Ideas about Fast & Furious and related media continuities (Updated)

[The_EG_Zilla]

Fast & Furious Speculated Diesel-Verse (Updated):

1922-1929: The Great Gatsby (2013)

~Early 1970s: Untitled prequel about Jack Toretto

1989: F9: The Fast Saga (flashback sequences)

1991: Better Luck Tomorrow

1995: Romeo + Juliet (1996)

2002: The Fast and The Furious

2002: Turbo Charged Prelude

2003: The Italian Job (Remake)

2004: 2 Fast 2 Furious

2005/2006: Annapolis

2007: Los Bandoleros, Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (opening scene)

Between 2007 and 2014 (presumably 2008/2009): Wanted

2014: Fast Five (main events), Fast X (flashback opening scene)

2015: Fast & Furious: Showdown, Fast & Furious 6 (opening scene)

2016: Fast & Furious 6 (main events)

2018: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious 6 (mid credits scene)

2019: Furious 7

2020: The Fate of the Furious

2021: Fast & Furious Crossroads

2021-2023???: Fast & Furious Spy Racers

2022: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

2023: F9: The Fast Saga (main events)

2025: Fast X (main events), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs v Reyes

Some point in/after 2025: Fast X2, Fast & Furious Presents: The American Job

 

[Jamesctl]

Fast & Furious Speculated Diesel-Verse (Updated):

1922-1929: The Great Gatsby (2013)

~Early 1970s: Untitled prequel about Jack Toretto

1989: F9: The Fast Saga (flashback sequences)

1991: Better Luck Tomorrow

1995: Romeo + Juliet (1996)

2002: The Fast and The Furious

2002: Turbo Charged Prelude

2003: The Italian Job (Remake)

2004: 2 Fast 2 Furious

2005/2006: Annapolis

2007: Los Bandoleros, Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (opening scene)

Between 2007 and 2014 (presumably 2008/2009): Wanted

2014: Fast Five (main events), Fast X (flashback opening scene)

2015: Fast & Furious: Showdown, Fast & Furious 6 (opening scene)

2016: Fast & Furious 6 (main events)

2018: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious 6 (mid credits scene)

2019: Furious 7

2020: The Fate of the Furious

2021: Fast & Furious Crossroads

2021-2023???: Fast & Furious Spy Racers

2022: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

2023: F9: The Fast Saga (main events)

2025: Fast X (main events), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs v Reyes

Some point in/after 2025: Fast X2, Fast & Furious Presents: The American Job

I researched one of the films in your timeline and learned that it is part of a trilogy. The films — Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, and Moulin Rouge! — are known as 'The Red Curtain Trilogy.'

 

[Pro Bot]

There's a 2001 date in Better Luck Tomorrow.

 

[beyondrain2]

Fast & Furious Speculated Diesel-Verse (Updated):

1922-1929: The Great Gatsby (2013)

~Early 1970s: Untitled prequel about Jack Toretto

1989: F9: The Fast Saga (flashback sequences)

1991: Better Luck Tomorrow

1995: Romeo + Juliet (1996)

2002: The Fast and The Furious

2002: Turbo Charged Prelude

2003: The Italian Job (Remake)

2004: 2 Fast 2 Furious

2005/2006: Annapolis

2007: Los Bandoleros, Fast & Furious (2009), Fast Five (opening scene)

Between 2007 and 2014 (presumably 2008/2009): Wanted

2014: Fast Five (main events), Fast X (flashback opening scene)

2015: Fast & Furious: Showdown, Fast & Furious 6 (opening scene)

2016: Fast & Furious 6 (main events)

2018: The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Fast & Furious 6 (mid credits scene)

2019: Furious 7

2020: The Fate of the Furious

2021: Fast & Furious Crossroads

2021-2023???: Fast & Furious Spy Racers

2022: Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

2023: F9: The Fast Saga (main events)

2025: Fast X (main events), Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs v Reyes

Some point in/after 2025: Fast X2, Fast & Furious Presents: The American Job

What's the connection between Annapolis and F&F?

 

[Pro Bot]

They both feature characters from Better Luck Tomorrow.

 

[barryh]

They both feature characters from Better Luck Tomorrow.

Annapolis also features Tyrese Gibson, Jim Parrack, Brian Goodman, Jordana Brewster, McCaleb Burnett, Wilmer Calderon, Lasco Atkins and Zachery Ty Bryan etc. playing different characters, so I don't think it fits in the F&F universe. Maybe a branched timeline

 

[Pro Bot]

Actors can play multiple characters in the same universe. Tarratinoverse, View Askewniverse, MCU, Kingsman, etc.

 

[barryh]

Annapolis/Interview with Roger Fan

Actor Roger Fan used to perform in San Diego as part of the Asian American Repertory Theater. Now he returns to San Diego to promote his role in the Hollywood film, Annapolis (opening January 27 throughout San Diego). The film is directed by Justin Lin who briefly attended UCSD before graduating...

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"BA: Now the character name that you changed it to, wasnt that the name of your character in Better Luck Tomorrow?

RF: [laughs] That was sort of an inside joke. I cant believe you picked up on that. I was sworn to secrecy that I wouldnt say it but you know what, it was funny because we were sitting around going how funny would it be if Daric Loo got away with murder from Better Luck Tomorrow and where did he go to college? He went to the naval academy. Inside joke. Different characters though. My character Loo in Annapolis doesnt have psychopathic homicidal tendencies."

 

[Pro Bot]

I saw that. It was later confirmed otherwise. I believe on the first few pages of Timeline Discussions you can find it.

 

[Pro Bot]

Of all the characters from Better Luck Tomorrow, why Han to bring to the Fast & Furious world?
"It just felt appropriate you know, and the rooftop scene really is, eh, is the connection scene to Better Luck Tomorrow you know, and it's just something that felt very organic, erm, if you actually watch Annapolis, the Roger Fan character actually went to annapolis so we had like, we were gonna work on all the characters somewhere-somewhere in all my films."

 

[Pro Bot]

I personally believe the director is more trustworthy than the actor.

 

[Pro Bot]

Maybe a branched timeline

You see, with that logic, Argylle is a branched timeline to Kingsman because Sam Jackson plays a different guy. I'm not even going to bother listing all of Sam Jackson's characters in Tarratino films, or Ben Affleck in the View Askewniverse, or the MCU reusing actors. I don't agree with the interpretation that using the same actor for a different character means that it can't be the same universe.

 

[barryh]

Of all the characters from Better Luck Tomorrow, why Han to bring to the Fast & Furious world?
"It just felt appropriate you know, and the rooftop scene really is, eh, is the connection scene to Better Luck Tomorrow you know, and it's just something that felt very organic, erm, if you actually watch Annapolis, the Roger Fan character actually went to annapolis so we had like, we were gonna work on all the characters somewhere-somewhere in all my films."

I doubt the F&F franchise's other directors/writers/ producers knew about it. I guess I can accept Annapolis continues from Better Luck Tomorrow, but I don't think that necessarily makes Lin's navy boxing movie canon to F&F.

 

[Pro Bot]

Isn't it just redundant to separate it from F&F but not Better Luck Tomorrow? That seems massively redundant. Let me repeat, actors can play multiple characters in the same universe. If you disagree with this sentiment, then that conflicts with many other pieces of fiction. Since that is possible, you have to prove that actors can't play multiple characters. Since they can and have and will continue to do so, Annapolis being canon to Better Luck Tomorrow makes it canon to Fast & Furious, as that is far less convoluted than having a separate continuation when the director simply implies one Better Luck Tomorrow universe where his character's stories are continued in other movies.