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Chronicles of Ridiculous?

posted by ellen leventry | 12:00pm Wednesday March 22, 2006

Who says there’s no “Passion” effect, no rush to mimic Mel Gibson’s phenomenal success? Details magazine reports in its April cover story featuring Vin Diesel–whose recent filmography includes “The Chronicles of Riddick” and “The Pacifier”–that he is preparing to star as “one of the baddest conquerors in all history: Hannibal, the elephant-riding Alps-crosser.” And, oh yeah, he’s doing the film in Punic.

So, the sword-and-sandals epic isn’t exactly the type of “religious revival” media speculated about after “The Passion of the Christ,” but Diesel certainly is making like Mel and joining the dead language club. “It is nutty!” Diesel explained to queries from Detail’s Kevin Gray. “But I don’t have a choice. I got to do it right.”

Let’s hope it’s more “Boiler Room” right, than “xXx” right.



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Marie-Celeste

posted March 23, 2006 at 4:57 am


Vin Diesel was also in Saving Private Ryan. Even if he was only in The Pacifier, he still would be on a much higher level of existence than someone who makes a living writing blogs that nobody cares about.>



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mmljarc

posted March 23, 2006 at 3:40 pm


Or someone who spends their time reading and commenting on blogs that nobody cares about……>



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Marie-Celeste

posted March 24, 2006 at 1:54 am


I have no problem admitting that Vin Diesel is ridiculously more successful than I will ever be. I will not be playing Hannibal, or Achilleus, Hektor, Alexander, Cleopatra, Queen Christina or La Reine Margot. But at least, I don t have the ridiculous job of snubbing low-brow entertaining. Where would the idol chatters be if low-brow entertainment were to disappear overnight?>



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