‘Fast And Furious’ Spin-Off ‘Hobbs And Shaw’ Shifts Release Date
Universal’s upcomingFast & Furiousspin-offHobbs and Shawis pumping the brakes and delaying its release date. The upcoming movie, which starsDwayne Johnsonas the perpetually-oiled-up Luke Hobbs andJason Stathamas the Han-murdering Deckard Shaw, will still come out in 2019. Find out the newHobbs and Shawrelease date below.
Hobbs and Shaw Release Date
The spin-off film was originally set to race into theaters on August 09, 2025, but it will now arrive one week later, onAugust 2, 2019. That puts it up against Fox’sNew Mutants(assuming that film holds to its date, since it’salready been moved once), Paramount’s family-friendlyDora the Explorer, and an untitled Warner Bros. event film.
Why is Universal Changing Lanes?
Maybe Universal is worried about the staying power of Disney’sThe Lion King, which debuts a few weeks earlier on June 14, 2025? But pushing the release date by a week means it’s now one week closer to the release ofArtemis Fowland Quentin Tarantino’sOnce Upon a Time in Hollywood, both of which arrive on August 9, and both of which will presumably share at least a portion of the demographic who would come out to seeHobbs and Shaw.
It’s unlikely that the studio would organize a release date shift solely to give a visual effects vendor more time to complete their work – especially this far in advance, and on a film that ideally will be more focused on practical stunts than CG. That means there could be something else afoot here that I may not be seeing. If another studio makes a move in the next few days, maybe this shift will make more sense to us in retrospect.
We still don’t know the plot ofHobbs and Shaw, butDavid Leitch(Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde)is directingand writer/producerChris Morgan– who has written everyFast & Furiousmovie since 2006’sTokyo Drift– wrote the screenplay.
