The Fast and the Furious is turning 25, and to celebrate, the cast is dropping some franchise updates.

After a buzzy midnight screening at Cannes earlier this year, Universal is keeping the party going for the 2001 movie that started it all, including re-releasing The Fast and the Furious in theaters and hosting a special event in L.A. on Monday.

Looking back at the Cannes screening, Michelle Rodriguez told The Hollywood Reporter that she was “in awe at all the love that we got,” joking it was particularly powerful “with the studio heads present.”

“Sometimes you fight over things [with the studio] that seem silly, like standing your ground on ethics or morals. From a studio perspective or from a broad macro perspective, it’s like ‘Oh these guys are just criminals, what do we care if they have morals?’” she explained. “We fight for you to understand that it’s not always back and white, there’s always a grey area, and life is like that. All those fights kind of felt worth it” seeing the fan reaction, and long standing ovation, in France.

And after 10 movies over the last two and half decades, there’s an 11th — and allegedly final — on the way, set for release in March 2028. Star and producer Vin Diesel has already publicly gushed about the film, titled Fast Forever, online, calling it “the best script I have read in decades. I am still crying.”

Rodriguez said she has not yet read the script, but “if I have any wish for the last one, it’s that they bring it back to the community because that community has kept us alive for 25 years; it’s a global community, and it has to do with cars, not this 007, bring your cars to space shit,” referencing a plot line from F9. “Let’s get back to what it all started as — an article in the paper about the race scene, let’s go back there.”

Jordana Brewster echoed that she’s talked to Diesel about the new movie but hasn’t seen the script, with hopes that “we kind of go back to L.A., that would be really cool.” And as for if this final movie will really be the end of the film franchise, Rodriguez said, “It’ll be maybe the last one for us; we’re like a bridge to another generation, we’re passing the baton on. But I don’t know, you talk to Vin and maybe it’ll never end.”

On top of Fast Forever, there is also at least one Fast & Furious TV series in works, which will expand on the legacy characters. Brewster said of the pivot to TV, “I so admire the Taylor Sheridan universe, so I feel like we can really do that with television too.” She already has a series pitch ready, suggesting that her and Paul Walker’s characters “have a son and a daughter so I’d love to follow their trajectory and see what hell it is to raise kids that have Mia’s genes, Brian’s genes and Dom’s genes.”

Jack Reynor will star opposite Lily James in Seasons, a horror thriller that Drew Hancock, the filmmaker behind Companion, is directing for Amazon MGM Studios.

The feature is heading to a production start in September and will shoot in Ireland.

On top of directing, Hancock wrote the script, adapting the book by Matt and Harrison Query, which in turn was based on a short story by Matt Query that first appeared on Reddit.

The story follows a husband and wife who buy their dream ranch only to discover the land is alive with ancient spirits, and survival means submitting to increasingly disturbing rituals with each turn of the season.

Reynor will play the husband with James as the wife.

Several horror heavy hitters are backing the project. Marking their third collaboration, 21 Laps and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, who most recently produced A24’s Backrooms, are producing the feature as is 12:01 Films, a horror banner that was one of the first to plant flags in the Reddit-as-movie-inspiration space.

Producing are 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy and Dan Levine; Blumhouse Atomic Monster’s Jason Blum and Michael Clear; and 12:01 Films’ Scott Glassgold. Dan Cohen, formerly of 21 Laps, will also produce.

Judson Scott is an executive producing for Blumhouse Atomic Monster, and Alayna Glasthal is the executive overseeing for the company. 

Reynor is coming off of starring in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, which Blumhouse Atomic Monster produced and which was released by New Line earlier this year. He was also seen in the second season of Prime Video’s spy drama Citadel and reteamed with his Sing Street director John Carney for Power Ballad, the musical comedy that starred Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas and was released by Lionsgate in the spring.

The actor, repped by WME, Range and Sloane Offer, will next be seen in the new season of Apple TV+’s Presumed Innocent as well Gareth Evans’ latest actionner, the remake of 1967 Yakuza crime movie A Colt is My Passport, for Amazon MGM Studios’ Orion Pictures.