>>212155829the problem is the timing, nobody cares about this franchise anymore, and announcing something like this comes off as desperate, especially since the last movie lost a lot of money.
it's not really a surprise they decided to bring back brian finally, since they didn't kill his character and just kept him away from the current events with dumb excuses, which was baffling, but all that obviously was in the hopes of setting him up to appear in the final fast and furious movie, during the climax, as dom is about to get killed in a high speed chase scene by the villain, a skyline shows up and saves dom, showing briefly brian smiling and driving away.
Too bad they had to spoil it to attract the audience.