Universal Pictures, the studio behind the “Fast & Furious” franchise, had no comment on the news.
The announcement comes after news broke that a spinoff film featuring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham’s characters is scheduled to be released in 2019 and that “Fast and Furious 9” would be delayed a year from 2019 to 2020. “Like any vehicle that has run around the globe 8 times, the franchise is in need of maintenance,” Diesel wrote in a post on Instagram. “My