The franchise's first spinoff also had to be able to stand on its own. According to Johnson, talks began loosely after the star joined the cast of 2011's "Fast Five" and helped make the film a hit. But he said it took several more years to find a story worth telling. The studio's goal, he said, was to work their way to a 10th "Fast and Furious" film, "and on the way to 8, 9 and 10, you should splinter off and you should create new adventures and new characters that will inevitably lead to a nice in-road at 'Fast 10.'"