<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Official website </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> http://www.fastandfurious.com/ </Td> </Tr> <P> The Fast and the Furious (colloquial: Fast & Furious) is an American franchise based on a series of action films that is largely concerned with illegal street racing, heists and espionage, and includes material in various other media that depicts characters and situations from the films . Distributed by Universal Pictures, the series was established with the 2001 film titled The Fast and the Furious; this was followed by seven sequels, two short films that tie into the series, and as of May 2017, it has become Universal's biggest franchise of all time, currently the sixth - highest - grossing film series of all time with a combined gross of over $5 billion . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Film </Th> <Th> Release date </Th> <Th> Director </Th> <Th> Screenwriter (s) </Th> <Th> Story by </Th> <Th> Producers </Th> <Th> Status </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> The Fast and the Furious </Th> <Td> June 22, 2001 (2001 - 06 - 22) </Td> <Td> Rob Cohen </Td> <Td> Gary Scott Thompson, Erik Bergquist & David Ayer </Td> <Td> Gary Scott Thompson </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz </Td> <Td> Released </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 2 Fast 2 Furious </Th> <Td> June 6, 2003 (2003 - 06 - 06) </Td> <Td> John Singleton </Td> <Td> Michael Brandt & Derek Haas </Td> <Td> Gary Scott Thompson, Michael Brandt & Derek Haas </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift </Th> <Td> June 16, 2006 (2006 - 06 - 16) </Td> <Td> Justin Lin </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> Chris Morgan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fast & Furious </Th> <Td> April 3, 2009 (2009 - 04 - 03) </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Michael K Ross, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fast Five </Th> <Td> April 29, 2011 (2011 - 04 - 29) </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fast & Furious 6 </Th> <Td> May 24, 2013 (2013 - 05 - 24) </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Clayton Townsend </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Furious 7 </Th> <Td> April 3, 2015 (2015 - 04 - 03) </Td> <Td> James Wan </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> The Fate of the Furious </Th> <Td> April 14, 2017 (2017 - 04 - 14) </Td> <Td> F. Gary Gray </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell and Chris Morgan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Hobbs & Shaw </Th> <Td> August 2, 2019 (2019 - 08 - 02) </Td> <Td> David Leitch </Td> <Td> Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia & Hiram Garcia </Td> <Td> Pre-production </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Untitled film </Th> <Td> April 10, 2020 (2020 - 04 - 10) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> Daniel Casey </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell and Chris Morgan </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Untitled film </Th> <Td> April 2, 2021 (2021 - 04 - 02) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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