Re: Fast and Furious franchise's Paul Walker killed in car crash
I always liked him. He mostly played the ordinary guy next door, and it’s easy to undervalue those kinds of performances. I think his best performance of that type was in the excellent Joyride. He anchored that film, like he anchored the FF series. The larger than life presence of Vin Diesel needed that ordinary guy to play against him.
And of course Running Scared was a big departure for Paul, and he gave an excellent performance.
IMHO the ideal way to finish his character off in the FF series would be to give him a heroic death in the climax – Let his character to sacrifice his life in order to save the others.
Obviously, they are in an awful place with the film, as they still needed to film key scenes with him. The release date is going to move, maybe to next December.
But luckily, modern technology is going to help. And they probably have a big library of him doing takes, and entire unseen scenes, in the previous FF movies. Combine those with digital trickery, and it allows them more room to re-write the script.
I think this is the first time ever, that a lead actor dies in the middle of shooting such a big tentpole film? With the Dark Knight, they had already filmed all of Ledger's scenes.
I always liked him. He mostly played the ordinary guy next door, and it’s easy to undervalue those kinds of performances. I think his best performance of that type was in the excellent Joyride. He anchored that film, like he anchored the FF series. The larger than life presence of Vin Diesel needed that ordinary guy to play against him.
And of course Running Scared was a big departure for Paul, and he gave an excellent performance.
IMHO the ideal way to finish his character off in the FF series would be to give him a heroic death in the climax – Let his character to sacrifice his life in order to save the others.
Obviously, they are in an awful place with the film, as they still needed to film key scenes with him. The release date is going to move, maybe to next December.
But luckily, modern technology is going to help. And they probably have a big library of him doing takes, and entire unseen scenes, in the previous FF movies. Combine those with digital trickery, and it allows them more room to re-write the script.
I think this is the first time ever, that a lead actor dies in the middle of shooting such a big tentpole film? With the Dark Knight, they had already filmed all of Ledger's scenes.
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