The “Fast and Furious” franchise is set to roar into its next phase with an eighth installment due in 2017, the first without Paul Walker, the late actor’s co-star Vin Diesel said Thursday. “Furious 7” has only just raced to the top of the global box office, taking over $1 billion worldwide in the last appearance for Walker, who died in a tragic unrelated car crash mid-way through filming. “We’re going to make the best movie you’ve ever seen,” Diesel told the CinemaCon movie confab in Las Vegas, cited by industry journal the Hollywood Reporter, which said the eighth movie will come out on April 14, 2017.
