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FAST AND FURIOUS 9 Trailer (2020)

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The Fast & Furious family just got a lot more complicated — and Han is back from the dead.

Universal Pictures dropped the first official trailer for F9 on January 31, 2020, and it wasted no time upending everything longtime fans thought they knew about the franchise’s mythology. Justin Lin, the director behind parts three through six, returns to the saga for a story that drags Dominic Toretto out of his quiet, off-grid life and straight into a family feud nobody saw coming. The film is set for a May 22, 2020 release, with the trailer getting a nationwide push during the Super Bowl broadcast.

• The footage reveals Dom’s estranged younger brother, Jakob Toretto (John Cena), as a master assassin and elite driver now working alongside returning villain Cipher (Charlize Theron).
• The trailer’s closing shot confirms Han Lue (Sung Kang) is alive, answering the years-long #JusticeForHan campaign after his apparent death in Tokyo Drift was retconned as a Deckard Shaw hit in Fast & Furious 6.
• Sung Kang made a surprise appearance at a pre-Super Bowl fan concert event in Miami on January 31 to help unveil the trailer, calling his return “emotional.”

Dom’s Family Problem Gets Personal

The trailer opens on Dom (Vin Diesel) and Letty (Michelle Rodriguez) living quietly off the grid with Dom’s young son, Brian — a peaceful setup the franchise has trained audiences to distrust immediately. That peace collapses when Dom’s crew is pulled back into action to stop a plot orchestrated by Jakob Toretto, played by John Cena in his first appearance in the series. Jakob isn’t just a new adversary; he’s Dom’s own younger brother, and the trailer frames their rift as the emotional engine of the entire film.

Jakob isn’t operating alone. He’s shown working in tandem with Cipher, the cyber-terrorist played by Charlize Theron who tormented Dom’s crew in The Fate of the Furious. Pairing a blood relative with the franchise’s most recent big-bad signals that F9 is leaning hard into the idea that Dom’s past — not just his enemies — is catching up with him.

Han Lue’s Return Answers Years of Fan Pressure

The trailer’s biggest gut-punch comes in its final seconds: Han Lue, calmly eating chips, walking back into Dom’s crew as if he never left. Han was believed killed in a fiery crash in 2006’s The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, a death later retconned in Fast & Furious 6 as an assassination carried out by Deckard Shaw, played by Jason Statham. That retcon only deepened fan frustration once Shaw was folded into the “family” in later films despite having killed Han — giving rise to the #JusticeForHan movement.

“It’s emotional — it feels like I’m going back to a family reunion.”

That’s how Sung Kang described stepping back into the role during a surprise appearance at a pre-Super Bowl fan concert in Miami on January 31, the same day the trailer went live. Kang’s comment lands as more than promotional color — it’s an acknowledgment that Han’s death was a wound the fanbase never fully let go of, and F9 is choosing to address it head-on rather than gloss over it.

The Returning Crew

Beyond the Cena and Kang additions, F9 brings back the full extended roster that’s carried the series for two decades: Jordana Brewster as Mia Toretto, Tyrese Gibson as Roman Pearce, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges as Tej Parker, Nathalie Emmanuel as Ramsey, and Helen Mirren as Magdalene Shaw. Lucas Black also returns as Sean Boswell, reprising his Tokyo Drift role and tying the Han storyline directly back to the film where it started. That connective tissue matters — Lin is explicitly pulling threads from the franchise’s least-connected entry back into the main timeline.

For a deeper look at how Universal has been building out F9’s marketing rollout, including its viral promotional stunts, see the trailer breakdown for Fast and Furious 9’s “Cardi B Meets Vin Diesel” spot. And with several other franchises racing to fill out 2020’s release calendar, it’s worth checking which big titles are still on track to hit theaters this year.

With F9 dated for May 22, 2020, and a Super Bowl spot already lined up to widen the audience beyond the franchise faithful, the pressure now is on Lin and Universal to land Han’s return without it feeling like a gimmick. Kang standing in Miami on January 31, snack bag in hand in the trailer’s final frame, is the clearest signal yet that this isn’t a tease — it’s the plot.