Filming of Fast and the Furious 7 will resume later this month after it was stalled following the sudden tragic death of Paul Walker in November 2013.
Filming for the seventh installment of the hit franchise was originally scheduled to resume after the Thanksgiving holidays last year, but was put on hold after the actor died in a fiery car accident in Los Angeles.
Executives at Universal Studios confirmed yesterday that production will resume March 31 with the cast and crew of the Fast and Furious team.
Vin Diesel, who stars as Dominic Toretto in the F&F franchise, also posted a message on Facebook this week confirming the progress of the film. He posted: "The transition into that Dom (Diesel's character) state of mind has always been an interesting one. Only this time there is added purpose, a collective goal to make this the best one in the series... P.s. The long awaited completion of Seven, begins..."
It has been reported that Paul Walker had completed filming up to 85 percent of the seventh installment of Fast and the Furious franchise. The movie was slated to release in July 2014 but was pushed back to April 2014 due to Walker's death.
Producers and writers had to rewrite the script to phase out Paul Walker's character Brian O'Conner. Rather than being killed off in the series, it was reported that O'Conner will retire.
The Hollywood Reporter wrote earlier this year: "In the weeks after the tragedy, director James Wan, writer Chris Morgan, and Jeffrey Kirschenbaum, Universal's lead executive on the Fast films, pored over the footage Wan had shot.. The trio then devised a plan to tweak the existing script so that Walker would remain a part of the story but could be written out, allowing the franchise to continue without him."
