Vin Diesel Joins Action/Comedy Muscle With Franchise Plans

Vin Diesel and STXfilms are teaming up forMuscle , an original action / comedy with franchise electric potential . Diesel wo n’t be returning as Dominic Toretto untilFast & Furious 9arrives in 2020 , but in the meantime he ’s get raw franchises likeMuscleand turn over his pre - existing IPs some tender loving care . In add-on to voice Teenage Groot inAvengers : Infinity Warand ( maybe ? ) next year’sAvengers 4 , the thespian hasbought thexXxmovie rightsand will begin shoot Sony’sBloodshotcomic volume moving picture this summertime .

Diesel has mostly stay away from activity / drollery since he made Disney’sThe Pacifierin 2005 , rather focusing his time and endeavour on his homegrown brands likeFast & Furious , Riddick , andxXx(in addition to voice Groot in the MCU ) . The thespian ’s franchise aspiration have n’t always pan off out over the years ( seeThe Last Witch Hunter ) , butMusclesounds like a alteration of tempo from the camp yet otherwise direct - faced genre menu that Diesel has specialized in for the past decade . It ’s still early sidereal day , though , and the film has neither a film writer nor a music director officially attached at this stage .

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Musclereunites Diesel with STXfilms Chairman Adam Fogelson , who oversaw the 5th , sixth , and seventhFast & Furiousmovies back when he was ladder things at Universal . Marshalldirector Reginald Hudlin andNAACP Image Awardsproducer Byron Phillips get the task to STX and will produce the motion picture with Diesel and One Race Films ' Samantha Vincent . In an official argument , Fogelson describesMuscleas"the perfect blending of action mechanism and comedy that [ Diesel ’s ] millions of devoted fans around the earth have come to love him for,“and emphasizes its potential to become Diesel ’s next"signature"franchise .

STXfilms has a couple of pocket-size franchises ( Bad Moms , Den of Thieves ) and decisive darlings to its name already ( The Edge of Seventeen , Molly ’s Game ) , butMuscleappears to be part of a greater campaign to put their name firmly on the map . The studio made a twinge at a gamy profile franchise with last year’sValerian and the City of a Thousand planet , but the plastic film ’s corner office return were n’t enough to underwrite its high cost . However , with Diesel manning the ship , thing could turn out otherwise withMuscle .

WithFast & Furious 10slated to be the finalFast & Furiousmovie , BloodshotandMusclecould give Diesel franchise to carry him into the future once his days of playing Dominic Toretto are done . The histrion may yet make anotherxXxmovie and perchance even a fourthRiddick , but those series are always going to be cult properties in the U.S. ( The global box office , to be honest , is another story.)Muscle , on the other helping hand , could be the re - innovation that Diesel needs to keep his star decease strong in the age ahead .

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