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Paul Walker: After drag racing ruled out, focus turns to actor's final films
(AP/Skip Bolen)Speed â not drag racing â played a role in the crash that killed The Fast and the Furious actor Paul Walker in California on Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriffâs Department has said
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(AP/Skip Bolen) (AP/Skip Bolen)
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Speed ' not drag racing ' played a role in the crash that killed The Fast and the Furious actor Paul Walker in California on Saturday, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has said.
Walker, 40, was a passenger in the red 2005 Porsche Carrera GT, driven by his friend Roger Rodas, that crashed into a utility pole and burst into flames on Saturday afternoon.
'Speed was a factor in the solo vehicle collision,' the sheriff's department said in a statement, as reported by Reuters. The clarification comes after a sheriff's deputy told CNN on Monday that authorities received a tip suggesting that another car was at the scene racing the Porsche when it slammed into a light pole and burst into flames. Investigators have since ruled out the presence of a second vehicle and the theory that the Porsche was drag racing, saying the case remains under investigation.
Walker came to fame playing hotheaded cop Brian O'Conner in five of six Fast & Furious films, which all involved illegal street racing.
Separately, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the team behind Fast & Furious 7 said that while the production would be delayed after Walker's death, it would not be abandoned entirely.
The seventh film in the series was slated for release on July 11, 2014, although Walker's death has left the original schedule up in the air.
He and other cast members were scheduled to resume shooting on Sunday in Atlanta after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Director James Wan and the executives of Universal, the studio behind the movie, said they were currently considering rewriting the film's script and how to proceed in a manner that would be respectful of Walker's death. Insiders said that a large part of the movie has been shot. However, the cast was scheduled to travel to Abu Dhabi in January to film additional scenes.
Meanwhile, other studio executives were also considering how to proceed with two other movies that Walker recently completed.
The Hurricane Katrina drama Hours will be released according to plan on Dec. 13, according to executives from Pantelion Films and Lionsgate and Hours producer Peter Safran, as reported separately by The Hollywood Reporter.
'After lots of back and forth, this is our decision. It's Paul's tour de force. He's in every frame of the movie,' Pantelion CEO Paul Presburger said.
'Paul would have very much wanted us to move forward. He was incredibly proud of this project ['¦] He really looked to this movie to show people that he is an actor,' Safran said. No information was available on Walker's death on Brick Mansions, an English-language remake of the 2004 French action movie District B13, which is currently in postproduction.
