Quite a few set photos and videos are now posted via the FF7Movie twitter account.
The film will see Jason Statham's Ian Shaw character out for revenge against Dominic and Brian (Vin Diesel and Paul Walker).
Diesel revealed info about the role that Kurt Russell saying that it isn't just for this film. He tells Metro:
"Kurt Russell was the perfect person to introduce in 7 to play out the eighth storyline that everyone is going to go crazy on".
That Twitter account went on to explain that Russell's role is the father of Chad Lindberg's Jesse from the first film. Jesse was shot in a drive-by shooting moments after pleading with Dominic to help protect him:
"He [Russell] would play the father of Jesse, and he would be Toretto's villain. He would work together with Jason Statham in the film, as Ian Shaw in #Fast7, to take revenge on Toretto and his family. Universal was searching for a bad guy for #Fast7, but he would be even more bad in #Fast8."
Djimon Hounsou has also joined the cast for an as yet unknown role according to Variety
Mixed Martial Arts fighter Ronda Rousey and Thai martial arts superstar and Ong-bak star Tony Jaa will make his American film debut in the next installment of the action film franchise.
Nathalie Emmanuel--who starred as Daenery's new servant Missandei in the recently wrapped season of Game of Thrones, plays a "significant" new member of Diesel and Walker's team.
Chris Morgan wrote the script.
Neal H. Moritz will produce
Meanwhile, director James Wan tells Moviefone that this week's "Insidious Chapter 2" will be his last horror film.
"I’m going to go on record and say I am finished with the horror genre. ‘The Conjuring and ‘Insidious 2′ are my two last scary movies. I spent the last ten years of my life doing this. It’s time for a change".
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