Universal Pictures has just signed Fast Five director Justin Lin to a two-year production deal for his newly formed company Barnstorm Pictures. Lin has directed three The Fast and the Furious series installments. The last was Fast Five, which has earned more than $600M at the worldwide box office in 2011 and was one of the few bright spots in the studio’s year. Lin will go behind the camera for Fast & Furious 6, to be released May 24, 2013. Hoping to branch beyond fast car movies, Lin is developing an action adventure spy film called Leading Man and an untitled project about the 442 Japanese American WWII battalion that is the most decorated in American history. He is also attached to finish The Terminator franchise with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a project that is set up with Megan Ellison’s Annapurna banner.


Good for Justin, hes a fresh face in Hollywood and he makes fun movies. I hope Universal doesn’t have him doing just Fast movies after the 6th and hopefully final one. Give this guy a low budget action movie and lets see what he can do
Lin is a hard worker and genuinely nice guy. Good for him, maybe he can pull Universal out of their garbage funk.
Awesome news. Justin is really down to earth and great to work with. Congrats Justin.
i can not wait for “leading man” to be made into a feature film. One of the best oni press properties will now be in good hands.
Thanks, Gitter.
Have profoundly loved Justin’s work since “Better Luck Tomorrow” put him on the map years ago. So nice to see a talented and genuinely cool guy succeed. I can only think of what he would do if he had better scripts to work with. And, yes, the recent Fast and the Furious was a marginal script that Justin saved through his terrific action sequences. Go, Justin, go! (I just hope you don’t become the Asian American equivalent of Michael Bay because you can do great things in this industry! And you’ve kept a level head to boot! Onward and upward!)
The film about the 442 Japanese-American soldiers should be riveting. Thank you to all the veterans that served our country.
congrats on this dude! and I can’t wait to see his other projects
Justin is a great “original” talent. He deserves this and I look forward to what he puts on on the horizon.