Dominic Toretto and Brian O’Conner will, indeed, see each other again.
Fast & Furious franchise star Vin Diesel (who played “Dom” Toretto) attended Paul Walker‘s (who played Brian O’Conner) brother, Cody Walker’s automotive festival, Fuel Fest and gave updates on what fans can expect for the 11th Fast film.
The actor began by sharing an expected release date. “Just yesterday I was with Universal Studios … The studio said to me, ‘Vin, can we please have the finale of Fast & Furious [in] April 2027?’ I said, ‘Under three conditions because I’ve been listening to my fanbase.”
“The first is to bring the franchise back to L.A.,” he said before adding, “The second thing was to return to the car culture, to the street racing.”
Diesel concluded with his last wish: “The third thing was reuniting Dom and Brian O’Conner. That is what you’re going to get in the finale.”
On Nov. 30, 2013, Paul died in a car accident in Valencia, Calif. He was 40. Paul was reprising his role as Brian in Universal’s Fast & Furious 7 when the tragedy happened. However, how the seventh film was able to end the movie by giving his character a proper sendoff as it sees Dom and Brian speak and then drive away in separate directions. To accomplish this, the film used CGI, VFX artists, his two brothers, Cody and Caleb Walker and created 350 shots.
Joe Letteri, VFX supervisor, shared with The Hollywood Reporter in 2015 how they were able to honor Paul by having his character appear in that finale scene. The last crucial part was the dialogue. “Most of the CG shots had some kind of dialogue,” Letteri said. “The sound editors had to craft the vocal performance out of [existing] dialog from Paul, and we had to animate to that.”
