This is just hilarious. Reports are flying around this morning that Vin Diesel and Paul Walker are both in serious talks to appear in Fast and the Furious 4. Yeah… that franchise that Vin Diesel was too big of a star to appear in for the sequel… until I guess he realized his career hasn’t gone anywhere. Then Paul Walker talked some smack about old Vin regarding FF2:
Diesel didn’t want to do it because it’d mean he’d have to share the poster with someone else again. “Vin doesn’t want to do two-handers, he wants to go and be ‘Vin’”
But it dose now indeed look like a career stall has brought Vinny back to the table. The guys at Moviehole give us this:
I’m not at all surprised. Diesel’s commodity has been heavily cheapened over the past couple of years. He hasn’t had a hit to his name since “The Pacifier” – and that’s definitely not the type of film he should be doing; maybe after a couple of big action hits, but not straight out of the gate – and those big projects he’s wanted to do, like the biopic on Hannibal the Conqueror that he’s been tooting for years, can’t get financing. Quite simply, he isn’t the big star he – or his agent – thought he was.
There is a term I’ve been using lately. “Exposed”. It’s a term used more in sports. When a quarterback reveals a weakness that defenses can exploit, commentators say he’s been exposed. That’s what happened to Vin Diesel. In the midst of all the hype surrounding him a few years ago, people slowly started to realize THIS GUY CAN’T ACT. And as more and more people caught on to that reality, his career has dwindled.
Don’t get me wrong… Diesel isn’t totally horrible. As a matter of fact, he’s had a couple of shinning moments (he was actually pretty solid in Find Me Guilty), but ultimately, his talent just isn’t enough to equal the hype he once (and probably never will have again) had.
