At a cursory glance, one might mistake Vin Diesel's producing of films as being a tad selfish. After all, he produces films that seem tailor-made for him in particular. While that may be true in some cases, he's not above sharing the wealth when it comes to lead roles. When word got out that Vin Diesel was producing a Hitman movie, based on the insanely popular video game franchise of which he is a huge fan, people naturally assumed that he would cast himself in it.
After all Agent 47 is a super-cool, muscular and, above all, bald man of action. Instead though, Vin Diesel gave the role to Timothy Olyphant whom he felt would do better justice to the character - a case of Vin Diesel doing what he felt was best for the franchise as opposed to what was best for Vin Diesel.
In addition to table-top board games and video games, Vin Diesel is also a huge comic book fan. Having narrowly missed out on the role of Drax the Destroyer to Dave Bautista in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, the film's producers were so impressed with his enthusiasm for the project that they gave him the part of Groot's voice.
He reportedly picked up a whopper pay cheque for that one too - another victory for his agent. VIN: No. In making the publicity rounds for the film, Diesel even stopped by the Geek and Sundry web series Critical Role to play a session — in character as Kaulder. But his love for the game is more than just a fun random fact about one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars — it has an incredible influence on the work he does. That's because the thing about Diesel being a fan is that even his more mainstream projects have been infused with these qualities: as just one low-key example, xXx: The Return of Xander Cage literally introduces each of its new characters with on-screen graphics listing their strengths and skills.
But more important, there's the franchise with which he'll always be identified even if he did sit out the second film. Nineteen years later, we're looking forward to the ninth film now set to premiere in and still trying to make sense of a dense mythology that includes super-soldiers, complicated overlapping timelines, and characters coming back from the dead.
This site is part of my life's work, it's a part of me. I love what I do, and I enjoy sharing everything I can with you when it comes to movies and geekery. In my spare time I travel to the netherworlds to battle demons. JoeyPaur joeypaur geektyrant. Original Rant Review. Alerts Rumor Spoiler Updated. The pop star went unnoticed playing Pokemon Go alongside a crowd of crazy gamers when the mobile title landed. He was also reportedly late for a concert at the 02 back in because he was playing video games.
And his online gaming antics reportedly landed him in trouble with his former girlfriend Vanessa Hudgens. In the past, she's also spoken about playing Pokemon and teaming up with her Fast and Furious 7 co-star and fellow gamer Vin Diesel on World of Warcraft. We pay for your stories!
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