Should "The Fast and the Furious" franchise continue?

“The Fast and the Furious” has to be one of the longest running movie franchises ever. Recently they released their seventh entry in this franchise. This one is a big deal because of what happened during the filming of this movie.

            During filming of “Fast & Furious 7”, Universal was talking about making two more movies (for a total of nine) with the last one wrapping up the franchise. However during filming of the most recent film, lead actor Paul Walker died in a car accident which delayed the filming and caused the movie to go through some edits and rewrites. The rest of the cast and crew postponed production to honor the loss of their co-star. They finished Paul Walker’s scenes by using his brothers to fill in for the rest of his parts in the movie.

            Prior to the movie’s opening weekend, Vin Diesel and the rest of the cast had special tributes to Paul Walker at special screenings of the movie. There has been some talk recently from the studio about continuing the franchise without Walker; however Vin Diesel and the rest of the actors in the franchise don’t appear to want to have the franchise continue.

            From seeing the recent movie I can say that I think they should put the franchise to rest out of respect for Paul Walker. Vin Diesel, Tyrese Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez and the rest of the cast were very emotional when filming the rest of this movie and admitted that it wasn’t easy finishing the movie without Walker. Also I thought from the way the movie ended it felt like the perfect closure to the series. During the final scene they had a montage of clips of Paul Walker throughout the previous movies which was a nice tribute to him.

In the end they definitely had a great run and they did a good job of making a proper ending to fun franchise of movies. May Paul Walker rest in peace.