How Paul Walker will come back from the dead

THE puzzle of how Universal Pictures will piece together Paul Walker’s “Fast 7” missing scenes has apparently been solved.

Paul Walker died at the age of 40 in a car accident while attending a charity event for h

THE puzzle of how Universal Pictures will piece together Paul Walker’s “Fast 7” missing scenes has apparently been solved.

“They have hired four actors with bodies very similar to Paul’s physique and they will be used for movement and as a base,” a source close to the production reportedly told the New York Daily News. “Paul’s face and voice will be used on top using CGI.”

Paul Walker in Fast and the Furious film.

Various options for how to bring the movie to completion have floated around since Walker’s death in late November. The following month, sources told The Hollywood Reporter that the movie would patch together some additional scenes to “retire” Walker’s character, Brian O’Conner. Now, according to the Daily News’ sources, Universal is confident the franchise’s fans will be satisfied with the studio’s CGI approach.

“A tribute to Paul Walker” on YouTube.

HuffPost Entertainment contacted Universal reps to confirm the news but did not receive immediate responses. “Fast 7” is set to resume production this month. It arrives in theatres on April 10, 2015, almost one year after it was originally slated to open.

Sheriff's deputies work near the wreckage of the Porsche Paul Walker was travelling in.