Fast and Furious star Tyrese Gibson has thrown shade at spin-off film Hobbs & Shaw after criticising Dwayne Johnson for delaying the main franchise.

In 2017, the actor – who first appeared as Roman Pearce in 2 Fast 2 Furious – lashed out at the spin-off following Fast & Furious 9‘s release date change from 2019 to 2020.

Now, in an Instagram post he went on to delete, Gibson shared a screengrab of a misleading article headlined: ”Hobbs & Shaw has lowest Fast & Furious box office opening since Tokyo Drift.”

Gibson captioned the link with: ”Breaking up the family clearly doesn’t have the value that one would assume it does.”

It’s worth pointing out that Hobbs & Shaw knocked The Lion King off the box office top spot around the world and has hauled in global takings of $180m.

After deleting the initial post, Gibson shared another, writing: “Just gonna sit here. Leave my glasses on. Stay quiet and act like nothing ever happened. Why? Cause nothing did happen.”



Gibson had been angry that the main Fast & Furious franchise was put on hold due to Johnson’s idea to develop a spin-off surrounding characters Luke Hobbs and Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham).

“Congratulations to @TheRock and your brother in law aka 7 bucks producing partner @hhgarcia41 for making the fast and the furious franchise about YOU [sic],” he wrote in 2017.

Gibson, Johnson and Statham's Fast and Furious co-star Michelle Rodriguez later appeared to respond to the criticism with her own post expressing happiness with the spinoff's success.

The franchise will resume proceedings with next May’s ninth entry. Director Justin Lin, a familiar name to those who’ve followed the series since its inception, will direct both the ninth and tenth entries.

Lin’s back-to-back sequels will be released just one year apart, with the untitled one due in April 2021.