THE CROWN's Vanessa Kirby In Talks to Join Dwayne Johnson for the FAST & FURIOUS Spinoff

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Vanessa Kirby (The Crown) is in final negotiations to join Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham in their Fast & Furious spinoff.

Deadpool 2 director David Leitch will helm the spinoff, which will focus on Luke Hobbs, the Diplomatic Security Service agent played by Johnson, and Deckard Shaw, one of the franchise's primary bad guys. The Fast franchise's veteran scribe Chris Morgan is scripting.

Neal H. Moritz will produce via his Original Films, alongside Johnson and his Seven Bucks Productions partners, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia. Statham and Morgan will also produce with Kelly McCormick, Steve Chasman, Amanda Lewis, Ainsley Davies and Ethan Smith exec producing.

Universal is set to release the Hobbs and Shaw movie on July 26, 2019.

Vanessa Kirby starred as Estella in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations in 2011 and as Joanna in Richard Curtis' romantic comedy About Timein 2013. From 2016 to 2017, Kirby portrayed Princess Margaret in Peter Morgan's Netflix series The Crown, for which she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Television Series in 2018.

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