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EXCLUSIVE: Vin Diesel made large news astatine nan NBCUniversal Upfront connected Monday erstwhile he revealed that Peacock was processing not one, but 4 bid successful the Fast & Furious universe.
The first series successful nan useful astatine nan NBCU streamer, from Universal Television, comes from Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman.
Deadline understands that nan auspices for nan different 3 bid are Nick Wootton and Charmaine DeGraté, Ingrid Escajeda and Joe Henderson.
We perceive that these writers person been moving connected different scripts that are successful nan useful for Peacock and each travel from sister workplace Universal Television. There is, however, nary bake-off and nan scheme is for nan streamer to measure each bid earlier making a decision. This could mean that it picks up 1 aliases each 4 bid if it likes nan projects.
It’s somewhat akin to HBO’s attack to Game of Thrones spinoffs, which person resulted successful bid specified arsenic House of nan Dragon and A Knight of nan Seven Kingdoms.
There are nary specifications astir nan 4 series, but intelligibly each beryllium successful nan world of nan action franchise, which features thoroughfare racing, heists, spies and moreover space.
Wootton and DeGraté are moving connected 1 of nan projects together. Wootton is nan exec shaper of NBC’s The Endgame and has worked connected Law & Order and NYPD Blue. DeGraté has written and produced bid including Amazon’s Daisy Jones & The Six and House of nan Dragon as good as The Acolyte, 1 of nan fewer group to activity successful some nan GoT and Star Wars, and now Fast & Furious, franchises.
The different 2 bid are from Ingrid Escajeda and Joe Henderson.
Escajeda is nan showrunner of Netflix’s Griselda and exec produced Apple’s Silo. Henderson was nan showrunner of Lucifer and has worked connected bid including White Collar and Almost Human.
Diesel will exec nutrient nan bid pinch Samantha Vincent (One Race), Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty (Original Film), Jeff Kirschenbaum and Chris Morgan.
“As you each know, we are very precious astir these movies but complete nan past decade, we’ve realized that nan fans person wanted more, they wanted america to grow nan bequest characters, their stories,” he said astatine nan Upfront. “And for nan past decade, nan desire has been for america to participate nan TV space.”
Diesel said he came astir connected nan thought aft Universal Studios main Donna Langley besides took oversight of NBCUniversal’s TV cognition past year.
“That’s erstwhile I knew that nan integrity of nan characters, nan world appeal, what makes america each consciousness for illustration family will beryllium protected successful nan TV space,” he added.
All of this comes up of nan Fast Forever, which will debut connected March 17, 2028.
