Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson will return as Agent Luke Hobbs in a new ‘Fast and Furious’ stand-alone film, confirming the end of his feud with Vin Diesel.
Make sure you’ve got your thunderwear on: Dwayne Johnson has squashed his long-standing beef with Vin Diesel and says that Luke Hobbs will indeed be back for a new “Fast & Furious” stand-alone film.
After a surprise Easter egg at the end of last month’s “Fast X,” Universal Pictures announced the untitled project Thursday, with the action franchise’s past writer-producer Chris Morgan behind the new spinoff’s script, per the Hollywood Reporter. And shortly after, Johnson, who in 2021 vowed to never return to the muscle-car saga, confirmed his change of heart from a lanai in Hawaii.
“Hobbs is Back! And he just got lei’d,” the “Hobbs & Shaw” and “Black Adam” star said in a video posted to Instagram. The Rock also addressed the years-long beef that has played out through not-so-cryptic social media posts and interviews between him and his “Fast” and “Fast & Furious 6” co-star Diesel. (Johnson traded barbs with Diesel on Instagram in 2016 and in 2021 told CNN that his former co-star was manipulative.)
But they’ve since left that drama in the dust.
