Jordana Brewster Takes Fast & Furious to Cannes for Its 25th

The franchise that turned street racing into a global phenomenon is heading to the Croisette, with Brewster fronting a celebration that puts Paul Walker's legacy at its centre.

Fast & Furious marks its 25th anniversary with a Cannes appearance in 2026.
Jordana Brewster, who has played Mia Toretto since the original 2001 film, is representing the franchise at the festival.
The commemorative project Fast Forever is framed in part as a tribute to the late Paul Walker.
Brewster spoke to Variety about the emotional weight of carrying the franchise's history to a prestige film platform.
The anniversary arrives as the series prepares for what producers have billed as a final chapter.

Twenty-five years ago, a mid-budget Universal action film about illegal street racing in Los Angeles opened to modest reviews and decent summer numbers. Nobody called it a cultural institution. The Cannes Film Festival was not on the itinerary.

It is now. Jordana Brewster, who has played Mia Toretto across multiple entries in the Fast & Furious franchise, traveled to the Croisette in 2026 to mark the series’ 25th anniversary, bringing with her a commemorative project titled “Fast Forever.” The event doubles as a tribute to Paul Walker, Brewster’s on-screen brother and the franchise’s emotional anchor, who died in 2013.

In conversation with Variety, Brewster described the experience of representing a franchise built on found-family themes at one of cinema’s most formal addresses. The framing was deliberate: “Fast Forever” is positioned not as a marketing exercise but as a legacy piece, something closer to an archive than a trailer reel.

The timing is pointed. The main series is winding toward a conclusion that producers have publicly billed as a finale, making Cannes a logical staging ground for a retrospective mood. Walker’s absence has shaped the franchise’s final stretch more than any script decision, and Brewster’s presence in Cannes keeps that thread visible.

The concluding Fast & Furious chapter does not yet have a confirmed wide-release date.