The ultimate Quick & Livid movie is on the way in which and will embody much more acquainted faces than followers anticipated.

Vin Diesel shocked a crowd at FuelFest in Pomona, Calif., on Saturday with a particular announcement in regards to the upcoming franchise finale. Along with revealing the movie’s launch date, the actor broke some information a few sure fan-favorite character’s return.

“The studio mentioned to me, ‘Vin, can we please have the finale of Quick & Livid [in] April 2027,'” Diesel started, earlier than the cheering crowd. “I mentioned, ‘Below three circumstances.'”

He then laid out his phrases: “First, is to carry the franchise again to L.A.! The second factor was to return to the automobile tradition, to the road racing,” he shared. ” The third factor was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner.”

Diesel is referring to the character beforehand portrayed by the late Paul Walker, who starred in six franchise installments earlier than he was killed in a automobile crash in November 2013 at 40. 

Although Diesel supplied no particulars on how Brian’s return to the franchise will be achieved, a number of franchises have controversially turned to CGI expertise to resurrect beloved characters after the dying of their authentic actors, together with Carrie Fisher’s Leia Organa in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Christopher Reeve’s Superman in The Flash, Ian Holm’s Ash in Alien: Romulus.

Walker’s 2013 accident occurred whereas the star was nonetheless filming Quick and Livid 7, however the filmmakers nonetheless took particular care to present his character a correct sendoff. To finish his scenes, manufacturing referred to as upon numerous doubles, CGI, and even had the assistance of Walker’s brothers to guarantee an in depth bodily resemblance. 

As for the character’s departure, Brian took one last experience with Diesel’s Dominic Toretto, to take down Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham) earlier than realizing that his days on the street had been over. The ultimate scene noticed Brian and Dom have one last quarter-mile race, earlier than coming to a fork within the street the place Brian went a method, and Dom went the opposite.

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Quick & Livid is now racing in direction of its eleventh movie — which is being billed as the ultimate entry within the franchise — following the motion packed Quick X, by which Toretto and his crew confronted off in opposition to Jason Momoa’s Dante Reyes, an individual from their previous looking for revenge. 

Director Louis Leterrier has already teased a tearjerker of a finale to Leisure Weekly, promising, “You are going to cry. Part 2 goes to be a tragic one.”

He added, “In my thoughts, they’re trendy saints. On the finish, Dante says, ‘There’s two methods an individual turns into a saint: Both they pull off a miracle, or they sacrifice themselves for the larger good.’ So sure, you are going to cry. There are some tears in your future, let me let you know.”