“Fast and Furious 4″ First look
USA Today has debuted the first three official photos from Universal Pictures’ “Fast and Furious 4“.
The fourth installment of the street-racing saga will enjoy a rarity among franchises: the return of original stars. Vin Diesel and Paul Walker reprise their roles as outlaw and cop.
Even Justin Lin, who directed 2006’s “Tokyo Drift“, has been surprised by the franchise’s reach.
Lin says:
“I was in Barcelona, and a kid from Spain comes up and just says “Fast and Furious”. It’s amazing how many kids know it.”
Vin Diesel:
“We were doing a movie about illegal racing before most people even knew how popular it was.” How many franchises are that based on the real world?”
But it’s not all current events, Walker says. “Who doesn’t like fast cars and hot women?”
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Brand New “Babylon A.D.” Trailer
The first full lenght trailer for “Babylon A.D.” staring Vin Diesel has been released featuring the famous “Requiem for a Dream” music, entitled “Lux Aeterna.”
Vin Diesel stars as a veteran-turned-mercenary (Thoorop). He is hired to deliver a package from the ravages of post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe.The “package” is a mysterious young woman with a secret, she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.
“Babylon A.D.” directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (”Gothika“, “Munich“) is scheduled to hit theaters on August.
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The Wachowski Brothers aid in ‘Ninja Assassin’ Filming!
Ricky Yune, who went toe-to-toe with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker in The Fast and The Furious, as well as battling 007 in Die Another Day, and who recently left the upcoming Street Fighter movie, has signed on to star as the antagonist in Ninja Assassin, the Wachowskis-produced action film James McTeigue is directing, says The Hollywood Reporter. Also boarding the production are Naomie Harris as the female lead and Ben Miles.
Yune has recently spoken about the role and gives a brief hint at how this ass kicking will ensue…
“Not to give too much away, (but) my character stays within what he was brought up with, and they go up against each other,” Yune said. “I’m not a heavy. The characters are ninjas, they are assassins, and there’s this mix of morality the Wachowskis are exploring.” )
The martial arts extravaganza stars Korean actor-singer Rain, who also appears in the siblings’ Speed Racer, as a man brought up in an orphanage functioning as a ninja farm. The man turns his back on his tradition to make his way in the modern world, which brings him into conflict with a ninja (Yune) from the clan.
A release date still hasn’t been set. The movie was written by Matthew Sand and
J. Michael Straczynski. The Wachowskis and James McTeigue previously worked to gether on McTeigue’s directorial debut, V for Vendetta. Read the rest of this entry
‘Babylon A.D.’ International Poster and Trailer
A new international poster and trailer for the upcoming Vin Diesel action flick “Babylon A.D.” has been released, featuring a familiar shot of the actor walking through a city.
“Babylon A.D.” is directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, who last helmed Halle Berry’s “Gothika” back in 2003. He seems to be just as popular behind the camera as he is in front. You might remember Kassovitz from “Munich,” where he played one of the Mossad agents along side Daniel Craig and Eric Bana.
“Babylon A.D.” is scheduled to hit theaters on August 29th, 2008.
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Vin Diesel’s ‘Babylon A.D.’ Runtime Slashed
Vin Diesel’s next movie Babylon A.D. has had its running time drastically chopped by studio 20th Century Fox.
Twitch Film reports that the original cut, which ran 2 hours and 40 minutes, has been slashed to 90 minutes for its UK release.
The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) has also awarded the film a 12A rating, suggesting that much of the action and violence from the film has been cut.
Babylon A.D. stars Vin Diesel as a mercenary who escorts a woman from post-apocalyptic Russia to New York. The pair find themselves tracked by a cult who want to use the woman to genetically engineer a Messiah.
Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu and Charlotte Rampling star in the Mathieu Kassovitz-directed film.
Babylon A.D. is scheduled for release on August 29.
Vin Diesel Talks About ‘Fast And The Furious 4′
Vin Diesel sat down with MTV News to talk about the upcoming forth installment of “The Fast and the Furious”, mentioning the reasons for his return to the franchise.
“I think doing the cameo in ‘Tokyo Drift’ confirmed a lot of things for me,” said Diesel. “It confirmed that if you create a role that the world kind of identifies with, or the world adopts, sometimes you have that responsibility to revisit that role. I’m a little bit slower than the average actor that just jumps into the sequel, but I think the time has come to revisit Dom Toretto.”
