There have been a total of eight “Fast & Furious” movies. Now, with the franchise stepping into uncharted territory this coming Friday with its first spin-off (“Hobbs & Shaw”), the room for expansion has arrived.

When you buy a ticket to these movies you know exactly what you’re getting yourself into, especially in terms of the sheer amount ofridiculously unrealistic stunts — that’s just how Dom and the boys (and girls) roll. In fact, the stunts, settings, characters have become so synonymous with over-the-top’ness that a running joke has emerged over these last few years about the next inevitability being a “Fast and Furious” movie set in space. Of course, I never believed for a second that joke would turn into reality, but maybe I was wrong.

Chris Morgan has written every “Fast and & Furious” movie since “Tokyo Drift” in 2006. If there’s anybody that would know what the next steps for the franchise would be it’s Morgan and he is not dismissing a possible installment in space:

“Nothing’s out of the question,” says Morgan. “Absolutely nothing. It just has to be cool and it has to be good. You know, that’s the thing.”