‘Fast X’ trailer: Four Oscar winners help Vin Diesel hit the road one more time [Watch]

Back in 2015, just before the release of “Furious 7,” the seventh installment in the “Fast and Furious” franchise, star Vin Diesel suggested in an interview that the film would win Best Picture at the Oscars. “Universal is going to have the biggest movie in history with this movie,” Diesel told Variety at the time. “It will probably win best picture at the Oscars unless the Oscars don’t want to be relevant ever.” Sadly, for Diesel and perhaps the academy itself, “Furious 7” didn’t win any awards at the 2016 ceremony. But in the years since being blanked by the Oscars for the blockbuster hit, the “Fast” franchise has found a different way to approach awards credibility – casting Oscar-winning stars.

So on the heels of Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren joining the “Fast” universe in previous installments, the latest film, “Fast X” (out May 19), found room for Brie Larson and Rita Moreno. Both Oscar winners factor heavily in the first trailer for “Fast X,” the upcoming 10th film in the blockbuster franchise, which was released on Friday before its linear television debut during the Super Bowl. Larson appears as a shadowy official seemingly on the side of Diesel’s Dom Toretto; Moreno plays Dom’s grandmother. But audiences aren’t necessarily showing up to “Fast and Furious” movies for its awards bonafide. So the “Fast X” trailer leans heavily on the explosive action that has become a hallmark of the series. In this installment – which promises to be the beginning of the end, as “Fast X” stands as the penultimate entry in the franchise – Dom and his extended family face trouble in the form of a villain from their past (played by Jason Momoa). Cars crash, everything explodes, and Diesel talks about the virtue of family.