Second Photo of Vin Diesel on the Riddick Set:
Following the first photo of Vin Diesel on the set of Riddick comes this new shot posted by the actor on Sunday.
[comingsoon.net//29 jan 2012]
Nominated for an NAACP award, for the portrayal of Dom Toretto:
Vin Diesel
We all know, I tend to shy away from award shows…/smile
However, I can’t tell you how honored I am to be Nominated for an NAACP award, for the portrayal of Dom Toretto in Fast Five.
Haha… one to be proud of…
I am lucky to have such a great ensemble of actors, director, writer, producers… and even the studio. Film is truly a team effort, and everyone gave above and beyond.
P.s. Thank you NAACP for validating my work, and more importantly, validating all those who have believed in me.
[facebook.com/VinDiesel]
Madame de Pompadour as the next companion?:
This may all just be Steven Moffat trolling the internet, but the Doctor Who showrunner tweeted that people should follow Sophia Myles’s Twitter feed, and that he would explain later. Myles, who played Madame de Pompadour in Moffat’s second series episode “The Girl in the Fireplace”, put out a couple cryptic tweets, but no further information is forthcoming. This has led to speculation – as it always does in Doctor Who fandom — that Myles might be the next companion, or at least she might appear in the next series. I’m a bit more skeptical, but honestly this one is pretty hard to read. [Zap2It]
Karen Gillan confirmed again that her departure from the role has already been decided, but that her final appearances will comprise “a few episodes… a few really good episodes.” [Hitfix]
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Vin Diesel Confirms Seventh ‘Fast and Furious’ Movie in the Works:
The star of the franchise spoke to THR during a photoshoot for the Rule Breakers 2011 magazine feature.
The sixth installment of the Fast and Furious franchise will be split into two movies.
Vin Diesel, the star and a producer of Universal’s decade-long franchise, said that during the planning process of the new movie, the Fast and Furious creative team, which includes director Justin Lin and screenwriter Chris Morgan, realized that they would need a seventh movie to tell their story. The sixth and seventh are being written simultaneously, he said.
“With the success of this last one, and the inclusion of so many characters, and the broadening of scope, when we were sitting down to figure out what would fit into the real estate of number six, we didn’t have enough space,” Diesel told THR during the photoshoot for its Rule Breakers 2011 portfolio.
Fast Five moved the franchise from the genre of car-racing adventure to action-adventure heist, while garnering the best reviews in the franchise’s history and grossing an astonishing $626 million worldwide. Apart from reuniting supporting characters from previous movies, it added star power in the form of Dwayne Johnson. A coda at the end of the movie teases the return of a character played by Eva Mendes last seen in 2 Fast 2 Furious as well as the return of Michelle Rodriguez.
“We have to pay off this story, we have to service all of these character relationships, and when we started mapping all that out it just went beyond 110 pages,” Diesel explained. “The studio said, ‘You can’t fit all that story in one damn movie!’”
Diesel did not reveal details on whether the two movies would be two-parters or two standalone movies.
The actor returned to the franchise with the series’ fourth outing after appearing in an end-of-movie cameo in the third movie. The move proved so popular that it paved the way for the return of Diesel and original star Paul Walker.
The movies have proved unexpectedly resilient, something that may have to do with the themes of family and brotherhood, according to the creative team.
“It’s not about the action and the cars, which initially appealed to me when I was 25 years old,” said Walker. “Because if that’s all it was, it would have fallen off a long time ago.”
[hollywoodreporter.com Borys Kit 20 dec 2011]
Bears in a hammock, what could possibly top that?
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Exclusive: “A Look Inside” Dwayne Johnson says getting to work — and shoot a fight scene — with Vin Diesel was “a dream come true.” [Yahoo!]
New Poster Debuts for FAST FIVE Showcasing the Main Cast:
Universal Pictures has released another new poster for the film scheduled for theatrical release on April 29th, 2011. Directed by Justin Lin, Fast Five stars Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster and Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris.[dailyblam]
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In Rio de Janeiro, Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) and Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) are chased by federal agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson).
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Silas Lesnick, from Coming Soon, had an interview on-set with Vin Diesel. Not only does Vin play Dom, he apparently lives as Dom while shooting, but he warms up soon enough:
“It’s hard for me to talk about Dom right now,” Vin Diesel says as he sits down just outside the set of Fast Five, “because I am Dom right now.”
He certainly looks the part, battered from head to toe and covered in bruises, blood and sweat. But his particular style of acting goes a lot deeper than what’s on the surface. Method to the end and intensely serious about his craft, Diesel tells us that it’s rare for him to take a break and talk with press on-set.
Shooting has been going on for days in an old train yard outside Atlanta, Georgia, rebuilt for the film as an abandoned auto plant in Rio de Janeiro. It’s here that the ensemble cast of characters has gathered for what they view as one final heist, bringing together faces from across all the “Fast and the Furious” films, including actors Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Matt Schulze, Tego Calderon and Don Omar.
“I’m not in a good mood today because I’m thinking about beating the f–k out of somebody,” Diesel goes on, “Somebody is gonna get punched. I’m in an angry mode. That’s inside me. That’s the character. So I’m not the nicest person right now.”
Despite his claims, though, Diesel seems to already be warming to our small group of journalists and finally gets a grin on his face when he remembers that there’s something cool he wants to show us. A production assistant brings him his prized image from the shoot the day before: an 8×10 still from one of the fight scenes. In it, Diesel is plummeting through a huge wall of shattering glass, apparently thrown straight through as part of a fight. Snapped at just the right moment, the actor is suspended in midair with a million tiny shards all around him.
“Am I crazy, or is that bananas?” the actor laughs, “That’s yesterday and at a velocity that you can’t even imagine.”
