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News > Vin Diesel is still alive; another Fast and Furious

Apparently, anyways. Mr. Diesel is going to direct and star in a 20-minute long prequel to the fourth installment of The Fast and the Furious franchise. His co-star in the short film is going to be Michelle Rodriguez, which really makes sense to me.

When making a movie based on a series of movies which catered to a fad long since its prime, you want to cast the absolutely worst actress alongside the absolutely worst actor in order to really make your movie a new brand of terrible. Look for the entire internet to mock this mercilessly sometime around the release of the next movie, which opens June 5, 2009.

Comments

GregS819 on 08/21 00:14am

I'm not trying to defend the movie, but they were both in the original. It totally makes sense to have them both in it for a prequal. Once again, I hate the franchise, but it makes sense.

mediajox on 08/21 3:48pm

I know I'm in the minority here, but I still think Vin Diesel is bad ass and will watch any action flick he puts out. He needs to do more Riddick films.

erikrock21 on 08/21 5:55pm

This 'Fad' you speak of is in no way past it's prime. It is just out of the eye of the short attention span public. Also the original movie was great, and the two piles of steaming doo since have left fans of the series (not movie critic dickweeds) screaming for Vin Diesel to get off his butt and star in another one.

prisefigther on 08/23 07:23am

Diesel has about as much talent as a carton of week old milk, but he does do well in action movies where all that is expected of him is to bungle some terrible one-liners. Incidentally, that is why he worked in the first movie. It was a plotless shitfest of car-chase scenes and bad acting.
Which makes me wonder, are we talking about the fad of car-based action movies, or the fad of poor acting in terrible movies? Because as long as people think NASCAR is a sport the first isn't going anywhere and as long people enjoy professional wrestling-esque entertainment then the latter isn't going anywhere either.

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