The final installment of the Fast & Furious franchise is reportedly dialing things way back. According to insiders, the movie will feature the crew using $500,000 modified cars to hijack trucks carrying $600 PS5 consoles. It’s a deliberate pivot away from the franchise’s recent detours into international espionage, space travel, and the kind of physics-defying stunts that made the later films feel less like street racing and more like superhero movies.
Production sources say the team behind the blockbuster wanted to return to the humble charms of the original film. That meant ditching the submarine launches and runway landings for something a little more grounded — even if the vehicles involved are anything but.
Back to basics, sort of
Before settling on the PlayStation 5 heist, the creative team reportedly kicked around a few other ideas. One involved Toretto and company starting a restomod business doing old 911s. Another pitched them destroying a town’s sinister EV charging network. A third had them attempting to turn the cabin temperature down using a modern touchscreen. The room eventually landed on stealing today’s must-have tech instead.
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“This whole thing has gotten a little out of hand of late, no?” an insider close to production said. “Swinging across ravines in two-tonne cars, endless runways that unfold before you like the very fabric of the universe, towing bank vaults through congested city streets using super strong cables, the whole ‘space’ thing and… well, yeah. You get it.”
The same insider admitted the franchise has struggled to pull back from its own excess. “We’ve been desperate to bring it right back to its roots, but people kept lapping up stuff like a car jumping through skyscrapers or obscenely muscled adult men simply shrugging off fatal beat downs using garage tools and heavy concrete.”
Why PS5s, and why now
There’s a practical reason for the console switch. “Now’s the time – God, let it be time – to rein it all in. Thing is, today’s audience doesn’t understand what a ‘DVD’ is, let alone a DVD player, so we’ll do the modern equivalent, but pay homage to the original movie by using insanely modified and already expensive cars to do so.”
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That homage comes with a twist. Rather than simply blocking a road, the crew will deploy what the insider described as a “really convoluted method” of bringing down the trucks. Parts are expensive now, apparently because of inflation — a detail the filmmakers think will resonate. So the team has to steal multiple trucks loaded with PS5s. That’s not enough, though. They then break into a factory that makes the consoles, only to steal the entire building using modified bulldozers.
The plot, as described, doesn’t stop there. The building turns out to be a government test facility for an AI army. The team takes on a million humanoid robots using their fists and quips like “how you do like them piston rings.” The robots merge into a giant off-road troop carrier, escape, and take over the country. Dom and crew then head to outer space, destroy the robots with a souped-up laser from the International Space Station, and everything explodes until nobody is left. Then they’re brought back in slow motion wearing evening wear.
It’s a lot. But the insider’s own summary suggests the franchise may still be wrestling with how far to go. “Oh, right,” they sighed. “Maybe we just watch them restore an old Nissan for two hours? But only using guns and headbutts?”
