<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Official website </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Official website </Td> </Tr> <P> The Fast and the Furious (colloquial: Fast & Furious) is an American media 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 eighth - 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 and Erik Bergquist and 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> Michael Brandt & Derek Haas and Gary Scott Thompson </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, Vin Diesel and Michael Fottrell </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fast Five </Th> <Td> April 29, 2011 (2011 - 04 - 29) </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> Neal H. Moritz and Hiram Garcia </Td> <Td> Filming </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fast & Furious 9 </Th> <Td> April 10, 2020 (2020 - 04 - 10) </Td> <Td> Justin Lin </Td> <Td_colspan="2"> Chris Morgan, Daniel Casey </Td> <Td> Neal H. Moritz, Vin Diesel, Michael Fottrell and Chris Morgan </Td> <Td> Pre-production </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Fast & Furious 10 </Th> <Td> April 2, 2021 (2021 - 04 - 02) </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> <Td> TBA </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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