The trailer for Furious 7, the seventh installment in the long-running, box office-topping Fast & Furiousseries, has arrived, giving moviegoers their first look at some of the films insane stunts as well as the final big screen appearance of actor Paul Walker, who died in a car crashin November 2013. Production was initially halted on the film following Walkers death, pushing its release date from summer 2014 to April 2015.
The Furious 7 trailer opens up with one of the craziest stunts yet in any of the Fast & Furious films: The crew parachutes out of a plane in their vehicles, landing seamlessly on a highway in pursuit of a machine gun-toting truck with human cargo inside, which Paul Walkers Brian O Conner is tasked with rescuing. As producers previously revealed, Walkers character will gracefully bow out of the seriesrather than be killed off onscreen.
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The film itself picks up where Fast 6left off: After finally returning home to America following years on the lam, Vin Diesels Dominic Toretto and his family are challengedby Jason Stathams Ian Shaw, the brother of Fast 6 antagonist Owen Shaw and the murderer of longtime Fast & Furious character Han in a post-credits scene in the last film. The rest of the gang, from Ludacris and Michelle Rodriguez to Dwayne The Rock Johnson, all return alongside new characters played by UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, Ong-Bak star Tony Jaa and Kurt Russell in what seems like a villain role.
While Han, played by Sung Kang, wont appear in Furious 7, actor Lucas Black, who previously appeared as the lead in The Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift, will return to the series. Thats because Tokyo Drift, although the third film producedin the series, was actually the sixth film chronologically within the franchises universe. Furious 7 realigns the timeline to present day. Furious 7 is also the first in the series to be directed by Saw and The Conjuring filmmaker James Wan.