The why behind this new project is simple: the Fast & Furious series can’t hold the power of three beefcake leads.
Now, of course, the initial advantage to this strategy is it allows the Fast & Furious franchise to revert back to its drag racing roots for their final two installments – given that Hobbes and Shaw both represent parts of the series’ massive gear shifts in recent years.
But besides putting Dominic Toretto and his family back on the path to car crazy glory, it solves a couple of problems that The Fate of the Furious has created within the series.
And if they aren’t going to get rid of Dom, despite conventional wisdom suggesting it’s his time for him to go, then Hobbs and Shaw need to hit the road on their own path of saving the world from the bad guys of underground crime.