The Original Ending For FURIOUS 7 With Paul Walker Has Been Revealed
So in a world where Paul Walker is still alive, how would Furious 7 end? That wasn't a question many people asked following his tragic passing, but now we have our answer thanks to Collider, who spoke to writer Chris Morgan about the film's original ending...
Well, the original ending, if I remember correctly, was our guys end up solving the problem and then kind of becoming—again, going more outlaw, it was sort of a happier ending that kind of ends with the insinuation that they were gonna go off onto this heist or this job. But the core issue for Brian, Paul’s character, was this kind of ‘Who am I?’ sort of question. He’s a guy who used to be a cop and in the thick of the action and a racer, and all this stuff, and now he has an amazing wife, a kid and another one on the way. Then he starts to look at his life and it’s not a midlife crisis but to say—we said it in the movie, ‘I miss the bullets, I miss the action’ and the point of the adventure was to show by the end of it that the thing that’s truly important to him is his family and being there. It wouldn’t mean that he has to stop those adventures or those things, but the context is just a little bit different, he has a different understanding of who he is at his core and what’s most important in life.
Of course, ultimately the team decided to continue on with the franchise, and who can blame them considering the massive success the franchise has had? Honestly, I thought the team did a phenomenal job writing Paul Walker off the franchise considering they only had so much footage to pull from, do you agree?