Vin Diesel's Casting Options with Marvel
Written by Marvel-ous
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| Vin Diesel set on Avengers 2? |
Two weeks after rumors first started spreading about a
potential meet up between Marvel and Fast and Furious franchise superstar Vin
Diesel, the 45 yr. old posted a picture of him posing alongside a framed cover
of
the Avengers #2 comic book, to his Facebook fans. He followed this up with
the following comments:
“Marvel
meeting today.....Only the people in the room can tell you what was
discussed...P.S thanks to our page, for pushing to make it happen...you know I
get tunnel vision with my work...and after that meeting today...wow!!”
Naturally, as soon as I read these words my head started
working overtime figuring out what character this action veteran will be given.
In the following article I’ll take a look at what part the actor could play in
the Marvel Cinematic Universe, fresh off his roles in Fast and Furious 6 and
Riddick.
First a list of confirmed and potential films in Marvel’s
Phase 2 and Phase 3
With the first 4 movies in Phase II already working out, it’s
possible that the meeting was about a Phase III movie.
The most high profile role Vin Diesel could land is probably
that of Thanos, the rumored villain for the second Avengers movie, but this
would leave me highly disappointed as it would mostly be just a voice over, with
CG used to play out the part of the supervillain giving Vin Diesel no actual
screen time. This is also my main concern about Batista playing the role of
Drax the Destroyer in Guardians. I mean, come on, who doesn’t want to see these
powerhouses in action.
Ant Man looks like a very distant possibility, considering
the main character Hank Pym is a tall, blue eyed, blondie. Not something one
would see Vin Diesel portraying, but count on Marvel to surprise us. After all
they did introduce a black, bald Nick Fury, instead of the white, blonde comic
book version.
Personally I wouldn’t mind seeing Vin Diesel take the lead
role in a possible Black Panther movie, but does anyone else really see him as
a leader of an African tribe? Besides, I think the Black Panther stand-alone
film is only in development and casting meetings happening right now makes it
all seem a little too far-fetched. The same could be said about an Iron Fist
role.
I am completely ruling out the possibility of Vin Diesel as
Doctor Strange. The Doctor is a sorcerer, more mind over muscle, and I do not
see the point of signing up Dom Torreto for such a role.
This narrows it down to two of my favorite rumored roles,
The Vision and wait for it....Blade.
Kevin Feige hasn’t made his love for a Blade reboot a secret
and with speculation about a script already written, it does look like everyone’s
favorite Vampire Hunter is going to be back in business. 9 years after Wesley
Snipes’ last outing as Blade, I wouldn’t mind seeing Vin Diesel being given his
chance to redeem the modern vampire image.
As for The Vision, it’s not something new to Vin Diesel. A
year back he had changed his Facebook profile picture to a picture of The
Vision. Since then there has been speculation about Diesel’s interest in
playing this character. Whether it was a prank or for real only Diesel will
know, but for now The Vision looks like something he would be looking into.
Starting off as a villainous android created by Ultron to
destroy superheroes, the Vision ends up a good guy and joins the Avengers. With
all the extremis based man-machine storyline in the Iron Man movies, I wouldn’t
be surprised to see Vision make an appearance in a possible Iron Man 4 movie.
Then again, I can’t really see Vision playing a big role in the movie and I’m
pretty sure Vin Diesel is looking for something bigger.
Personally, a Vin Diesel lead Blade Reboot (free of Ryan
Reynolds please) is the best case scenario but honestly anything he does with
Marvel, should be the best case scenario.
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| How about Vision? |
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