{"id":111529,"date":"2015-04-26T10:14:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-26T10:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=111529"},"modified":"2015-04-26T10:22:36","modified_gmt":"2015-04-26T10:22:36","slug":"fast-and-furious-sequel-set-for-2017-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=111529","title":{"rendered":"Fast and Furious sequel set for 2017 release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The next chapter in the Fast and Furious franchise will hit cinema screens in 2017, star Vin Diesel has confirmed at CinemaCon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve been so loyal all along,&#8221; Diesel told the assembled cinema owners. &#8220;You helped us create history here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Furious 7 was temporarily halted following the death of star Paul Walker in a car crash two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Released this month, it is currently the seventh highest-grossing film ever.<\/p>\n<p>The film, starring Diesel, Walker, Jason Statham and Michelle Rodriguez, has made $1.15 billion (\u00a3759 million) at the worldwide box office.<\/p>\n<p>It took a record-breaking $143 million on its opening weekend in the US and became the fastest film to take more than $1 billion (\u00a3669.5 million) worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Walker was midway through shooting the movie when he died in November 2013, at the age of 40.<\/p>\n<p>Special effects technicians and stunt doubles enabled the completion of the project, which has been called &#8220;a cathartic experience for fans of Walker&#8221;.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape full-width has-caption\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/media\/images\/82433000\/jpg\/_82433522_furious7paulwalker.jpg\" alt=\"Paul Walker in Furious 7\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"media-caption__text\">Following his death in November 2013, Paul Walker&#8217;s Furious 7 scenes were completed with the help of CGI<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The last time I was on this stage I was with my brother Pablo,&#8221; said an emotional Vin Diesel at CinemaCon on Thursday, referring to his friend Walker by his nickname.<\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that Kurt Russell will also return to the latest film &#8211; with rumours it will be shot predominantly in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to make the best movie you&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; said Diesel. &#8220;Furious 8 will be yours to share with the world on April 14, 2017.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next chapter in the Fast and Furious franchise will hit cinema screens in 2017, star Vin Diesel has confirmed at CinemaCon. &#8220;You&#8217;ve been so loyal all along,&#8221; Diesel told the assembled cinema owners. &#8220;You helped us create history here.&#8221; Furious 7 was temporarily halted following the death of star Paul Walker in a car [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":111530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,6],"class_list":["post-111529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-standards-authority","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/111530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}