wootton and Charmaine DeGraté, Ingrid Escajeda and Joe Henderson.
We hear that these writers have been working on different scripts that are in the works for Peacock and all come from sister studio Universal Television. There is, however, no bake-off and the plan is for the streamer to evaluate each series before making a decision. This could mean that it picks up one or all four series if it likes the projects.
It’s somewhat similar to HBO’s approach to Game of Thrones spinoffs, which have resulted in series such as House of the Dragon and A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.
There are no details about the four series, but clearly all exist in the world of the action franchise, which features street racing, heists, spies and even space.
Wootton and DeGraté are working on one of the projects together. Wootton is the exec producer of NBC’s The Endgame and has worked on Law & Order and NYPD Blue. DeGraté has written and produced series including Amazon’s Daisy Jones & The Six and House of the Dragon as well as The Acolyte, one of the few people to work in both the GoT and Star Wars, and now Fast & Furious, franchises.
The other two series are from Ingrid Escajeda and Joe Henderson.
Escajeda is the showrunner of Netflix’s Griselda and exec produced Apple’s Silo. Henderson was the showrunner of Lucifer and has worked on series including White Collar and Almost Human.
Diesel will exec produce the series with Samantha Vincent (One Race), Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty (Original Film), Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan.
“As you all know, we are very precious about these movies but over the last decade, we’ve realized that the fans have wanted more, they wanted us to expand the legacy characters, their stories,” he said at the Upfront. “And for the last decade, the desire has been for us to enter the TV space.”
Diesel said he came around on the idea after Universal Studios chief Donna Langley also took oversight of NBCUniversal’s TV operation last year.
“That’s when I knew that the integrity of the characters, the international appeal, what makes us all feel like family will be protected in the TV space,” he added.
All of this comes ahead of the Fast Forever, which will debut on March 17, 2028.
