With the enormously popular Fast & Furious franchise about to release its ninth main installment later this year with F9, the high-octane action-adventure film series has come a long way from its beginnings about race car-driving cops and robbers in Los Angeles. And with ten films already released in the franchise overall, including last year's spinoff film Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, the timeline for the series is surprisingly more complicated than one would initially expect for a franchise centered on reformed criminals saving the world in souped-up sports cars.

With the films revealed not be taking place in chronological order as the series progressed, 2009's Fast & Furious was revealed to take place some time before the events of its immediate predecessor, 2006's The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, with the return of the character Han despite his apparent death in the previous film. Subsequent sequels would similarly take place at different points in the franchise's chronology before eventually catching up with itself.

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Check out the video below to see how each of the first ten films in the expanding film franchise correspond with one another in the shared cinematic universe's timeline and where exactly F9 could fit in next.

From intersecting film placements to the inclusion of a spinoff film, the Fast Saga has weaved a complex timeline for itself as it continues to grow. While it is currently unclear when exactly F9 takes place in relation to Hobbs & Shaw, the franchise has left enough clues to help fans sort out its convoluted order of events as Dom Toretto leads his fast-driving crew around the world to save it, one quarter mile at a time.

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Directed by Justin Lin, Fast & Furious 9 stars Vin Diesel, John Cena, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Jordana Brewster, Nathalie Emmanuel and Sung Kang with Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron and Cardi B. The film arrives in theaters May 22.