Night Hunter Posted September 25, 2015 Posted September 25, 2015 One of this summer's big movie success stories was Furious 7. The seventh film in the already popular Fast And Furious franchise took the series to a new level when it passed the $1.5 billion mark in terms of global box office, making it the fifth most successful film of all time. Despite this success, producers Universal are having trouble finding a director for the next film. The Hollywood Reporter have reported that James Wan, director of Furious 7, has declined "life-altering money" to return for another instalment of the action series, opting instead to make the sequel to his 2013 horror hit The Conjuring. Justin Lin, who directed four of the previous parts, has declined too, moving onto the latest Star Trek movie, Star Trek Beyond. Non-Stop director Jaume Collet-Serra was also approached, but was not available. Furious 7 had a notoriously troubled production, with star Paul Walker dying in a car crash halfway through shooting. The film was completed using a rewritten script, body doubles, and elaborate effects, but The Hollywood Reporter notes that the difficulty of the two-year production period may have had a detrimental effect on Wan's health. In addition, sources for the site state that star and producer Vin Diesel was "extraordinarily difficult," questioning many of the complex action sequences in tiny detail. Representatives for both Diesel and Wan have denied that there were on-set problems. The eighth Fast & Furious film is currently scheduled for an April 2017 release. In December last year, Deadline reported that Universal were looking for a director to helm a "multi-part production," with several movies shooting simultaneously, but it is unknown if this is still their intention. Source: http://www.gamespot.com/ 1 Quote
Aniky Posted September 26, 2015 Posted September 26, 2015 And there i thought Fast and Furious 7 was the last one in the line, considering the loss of Paul and such a big shock for the entire crew, specially Vin Diesel, thinking he wouldn't even want to cast in the next movie because of that, but guess we can only wait and see what will the outcome be, at the very end, it sadly won't be the same as it was, without the Paul, so they might as well just wrap it up and leave it at the latest 7 instead. Quote
RyderDyder Posted September 26, 2015 Posted September 26, 2015 Gosh fast and furious 8!!!! I gotta to catch up a lot now, the last one i watched was Tokyo drift i think Quote
bigbro Posted September 26, 2015 Posted September 26, 2015 I will be watching that when it comes out Quote
B-B Posted September 26, 2015 Posted September 26, 2015 hope 8 is as good as the others look forward to against when it comes Quote
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