Fast & Furious' Sung Kang Debuts Trailer for Drifter, His Directorial Debut | IGN Live 2026

The antheral down the beloved quality who inspired the palmy #JusticeforHan campaign, Sung Kang is nary alien to onscreen car enactment acknowledgment to his longtime relation successful the Fast & Furious films. At IGN Live today, helium debuted a caller trailer for his upcoming directorial debut, Drifter, which puts him backmost into a driver's seat.

In the film, which Kang besides wrote, helium stars arsenic Tree, a janitor astatine a racetrack whose acquisition for drifting was agelong curtailed. But he's fixed a azygous accidental to vie astatine a pro drifting event, adjacent arsenic helium tries to navigate his ain tragic past and the barriers it's created for him.

At IGN Live, Kang described Tree arsenic "a idiosyncratic who lives successful the shadows, who has nary voice, who has nary spot connected this Earth," lone to find his spot and a assemblage to join.

Kang explained a large extremity of his with the movie was to make a emotion missive to the car community, saying helium felt "traditionally, films person not respected the car assemblage successful the mode I spot the car community."

Han from Fast & Furious notably began beingness successful an unrelated movie, 2003's Better Luck Tomorrow, directed by Justin Lin, who'd bring Han into the Fast bid with The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift. But Kang said helium ne'er was tempted to effort and marque the pb quality successful Drifter Han arsenic well. "I waned to support it separate," Kang said. "It's been a blessing being portion of the [Fast] franchise, but present I privation to marque stories that are truthful authentic to the assemblage astir me."

Looking backmost connected the Justice for Han phenomenon, Kang said helium genuinely thought his clip arsenic Han was over, but that "the quality of franchise similar Fast is it is made by the assemblage and for the audience," noting that the radical wanted him backmost and they were heard by Universal.

Drifter is expected to unfastened aboriginal this year.

Be definite to support up with everything going connected astatine IGN Live 2026. You tin cheque the afloat docket to spot what other is coming up crossed games, movies, TV, streaming, and more.