BY EMIL TIEDEMANN
Fresh off the success of the fourth Fast & Furious movie, 41-year-old Vin Diesel will soon portray Milo Burik in a live action film adaptation of the multi-platform video game Wheelman (Ubisoft/ Midway Games). Paramount Pictures has pushed the project into high gear following Furious' box office success.A digitalized version of the action star already appears in the top-rated game (released March 2009), and appears on its cover as well, reading Vin Diesel: Wheelman, which he also produced.
Set in the city of (or similar to) Barcelona, Spain, the game has Burik as a man who comes out of retirement in order to rescue a woman from his past. The development of the film had actually been announced back in February 2006, at the same time a game effort was committed.
Oscar-nominated director John Singleton (2 Fast 2 Furious) is set to helm the project, with Lorenzo di Bonaventura (Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen) as co-producer (alongside Diesel and partner Samantha Vincent), and Rich Wilkes (xXx) as screenwriter. Wilkes' script was later reworked by Oliver Butcher (Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Hyde) and Stephen Cornwell (Killing Streets).
Filming on Wheelman has not yet begun, and a release date is still unavailable. Diesel is also currently in the production stages of sequels to the xXx (2002) and Chronicles of Riddick (2004) franchises.
3 comments:
Still sleeping over here...Hollywood going to do anything interesting!!
Yeah, maybe a film adaptation of Mario Bros....oh wait, they did that already!!
Rather see another Mario Bros!
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