After Paul Walker's death in 2013, production on "Furious 7" shut down.
When the cast and crew returned to complete the film, the entire third act was rewritten to send off Walker's character.
"Fast Saga" screenwriter Chris Morgan told Collider the original ending would have been "happier" with the group "going more outlaw."
"The core issue for Brian, Paul's character, was this kind of 'Who am I?' sort of question," Morgan said. "He's a guy who used to be a cop and in the thick of the action and a racer, and all this stuff, and now he has an amazing wife, a kid, and another one on the way."
"Then he starts to look at his life and it's not a midlife crisis but to say — we said it in the movie, 'I miss the bullets, I miss the action' and the point of the adventure was to show by the end of it that the thing that's truly important to him is his family and being there," Morgan added.
He continued: "It wouldn't mean that he has to stop those adventures or those things, but the context is just a little bit different, he has a different understanding of who he is at his core and what's most important in life."