At $600m and counting, Fast Five (or Fast and Furious 5: Rio Heist, if you will) is one of this year's biggest hitters - and rightly so because it's demented genius. It makes sense then that studio Universal is keen to keep its director Justin Lin close to home, and to that end they've signed him and his Barnstorm Pictures production company up to exclusively develop mainstream juggernauts for the next two years.
There's already the sixth Fast and Furious on its way, of course. We knew about that one already. But Lin will also be turning his attention to Leading Man, long-in-development at Universal, and based on the Oni Press comics series about a world-famous movie star who uses his celebrity and glamorous location shoots across the world as a cover story for his proper job: international spy.
Then there's an untitled project about America's 442nd infantry during WWII: a Japanese-American unit who became the most highly decorated regiment in US military history. And there's a mystery sci-fi/crime thriller written and to be directed by Robert Glickert, who worked as Lin's assistant on** Fast Five**.
There's also the small matter of Terminator 5, to which Lin remains attached. And while he's no longer directing Highlander, he told Empire recently that it's still a project "very close to my heart", and that he'll continue to oversee the "amazing" script through production.
So many plates! So much spinning! The first to drop will be **Fast Six **(or Sexy Six, as Vin Diesel is currently calling it), which already has a release date of May 27, 2013.