Vin Diesel is promising “Quick and Livid” followers that the late Paul Walker‘s Brian O’Conner will return for the ultimate movie within the blockbuster franchise. Diesel, who stars in and produces the movies, stated throughout an look at Walker‘s brother Cody Walker’s automobile pageant Gasoline Fest that the eleventh “Quick and Livid” function could have a reunion between characters Dominic Toretto (Diesel) and O’Conner (Walker).
Walker died in 2013 in a automobile accident previous to the completion of the seventh movie. His brothers Cody and Caleb served as stand-ins for his character in that movie, which used CGI and VFX to provide Walker’s character a sendoff as he drove off into the sundown. The character of Brian O’Conner exited the franchise on the finish of “Livid 7” with the reason that he was settling down together with his household, together with Jordana Brewster’s Mia Toretto, who’s Diesel’s onscreen sister.
Now, Diesel is detailing simply how O’Conner will return to cap off the franchise. “Simply yesterday I used to be with Common Studios… The studio stated to me, ‘Vin, can we please have the finale of ‘Quick and Livid’ [in] April 2027?’ I stated, ‘Beneath three situations as a result of I’ve been listening to my fan base,’” he stated. “The primary is to carry the franchise again to L.A. The second factor was to return to the automobile tradition, to the road racing. The third factor was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner. That’s what you’re going to get within the finale.”
It’s unclear but whether or not this deliberate eleventh function can be a single, ultimate installment or not. Diesel beforehand instructed Fandango in 2023 that the tenth movie, “Quick X,” might be a trilogy. “With out freely giving an excessive amount of, I can say this, going into making this film, the studio had requested if this might be a two-parter and after the studio noticed this Half One, they stated, ‘May you make “Quick X: The Finale” a trilogy?,’” Diesel stated.
The tenth function additionally noticed the franchise debut of Paul Walker’s daughter Meadow Walker, who joined Diesel onscreen for the primary time precisely a decade after her father’s demise. “Because of my dad, I used to be born into the ‘Quick’ household,” Walker wrote on Instagram on the time. “I can’t imagine now I get to be up there too with those that have been round to see me develop up… I’m so blessed to have the ability to honor my father’s legacy and share this with him without end.”
And the Walker household is all for honoring Paul Walker’s character, too. His brother Caleb instructed the AP in 2018 that he hoped O’Conner could be in additional movies. “I simply hope we get to — I don’t know — have a bit of cameo and produce Paul again to save lots of the day and I get to assist create that once more,” Caleb stated. “That’s my dream and I hope we get to try this in one of many future films.”
Brother Cody added, “I feel there might doubtlessly be a solution to do it. However it could take plenty of thought and it’d must be tasteful.”