“For more than 100 years, there’s one place where we all came together to be entertained, to escape, to go somewhere new: the movies.” These wise words from Vin Diesel reminded fans what a true movie star looked like in 2021, a year when the very future of movies itself was in question. (It also sparked plenty of memes and an SNL parody.)
But at NBCU’s Upfronts presentation, Vin Diesel was singing a different song when he announced that the Fast and Furious franchise, which now spans more than 10 different movies, will now be moving to TV in a big way. That’s certainly exciting, but does it come at the expense of, to quote the man himself, “the movies”?
