According to recent reports, Vin Diesel is a jerk to be around on the set of Fast & Furious 7
It’s not all motivational quotes, dancing to Katy Perry, and singing Rihanna songs for Social Media’s favorite celebrity.
According to sources close to The Hollywood Reporter, Vin Diesel has not been to easy to get along with on set of the upcoming Fast and Furious movie. The website even reports that “some on set have fantasized about using the facial-replacement technology being deployed to put Paul Walker in the film for Diesel as well,” which is like saying they wish Vin Diesel died in the car accident instead of Paul Walker.
Here is what the insider said:
“Vin spent a whole day in his trailer one day,” says one insider. “The next day, they waited four hours for him. He called a meeting [May 28] of studio execs to his trailer for two-and-a-half hours to say, ‘What the f— am I doing here?’ ” The next day, work was done with doubles.
Another source reports that the crew is suffering from “low morale” and “progress on the movie has been frustrating”.
But, Universal Pictures chairman Donnal Langley says there is nothing wrong. “This production is working through some challenges that are historically unprecedented. The crew and cast, led by Vin, have been nothing but terrific under these circumstances.”
But, the probably may be due to the decision to continue filming the movie with Paul Walker’s photo doubles instead of writing him out of the movie. Previously reported on The Hollywood Reporter, shows how much longer it takes to film a movie with Paul Walker’s photo doubles.
Peter Jackson’s Weta is tackling the effects work using three cameras (in addition to the main-unit cameras) to capture Walker’s stand-ins for face replacement. “There is a massive amount of gear,” reports the source. “Everything they want with Paul gets done three times over. Three [actors] times seven cameras per shot is a clusterf— of money being spent.”
If you have ever been on set, doing a scene twice can be frustrating enough but, seven times. Talk about a long and slow process to film a movie. Consider this a stop motion feature film animating all of Paul Walker’s parts.
