THR recently hosted an executive roundtable, and among the guests was Universal Pictures chairman Donna Langley, who dropped some great news for Fast and Furious fans. Asked whether the franchise would be pursued without one of its main stars, Langley said she believed the series could stand without Walker.
After the second film in the series, 2 Fast 2 Furious, Universal worked around O'Conner, setting up a new branch of its storyline in Japan with The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Conceivably, future Fast and Furious movies could do the same, introducing new characters just as the third installment gave us the greatness that was Han. And speaking of Han, his onscreen demise--along with Gisele's--prove that the franchise can outlive its onscreen antiheroes.
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