Christina Hodson (The Flash, Bumblebee) and Oren Uziel (The Lost City, 22 Jump Street) will co-write the next Fast and Furious movie with Fast X helmer Louis Leterrier returning to direct.
Last week, Variety exclusively revealed that Leterrier (the Transporter franchise, Now You See Me) would direct the next installment of Fast and Furious, which serves as a companion film to Fast X, opening May 19. The 11th film in the Vin Diesel-starring franchise will mark Hodson and Uziels first official collaboration.
While news of the team up might come as a surprise to some, the two in-demand creatives are friends and share office space, which made the decision to work together practically inevitable.
Hodson is a British-born, Los Angeles-based, writer and producer, who is best known for writing Paramounts 2018 Transformers prequel Bumblebee (which was a critical and commercial hit, grossing nearly $468 million worldwide) and writing and co-producing 2020s Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey for Warner Bros. and DC Comics. Her next project is the highly anticipated The Flash movie, also for Warner Bros. and DC Comics. Hodson is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment.
Likewise, Uziel experienced great success writing the screenplay for 2022s The Lost City, which starred Sandra Bulloock, Channing Tatum and Daniel Radcliffe and grossed $192 million for Paramount. He currently serves as the showrunner for Amazon and Sony TVs upcoming Spider-Man Noir TV series.
Early in his career, Uziel wrote Sonys 22 Jump Street and Freaks of Nature. His spec script The God Particle was bought by Paramount and Bad Robot, which then premiered on Netflix as The Cloverfield Paradox. More recently, he wrote and directed Netflixs Shimmer Lake, starring Benjamin Walker, Wyatt Russell, Rainn Wilson, Adam Pally, John Michael Higgins, Ron Livingston, Stephanie Sigman and Rob Corddry. Uziel is represented by Curate and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger Light LLP.
Beginning with 2001s The Fast and the Furious, the films have earned more than $6 billion at the worldwide box office representing Universals (led by filmed entertainment group chairman Donna Langley) most-profitable and longest-running franchise, with 2017s The Fate of the Furious marked as the biggest global theatrical opening of all time. The blockbuster movies have also expanded into a multitude of other offerings, including an animated series and the spinoff film franchise Hobbs Shaw.
Hodson is represented by CAA and Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment; Uziel is repped by Curate and Myman Greenspan Fox Rosenberg Mobasser Younger Light LLP.
Deadline was first to report news of Hodson and Uziels hiring.