Overview
- Barry Hertz’s Welcome to the Family details an original Furious 7 finale in which the crew eliminates the God’s Eye after regrouping at Neptune’s Net.
- The book recounts how Paul Walker’s death paused production and led to a reworked conclusion completed with his brothers and extensive visual effects.
- Because the device ultimately remained in play on-screen, later films reused the God’s Eye, underscoring how the abandoned ending would have altered continuity.
- Hertz reports that Justin Lin left Fast X after escalating creative tensions with Vin Diesel and producer Samantha Vincent, citing multiple high-level sources.
- A proposed Fast X climax featuring a giant excavator-like machine drew pushback for being overly CG-heavy, with a second-unit veteran likening the idea to Transformers.