Given his character’s final disposition in FURIOUS 7, and the not so obvious foreshadowing of his last moments in that picture, it comes as no surprise that Jason Statham would be returning for another appearance as master-villain & super-jerk Deckard Shaw in another FAST AND THE FURIOUS installment.
Still, what we conjecture vs what actually happens are often two completely different matters. In this case, though? Whoever felt certain that Statham’s ‘Shaw’ would be back soon…woulda bet right.
“We’re already talking about doing another one - Part 8 - and I’m a newcomer…I just got invited to the party with this last one…so it’s nice to know I’m going to be doing another…”
…says Statham in THIS discussion with Access Hollywood, video of which can be found in this embed.
The eight FAST AND THE FURIOUS movie was recently announced for April 14, 2017 release.
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