{"id":30289,"date":"2013-09-02T14:10:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T18:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=30289"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:29:35","slug":"fast-and-furious-7-adds-kurt-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/02\/fast-and-furious-7-adds-kurt-russell\/","title":{"rendered":"FAST AND FURIOUS 7 Adds Kurt Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KurtRussell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KurtRussell.jpg\" alt=\"KurtRussell\" width=\"550\" height=\"234\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KurtRussell.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KurtRussell-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is the <strong>Fast And Furious<\/strong> franchise trying to rival <strong>The Expendables<\/strong> in the casting department? Much like Sly Stallone&#8217;s ensemble action films featuring a number of the genre&#8217;s stars, Universal&#8217;s street racers-turned-high-tech-thieves franchise seems to be staffing up its next installment with some big names. Jason Statham has already been announced as the new film&#8217;s chief villain and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/08\/25\/tony-jaa-fast-furious-7\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last week<\/a> Thai martial arts superstar Tony Jaa was cast in an unspecified role. Joining their ranks will be none other than action icon Kurt Russell.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no word yet as to whether Russell will be a good guy or a bad, at least according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/film\/news\/kurt-russell-fast-7-1200585886\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a> report that broke the news, though they do state that it was a role originally offered to Denzel Washington. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20140927131518\/http:\/\/www.bleedingcool.com:80\/2013\/08\/30\/kurt-russell-cast-in-fast-and-furious-7-in-a-mainly-mysterious-role-mainly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bleeding Cool<\/a> is reporting from their sources that his character is a good guy but has ties to the Shaw Brothers, the villains of both the last and upcoming film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The cast gains another action icon.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/02\/fast-and-furious-7-adds-kurt-russell\/\" title=\"FAST AND FURIOUS 7 Adds Kurt Russell\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[6686,6384],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-fast-and-furious-7","9":"tag-kurt-russell"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30289"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=30289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}