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"Kurt Russell has opened up about Fast &amp;amp; Furious 7&amp;#039;s rewrites following Paul Walker&amp;#039;s death. Walker died on November 30 in a car crash in California, leading to major changes in the seventh instalment of the action franchise.   Russell - who has been cast as a &amp;quot;father figure&amp;quot; to Vin Diesel&amp;#039;s character Dom Toretto - said that Walker&amp;#039;s death was &amp;quot;catastrophic&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re having to rewrite, they&amp;#039;re having to do whatever they&amp;#039;re having to do to deal with the situation,&amp;quot; he said at the Sundance Film Festival. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s catastrophic. It&amp;#039;s the worst thing that could happen to a movie but it&amp;#039;s not as bad as what happened to Paul. &amp;quot;So everything is in perspective. He was a terrific guy. And life is full of curveballs. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s just a situation that they&amp;#039;ll work out and, at that time, I&amp;#039;ll go back to work.&amp;quot; Russell added that he expects to return to the film&amp;#039;s set later this year.  &amp;quot;At the time [of Paul&amp;#039;s death] I had one day left [on set],&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know what is going to happen with that. It&amp;#039;s obviously a difficult situation. &amp;quot;Whether or not this guy dies off in the movie, we don&amp;#039;t know. That may have changed now significantly too.&amp;quot; It was recently reported that Paul Walker&amp;#039;s character Brian O&amp;#039;Connor will be retired from the franchise, rather than being killed off in the next sequel. Universal Pictures confirmed in December that Fast &amp;amp; Furious 7&amp;#039;s release date will be moved to April 10, 2015. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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