‘Fast & Furious’ Spinoff ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Finally Races Onto Hulu and Here’s When You Can Stream It

Fans of the ‘Fast & Furious‘ franchise have a fresh reason to clear their watchlist. Hobbs & Shaw is set to make its streaming debut, bringing Jason Statham’s Fast & Furious spin-off to Hulu.

The announcement comes at an interesting moment for the franchise, which is simultaneously expanding into new corners of the streaming world while its central film saga barrels toward a finale. Between a surprise Hulu arrival for one of its biggest spinoffs and news of a brand new television series in development, ‘Fast & Furious’ fans have plenty to track right now.

‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Hulu Streaming Date Revealed

The 2019 action film centers on the unlikely partnership between Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw as they face a dangerous new threat. Statham leads the cast, with Ryan Reynolds also appearing in the film. That pairing alone has made the movie a fan favorite in the years since its release, and now it is getting a proper streaming home.

According to Hulu Press, the film will begin streaming on September 14, 2026. David Leitch directed Hobbs & Shaw, a spin-off that serves as the ninth film in the Fast & Furious franchise, and it was released in U.S. theaters on August 2, 2019.

The plot still holds up as one of the more self contained entries in the series. The film centers on Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw, two characters with a history of conflict, who are forced to cooperate when Brixton Lore becomes a threat to humanity. Lore is a cybernetically enhanced soldier with extraordinary strength and intelligence, as well as a deadly pathogen capable of wiping out half of the world’s population.

It is worth noting that Hobbs & Shaw will not be the only high octane arrival on Hulu that month. Need For Speed, the Aaron Paul led movie often compared to ‘Fast & Furious,’ is racing towards Hulu and set to arrive on the platform on Sept. 1. Between the two titles, Hulu subscribers are getting a genuine crash course in vehicular action cinema this September.

‘Fast & Furious’ Franchise Expansion Beyond the Movies

The Hulu news lands right alongside a much bigger development for the franchise as a whole. Vin Diesel confirmed during NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation that a new Fast & Furious spin-off series is officially in development for Peacock. It marks the franchise’s first serious push into scripted live action television.

Diesel claimed four separate Fast & Furious shows are planned for Peacock, though it is reported only one series is currently moving forward officially, with Universal Television still evaluating other concepts at various stages of development. Diesel will executive produce the confirmed series alongside Samantha Vincent, president of his One Race Films production company, with franchise veterans Neal H. Moritz, Chris Morgan, Jeff Kirschenbaum, and Pavun Shetty also attached.

Behind the camera, the show is being built by a team with plenty of television experience. The series will be run by Mike Daniels and Wolfe Coleman, who previously worked together on Shades of Blue, with Daniels also having spent time producing Sons of Anarchy. That pedigree suggests Universal wants a grounded, character driven approach rather than a straight copy of the films.

There is still a lot left unconfirmed about the project. Currently there is no premiere date for the show, which also remains untitled for now. Even so, the fact that it is happening at all represents a genuine turning point for a franchise that has spent over two decades living exclusively on the big screen.

The Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson Spinoff’s Legacy

Long before any of this Peacock talk, Hobbs and Shaw were already proving there was an audience hungry for spinoff content built around the franchise’s biggest personalities. Universal’s push for the spinoff began after Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs became a fan favorite following his arrival in the franchise’s fifth installment, with Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw joining a few films later.

The chemistry between the two actors is really what sealed the deal. It was after seeing the pair’s chemistry in dailies for The Fate of the Furious that Universal began seriously developing a two hander built around their characters. Chris Morgan, the writer often credited as the architect of the franchise’s mythology, was assigned to the script.

Critics at the time noted how the spinoff shifted the tone of the series even further into pure spectacle. The film sees former U.S. federal agent Luke Hobbs and former mercenary Deckard Shaw recruited by the government to track down a world ending device, and the story is ultimately stolen by co stars Vanessa Kirby and Idris Elba as Hattie Shaw and villain Brixton Lore.

Looking at the broader picture, Hobbs & Shaw remains a significant chapter in franchise history for another reason entirely. The Fast and the Furious franchise spans 11 films including the Hobbs & Shaw spinoff, released between 2001 and 2023. It was the series’ first true attempt at branching its universe outward, and its success laid the groundwork for the television ambitions now taking shape at Peacock.

What This Means for the Future of the Franchise

Universal has made it clear the ‘Fast & Furious’ engine is not slowing down even as its central saga winds toward a close. There is a Fast finale and three spinoff movies in the works, including the Dwayne Johnson and Jason Momoa starring Hobbs & Reyes.

Studio leadership has also hinted the franchise could evolve tonally as it moves forward. Donna Langley, chairman and chief content officer of NBCUniversal Studio Group, has suggested future films could scale down the blockbuster action to more of a street level feel, similar to the original movie.

With a theatrical spinoff landing on Hulu, a new series taking shape at Peacock, and additional films already in motion, the ‘Fast & Furious’ family shows no sign of parking the cars anytime soon. For longtime fans who have followed Dom, Hobbs, and Shaw across more than two decades of chaos, the question now is whether this small screen expansion can capture the same lightning in a bottle that made the films such a global phenomenon.

Are you planning to revisit Hobbs & Shaw when it hits Hulu next month, or are you more excited about the idea of a full blown Fast & Furious television series at Peacock?