More recently, the immortal Kaulder, the protagonist of The Last Witch Hunter, 2015 film directed by Breck Eisner.Īlso in this case for Diesel it is an action, however, characterized by strong fantasy elements. Riddick, star of Pitch Black and its sequels. After Dominic Toretto, among his best-known characters are extreme sports expert Xander Cage, star of xXx, and Richard B. Over the course of his career, however, he has also distinguished himself for other films and roles, some of which are equally famous and appreciated. Yet he is a man of action, not ideas, and gets it on with a pert female flight attendant in his hotel room, the kind of move you may associate more with Austin Powers.The actor Vin Diesel is universally known for the saga of Fast & Furious, which made him a celebrity as well as one of the great performers of action cinema. He says solemnly: “Salem was wrong.” Wow. Kaulder is not unaware of the controversies associated with witch-hunting. They are the bad witches, you understand, who have infringed a peace-accord understanding with good witches policed by an ancient brotherhood of priests, among whom is Dolan, played by Michael Caine, and a younger priest, also called Dolan (Elijah Wood) whose dog collar gets later secularised into a white polo-neck. In this dismal and dull film, Diesel plays Kaulder, a guy who has been alive for 800 years, on an eternal mission to fight the witches who live secretly among us. So let’s deconstruct that satirically with a film starring me as a macho witch hunter battling an evil female.”

Witch-hating is a misogynist paranoid phenomenon.

I want to make an action-thriller on a witch-hunting theme as well, though obviously I can’t aspire to being as good as that film with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton as Hansel and Gretel.” Or did Diesel point to a shelf of books about the history of witchcraft and rumble to his colleagues: “Yeah.

D id Vin Diesel watch the 2013 film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters and say to his associates in that trademark rumbly voice: “Yeah.

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