Having penned every instalment since 2005’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Chris Morgan is stepping aside for the ninth instalment of the blockbuster action series.
THR is reporting that the as-yet-untitled Fast & Furious 9 will be written by Daniel Casey (Kin), who apparently secured the job after impressing with his upcoming superhero script The Heavy, which J.J. Abrams is producing for Paramount Pictures.
Morgan is not leaving the franchise completely however, as he will be focussing his attention on writing and producing next year’s Hobbs and Shaw spinoff, featuring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham.
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Fast & Furious 9 will see the return of director Justin Lin, who sat out the last two instalments. It is set for release on April 10th 2020, with the Hobbs and Shaw spinoff arriving in cinemas on August 2nd 2019.
