Seven years after it hit theatres, Hobbs & Shaw has finally found a home on Hulu. Collider reported the streaming arrival this week, closing out a long wait for a film that made a genuine mess of the Fast & Furious formula and got away with it.

Directed by David Leitch, who went on to make Bullet Train, the 2019 spin-off swapped out Vin Diesel's Dominic Toretto for a pairing nobody had asked for and everybody, apparently, wanted. Dwayne Johnson's Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham's Deckard Shaw, sworn enemies turned reluctant partners, spend two hours trading insults while the plot around them goes full science fiction. Shaw's MI6-agent sister Hattie becomes the target of Brixton Lore, a cybernetically enhanced villain chasing a programmable virus with the potential to wipe out a chunk of humanity. It's a long way from street races in LA.

The cast list reads like a studio wishlist that actually got approved. Idris Elba plays Brixton. Vanessa Kirby is Hattie. Eiza González, Cliff Curtis, Helen Mirren and Eddie Marsan round things out, with Mirren in particular relishing a role that had no business existing in a Fast & Furious movie until it suddenly did.

Collider's report pegs the film's worldwide haul at $760 million, a number that made Hobbs & Shaw one of 2019's biggest earners despite fan grumbling at the time that it was too far removed from the core series. Whether that gap helped or hurt it commercially is still argued over online, but the box office speaks for itself.

A stranger reunion is coming

There's a second thread here that's arguably more interesting than a library title moving platforms. Statham and Leitch are teaming up again, this time for a film with the deliberately absurd title Jason Statham Stole My Bike. Leitch, in an earlier conversation with Collider's Steve Weintraub, confirmed that Statham isn't playing a character in the usual sense. He's playing himself, or a heightened version of it, in the tradition of Being John Malkovich and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

Leitch was careful to draw a line between his film and those precedents. "I think it's different than some of these other meta movies," he said, adding that the goal is something "comedic and fun" rather than a straight parody exercise, even if there are nods to the genre along the way.

No release date has surfaced for that project yet. For now, Hobbs & Shaw's streaming debut gives newcomers and rewatchers alike a reason to revisit Brixton's superhuman posturing and Mirren's scene-stealing cameo, while everyone waits to find out exactly how self-aware Statham is willing to get on screen next.