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Old 04-23-18, 01:10 PM
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Fast & Furious: Spy Racers — Netflix Animated Series

An animated Fast & Furious series is headed to Netflix. It is the first series in an expansion of an ongoing multi-year deal between Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television for original animated kids and family programming. The expansion, following Comcast-NBCUniversal’s acquisition of the animation studio, includes a first look at DreamWorks Animation animated series based on Universal film properties. First off is Fast & Furious, based on Universal’s multi-billion dollar franchise. The series is executive produced by Vin Diesel, Neal Moritz and Chris Morgan, producers on the live-action movies. DreamWorks will also continue creating series based on original and acquired IP.

In the Fast & Furious animated series, teenager Tony Toretto follows in the footsteps of his cousin Dom when he and his friends are recruited by a government agency to infiltrate an elite racing league serving as a front for a nefarious crime organization bent on world domination. Tim Hedrick (DreamWorks Voltron Legendary Defender) and Bret Haaland (All Hail King Julien) will serve as executive producers and showrunners.

“We are thrilled to take our fantastic partnership with DreamWorks Animation to the next level with new opportunities from the vast library of Universal Pictures,” said Melissa Cobb, Netflix’s VP of Kids and Family. “The Fast & Furious franchise is a global phenomenon beloved by audiences of all ages, and we can’t wait to get started on the new animated series that will capture the action, heart, humor and global appeal of the feature films.”
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I don't know about this. The F&F franchise took a big turn when they went from being about fast cars and on the run from the police to working for the government as it was. Then Paul died unexpectedly and they had to write his character out of the show. Then they brought in Hobbs & Shaw and now are delaying the 9th movie so they can push out a spin-off featuring them... And now we're getting an animated cartoon series on Netflix featuring a Dom's cousin Tony, when aside from Dom's sister, and the stories of his dad, we've seen/heard nothing from any family. And it sounds like the "cousin" is recruited by the government to do pretty much exactly what the main team is already doing. So it's just going to be more of the same, with different characters and animated.
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What the holy fuck with that synopsis. Why not just make a series with the OG characters in the same world and just expand on the stories? This is just stupid, really.
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Sounds like M.A.S.K. without the transforming cars.
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Originally Posted by Koby
I don't know about this. The F&F franchise took a big turn when they went from being about fast cars and on the run from the police to working for the government as it was. Then Paul died unexpectedly and they had to write his character out of the show. Then they brought in Hobbs & Shaw and now are delaying the 9th movie so they can push out a spin-off featuring them... And now we're getting an animated cartoon series on Netflix featuring a Dom's cousin Tony, when aside from Dom's sister, and the stories of his dad, we've seen/heard nothing from any family. And it sounds like the "cousin" is recruited by the government to do pretty much exactly what the main team is already doing. So it's just going to be more of the same, with different characters and animated.
Yeah, trying to tie it to Dom's family makes no sense.
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9 sequels was not enough so they have to do a cartoon.
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The franchise has made $5.1 billion worldwide, so let’s mess up the formula and do something totally different.


(The formula being releasing a movie every other year, to avoid franchise fatigue)
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I don't think an animated series will affect the movie business at all.
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This sounds dumb but if the cars are done right I'd give it a watch. It has to look better than Initial D.
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They sure monetize the shit out of this franchise.
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Re: Fast & Furious: Spy Racers — Netflix Animated Series

EW can exclusively reveal the cast and first look for Universal Pictures and DreamWorks Animation’s Fast & Furious: Spy Racers, which will feature Tyler Posey (Teen Wolf) as Dominic Toretto’s cousin Tony and Vin Diesel‘s own daughter Similce Diesel.

Executive produced by Fast masterminds Diesel, Neal H. Moritz, and Chris Morgan, Spy Racers follows the adventures of teenager Tony, who follows in his cousin’s footsteps when a government agency recruits he and his friends to infiltrate an elite racing league that is a front front for a crime organization bent on world domination. Rounding out the main crew of characters are notable underground racer Layla Gray (American Vandal’s Camille Ramsey), 13-year-old tech genius Frostee Benson (Harry Potter‘s Luke Youngblood), master artist and natural spy Echo (Overwatch‘s Charlet Chung), the group’s muscle and sweetheart Cisco Renaldo (Jane the Virgin’s Jorge Diaz), and leader of the criminal organization SH1FT3R, Shashi Dhar (The Resident‘s Manish Dayal).

Headlining the guest voice cast is Diesel’s oldest child, Similce, who plays Frostee’s younger sister Sissy. Also lending their voices are Renée Elise Goldsberry (Hamilton), Jimmy Tatro (American Vandal), Carlos Alazraqui (The Fairly OddParents), Eric Bauza (The Adventures of Puss in Boots), Grey Griffin (DC Super Hero Girls), Kevin Michael Richardson (Trolls: The Beat Goes On!), Fred Tatasciore (Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia), and Tru Valentino (Archibald’s Next Big Thing).
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