Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 5:05PM Vin Diesel to Star in & Produce 'The Machine' for MGM
Fast Five might've been the trailer that caused my friend and I to bust out laughing at in the theater, but it's more or less the hit movie that helped Vin Diesel resurrect his once flourishing acting career. Now the retooled MGM productions is banking on Diesel to pump life back into its studio by starring in an action-comedy called The Machine, Deadline reports.
In The Machine (similar to real life), Diesel will play a human-like machine created in secret by the Pentagon in order to become the world's ultimate weapon. Some 20 years later, after the government had become disenchanted with its weapon, the buried machine is discovered and reactivated by a young boy and the two become friends. Feel free to stop reading, if this movie sounds worse than the premise of any of The Fast and the Furious movies.
The brawny actor's production company, One Race Films will also produce The Machine.
The only way this story of, let's face it he's a freakin' robot, a man-machine could be more unappealing is if Paul Walker plays the little boy. It's hard to feign much excitement when it comes to a Diesel movie, though if Pitch Black were to be re-released in theaters I would go see it in a heartbeat. Honestly, his track record of bad movies speaks for itself: xXx, The Pacifier, The Fast and the Furious, The Chronicles of Riddick. You keep the list going, you almost have enough to fill a phone book.
Who am I to judge? Fast Five has raked in over $458 million globablly, and the cast is now in discussions about a sixth installment.
Reader Comments (4)
That was the funniest thing I have read in a really long time, and I don't think it would be possible to agree more. I had to read on after you told me to stop, and I'm glad I did, the Walker comment was hilarious. Pitch Black was awesome, and had such high hopes for Chronicles but that did not payoff.
Sounds like a Universal Soldier type of story line.
Only Vin Diesel movies I liked (not counting F&F) was A Man Apart & Pitch Black.
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Who am I to judge? Fast Five has raked in over $458 million globablly, and the cast is now in discussions about a sixth ins
I think getting Vin is definitely the way to go. He will make the movie a hit. He is such a great action actor that will make the movie so good. Juvederm Ottawa