Universal Pictures recently pushed the Fast & Furious sequel F9 back a full year to April 2, 2021 (the date when FF10 previously would have been released). Despite that delay, Dwayne Johnson took to his Instagram feed in a Live Q&A this week to confirm that Universal is indeed developing a sequel to last year’s spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & SHaw (Fresh at 67%). Johnson said of the sequel (we like to think of it as 2 Hobbs 2 Shaw), “Just gotta figure out the creative right now, and the direction we’re going to go.” Fast & Furious Presents:
Hobbs & Shaw earned over $759 million worldwide, which suggests there was an audience not only for the action movie chemistry between Johnson and co-star Jason Statham, but also for the “superhero movie” direction the film took. Having said that, Universal could easily switch things up with each new film, possibly taking on other action movie genres. The studio has not yet scheduled the second Hobbs & Shaw movie for release yet, but with all of the other delays going on these days, it likely won’t be before 2022.`