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.