Furious 7: Which Brian O'Conner Scenes Weren't Paul Walker
After Paul Walker died in 2013 during the filming of Furious 7, director James Wan faced the difficult task of giving Walker's character, Brian O'Conner, a proper send-off from the franchise. Indeed, Fast and Furious' Paul Walker scenes have come to define the vast majority of the action, crime, and street racing movie saga. Producer Neal Moritz said that in the immediate aftermath of Paul Walker's death, they were so lost that they thought they would have to cancel the movie, but instead its ending had to be changed.
Walker's death came as a shock to everyone. While in Santa Clarita, CA for a fundraiser, the Fast & Furious star met up with his business partner, race car driver Roger Rodas. Walker and Rodas went for a joy ride in a Porsche Carrera GT, but the ride ended in tragedy with Walker losing his life. Although he had finished most of his on-camera work for Furious 7, the film ultimately had to be rewritten in order to fill in the gaps left by Walker's untimely death and explain why Brian wouldn't be in future sequels.
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Visual effects company Weta Digital was brought in to help with rounding out the performance that Walker had already given. It was no small task, as the effects company had to create 350 digital shots with Walker's character Brian O'Conner at the center. The scenes ranged from the action-packed to the more subtle. Weta relied on an archive of footage and outtakes from Walker's previous Fast Saga performances. Combined with the actor's work from the entirety of Fast and Furious, Paul Walker's brothers roleplayed scenes as Brian to provide templates for Weta. With Walker's two brothers, Caleb and Cody, and actor John Brotherton
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