These past few days, the movie-going and motoring scenes (to name but two) have been grieving the loss of Fast and Furious movie franchise actor Paul Walker (40), who died in a high-speed car crash while he was a passenger in a red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT this Saturday.
The driver and also the owner of the Porsche, Roger Rodas had the same sad fate. Our thoughts and condolences go out to the families of the two.
The two men were out in the analog supercar on what is said to have been a smooth and wide stretch of road around the Rye Canyon Business Park in Valencia, California, when something happened that caused it to slam into a barrier at high speed, at around half-past three in the afternoon, local time.
Gossip site TMZ says it was the car that may have malfunctioned.
Walker was currently working on the seventh installment of the Fast&Furious franchise, the fate of which now unclear. Speaking to CNN, Tom O’Neil, editor of the show business website Goldderby said: “We don’t know what they’ll do here, or even if they’ll just say, “It may be tasteless to proceed at all because we can’t be showing Paul Walker in a speeding car, defying death in a movie that ended up being the way he died,'” O’Neil said.
I agree and I think it would be ridiculous if Walker was replaced onscreen by a different actor if they make him suffer the same fate onscreen just to keep it going
It’s worth mentioning that Walker had just completed his starring contribution to the new movie “Hours,” which comes out later this month and follows the story of “a father (who) struggles to keep his infant daughter alive in the wake of Hurricane Katrina,” according to IMDb.
Finally, we will leave you with Vin Diesel’s quite sad tweet: “My brother and I…..we aimed for the stars together….and achieved more than we ever hoped we could with f&f.”
By Andrei Nedelea
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