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The official trailer for Fast & Furious 9 has arrived. Universal's street car racing-turned globe-trotting action franchise has grown into a full-fledged universe over the past 12 months, between the spinoff Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw hitting theaters and animated series Fast & Furious: Spy Racers streaming on Netflix. Of course, the core films are still the main attraction and will return this May with F9 aka. Fast & Furious 9. Series veteran Justin Lin is back at the helm for this new installment, with Vin Diesel once again starring as Dominic Toretto.

Universal kicked off its Fast & Furious 9 marketing this week, releasing an official poster, multiple character one-sheets, and even a teaser featuring Dom in full-on dad mode, raising his son Brian with Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) on the newly-established Toretto family farm. It's all been leading up to today's trailer unveiling, which is taking place as part of a live concert event in Miami. Finally, after all that build-up, the footage has been made available online.

For those who missed the live-stream earlier today, you can check out the full-length Fast & Furious 9 trailer in the space below.

Obviously, the two biggest takeaways from this trailer are 1) John Cena - making his Fast & Furious debut - is playing Dom's little brother, a "master thief, assassin, high-performance driver" (as Roman describes him), and 2) Han Seoul-Oh (Sung Kang) is back from the dead after seemingly being murdered by Jason Statham's Luke Hobbs in the Fast & Furious 6 mid-credits scene (or, if you prefer, during Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift - the Fast & Furious timeline is complicated). These types of soap opera-style twists have become the bread and butter of The Fast Saga over the last ten years, going back to Letty's own return from the dead in Fast Five's own post-credits stinger. And as far are ways of getting Justice For Han go, well, this is certainly a promising way to go about that task.

Other highlights here include Charlize Theron, who's back as the sinister cyber-terrorist Cipher and pulling the strings on Cena's character Jakob (to mention nothing of the "magnet plane" at her disposal). Fast & Furious 9 already feels more narratively focused than 2017's The Fate of the Furious did and its "Dom has an evil brother" premise already sounds a good deal more promising than the latter's "Dom is a villain" setup (something few, if anybody, thought would actually stick in the movie itself). Fingers crossed, the film will prove to be an excellent addition to this sprawling tale of family, friends, and extremely fast cars (among other vehicles).

F9/Fast & Furious 9 (2020)
Release Date: May 22, 2020

John Cena? Scraping the bottom of the barrel these days...

Why isn't Dwayne Johnson not in the movie?