In London, Dom meets Deckard and Owen Shaw's mother Queenie, who gives him Jakob's location. Roman and Tej recruit Sean Boswell, Twinkie, and Earl Hu, who have been working on a "rocket car".
In Tokyo, Letty and Mia find a still-alive Han, along with his ward, Elle. Dom meets his father's former mechanic, Buddy, who took Jakob in after his exile, and learns that Jakob is in London. Cipher, who is being held at their base, tells Jakob that the other half of Aries is in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, Jakob meets with Otto, his associate and financier. The team learns that Han Lue is connected to Project Aries, and Letty and Mia go to Tokyo to investigate.
Dom's sister Mia arrives to help, and Dom reluctantly allows her to join them. The team is then ambushed by a private army led by Jakob, who steals the device Michael Stasiak helps Dom's crew escape to their safe house. Searching the plane, they find part of a device named Project Aries, which can hack into any computer-controlled system. Dom agrees to help them after realizing Jakob is involved. Nobody's plane was attacked by rogue agents, who abducted Cipher, and crashed in Montequinto, Central America. Roman Pearce, Tej Parker, and Ramsey arrive with news that, shortly after arresting Cipher, Mr. In 2019, two years after the confrontation against cyberterrorist Cipher, Dom is retired and raising his son Brian with his wife, Letty Ortiz. Upon release, Dom confronts and challenges Jakob to a race, forcing him to leave town when he loses. While serving his sentence, he recalls that Jakob had worked on their father's car the day he died and concludes that Jakob killed their father. A week after, Dom is arrested for beating Linder to near death. During the race, Linder's car clips Jack's bumper, causing his car to crash and burn, killing him. Dom argues with rival racer Kenny Linder about his dirty tactics. In 1989, Jack Toretto - father of Dom, Jakob and Mia - participates in a late model race, with his sons working in the pit crew. F9 set several pandemic box office records and grossed over $726 million worldwide, becoming the fifth highest-grossing film of 2021.Ī sequel is set to be released on May 19, 2023. The film received mixed to positive reviews with praise for the stunts and Lin's direction, but criticism for its unrealistic action sequences and formulaic script. It premiered in South Korea and release international on May 19, 2021, and in the United States on June 25.
The cast was finalized with the addition of Cena in June 2019 and principal photography began that same month and lasted until that November, with filming locations including London, Los Angeles, Tbilisi, and Thailand.į9 was originally scheduled for worldwide release by Universal Pictures on April 19, 2019, but was delayed several times, first due to the release of Hobbs & Shaw (2019) and planned release of Eon Productions's No Time to Die (2021), and then the COVID-19 pandemic. F9 is the first film in the franchise since The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (2006) not written by Chris Morgan. With a ninth film planned since 2014, Lin was confirmed as director in October 2017, returning to the franchise since last directing Fast & Furious 6 (2013). In F9, Dominic Toretto and the team come together to stop a world-shattering plot headed by Toretto's brother, Jakob. The film stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, John Cena, Nathalie Emmanuel, Jordana Brewster, Sung Kang, Michael Rooker, Helen Mirren, Kurt Russell, and Charlize Theron. It is the sequel to The Fate of the Furious (2017), the ninth main installment, and the tenth full-length film in the Fast & Furious franchise. F9 (also known as F9: The Fast Saga and internationally as Fast & Furious 9) is a 2021 American action film directed by Justin Lin from a screenplay by Daniel Casey and Lin.