The First Trailer For ‘Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw’ Promises A Gas-Guzzling Good Time

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: they should release one Fast & Furious movie every year for the rest of human history, so we can all chew on popcorn and lap up exceedingly silly movies about people who drive fast cars until we are eventually killed off by global warming.

Luckily then, an annual release is what the Fast & Furious franchise seems to be slowly moving towards. For the next three joyful years, we’re going to get one movie every 12 months.

The first: Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw, the ampersanderific title of the very first Fast & Furious spin-off, which will hit cinemas August 1, and the trailer for which is out right flipping now.

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. Watch the trailer now starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham. ❤️ this tweet to be the first to see new content until #HobbsAndShaw hits theaters August 2. pic.twitter.com/xKT1i70weN

— Hobbs & Shaw (@HobbsAndShaw) February 1, 2019

Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw moves away from the action of the main series, and into a kind of sidebar, sending two of the franchises’ most beloved characters off on a little adventure all of their own.

For those who need some brushing up on the (surprisingly complicated) F&F lore, Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) has been a series protagonist since Fast Five. A U.S. Diplomatic Security Service agent initially tasked with hunting down Vin Diesel and co., Hobbs ended up joining them, and has been a voice of reason in the crew ever since.

Meanwhile, Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) started off as an antagonist: he is the smirking villain at the heart of Furious 7, the James Wan-directed megablockbuster. For reasons that are fairly difficult to get into, Shaw eventually became an uneasy ally of the crew. Seeing how Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw deals with his dark past will be part of the fun.

And fun the film will be, if the trailer is anything to go by. Leaning heavily on the reluctant team-up angle, it looks like the movie will be filled with ridiculous machismo dialogue along with the requisite number of cars, villains, and chases, making it another delightfully silly piece of soupy entertainment you can use to forget your problems for two blissful hours. Plus it introduces Idris Elba into the series, because apparently the produces won’t be satisfied until they get every badass in Hollywood onto the screen at the same time. And frankly, I am fine with that.

Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw hits cinemas in Australia on August 1.