Fast & Furious 7 to be released in 2015

The future of the Fast & Furious movie franchise was thrown into doubt following the death of actor Paul Walker, but Vin Diesel, Walker’s co-star on the silver screen, has confirmed that the seventh installment of the series will be released in the spring of 2015.

Following Walker’s untimely death in a motor vehicle accident just outside of Los Angeles earlier this month, Universal Pictures, the company behind Fast & Furious 7, said that it would “assess all options available to move forward with the franchise.” Those options including scrapping the movie entirely or starting clean with a new script, but Diesel revealed via his Facebook page that the show will go on.

“There was a unique sense of completion, of pride we shared… in the film we were now completing… the magic captured… and, in just how far we’ve come…Fast and Furious 7 will be released…April 10th 2015!”

Diesel added: “P.s. He’d want you to know first…”

Fast & Furious 7 was originally scheduled to be released on July 11, 2014. It remains to be seen how the film’s rework will account for Walker’s passing.

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