Paul Walker Will be Re-Created Using CGI
On November 30 last year, actor, gearhead and all-around good guy Paul Walker died in a car crash. He was in the passenger seat of a Porshe Carrera GT driven by his friend and business partner Roger Rodas when the car hit a tree, breaking the supercar in two and killing them both.
Fast and Furious 7 was in production at the time, and according to Universal, approximately half the movie was shot. There were a lot of crucial scenes missing where Paul still had an important role to play.
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The production crew put the movie on hiatus, and they reviewed different options. There were talks about altering the scenario around the scenes they already had. They even considered cancelling the whole thing, in honor of the dead. But they finally decided to go on with the movie, keep the scenario as is, and use a CGI version of Brian O'Connor, Paul Walker's character.
The production team hired four different actors with facial traits and body shapes similar to Paul Walker. They will film the missing scenes in the flesh, and the CGI artists will adapt the digital version of Paul over them in post-production.
This decision has caused some fans to voice their opinions, saying that they would have preferred for the movie to have been modified in tribute to the deceased actor.
Fast and Furious 7 is scheduled to be released on April 10, 2015.