‘Fast & Furious 8’ will take place in NYC, according to Vin Diesel

It’s about fucking time, no? The Furious crew has spanned the world at this point, but they’ve never had an adventure take place in the City of Cities within the Empire. But now all of that is going to chance, courtesy of the eighth installment.

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There is all kinds of drama stirring behind the scenes of Fast and Furious 8 right now. The eighth film in the increasingly insane action series,which will kick off a supposedly final trilogy of movies, finally found its director in F. Gary Gray, but only after Furious 7‘s James Wan fled the series like his life depended on it… literally. So fans could use some good news about this movie right now. Well, they could use any news that isn’t about how nothing is going right behind the scenes.

So how about confirmation that Fast and Furious 8 will take place in New York? That’s good, solid, interesting, drama-free news, right?

Vin Diesel, aka, that shiny, mumbly, adorable core around which this entire series revolves, was on The Tonight Showto promote his new movie, The Last Witch Hunter. Naturally, the conversation eventually shifted to future projects and Jimmy Fallon asked where Fast and Furious 8 would take place. Diesel’s response (via Latino Review): “New York, baby!