After a four-month-long and sad hiatus following the death of star Paul Walker, the cast and crew of Fast & Furious 7 is ready to resume production on the highly-anticipated sequel.

On Tuesday, Universal Pictures confirmed that Fast & Furious 7 will continue production starting March 31. The film will be shot in Atlanta, E! News reports.

"The transition into that Dom state of mind has always been an interesting one... only this time there is added purpose, a collective goal to make this the best one in the series," Vin Diesel said via Facebook yesterday. "P.s. The long awaited completion of Seven, begins..."

The studio reports that Walker, who played Brian O'Conner in five of the six previous films (Walker was not in The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift), will indeed be in Fast & Furious 7. He began filming for the movie before his fatal Nov. 30, 2013 car accident.

Michelle Rodriguez, who has appeared as Leticia "Letty" Ortiz in three of the franchise's films (The Fast and the Furious, Fast & Furious and Fast & Furious 6), will also reprise her role in the seventh installment. According to the actress' Twitter, the film series, which began in 2001, is "so magical and entertaining" because of its great cast.

"The chemistry of the cast built the loyal fan base, and the fact that these characters live by their own code and answer one but each other creates a hero like admiration for a multicultural audience that usually has no heroes in Hollywood to relate to," she wrote on Quora.

In addition, Rodriguez praises the movies' diversity, which also features rapper Ludacris.

"I feel that the success of the Fast and Furious franchise has a lot to do with Globalization, (it's multi-cultural cast), it's timing, with a launch at the birth of a the new Millennia, and a rare innovative story telling style that took a new look at street racing, latino, black, asian & caucasian camaraderie and exposed the melting pot which is the new world," Rodriguez continued.

Fast & Furious 7 is scheduled to hit theaters April 10, 2015. It has not yet been announced how Brian O'Conner's story will conclude.

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