Vin Diesel is looking to make another splash at the box office with the 9th installment of the “Fast & Furious” franchise and isn’t slowing down concerning future projects either as he’s also expected to be part of “Fast & Furious 10,” potentially the final film in the main franchise as spinoffs featuring established characters has been hinted to as being how they’re expected to move things forward. A sequel to “Hobbs & Shaw” starring Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham is reportedly in the works at Universal Pictures.
Diesel recently signed on for a “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots” film based on the classic toy and is assumed to reprise the role of Groot in Marvel’s “Guardians of The Galaxy 3” as well.
The actor is looking to continue the rollercoaster of action roles as Diesel will be reuniting with “Fate of The Furious” director F. Gary Gray for an upcoming action-comedy, titled “Muscle,” that is at STXfilms and will begin production later this year, according to a report from Deadline.
They first worked together on “A Man Apart” back in 2003.
However, there isn’t much in the way of plot details mentioned for “Muscle,” but given Gray’s previous credits in the genre, we should expect some entertaining action sequences are being cooked up. The project is written by “Falcon & Winter Soldier” head writer Malcolm Spellman and “Into The Storm”s John Swetnam. Spellman is coming off an exciting run with the popular Marvel Studios series that just had its finale debut today on Disney+. “Falcon & Winter Soldier” was able to mix action alongside an exploration of the black experience in America, which is certainly a complex way of telling a superhero story.
The screenwriting duo is working off an original script from Scott Taylor and Wesley Jermaine Johnson.
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While Vin is busy with these other projects, we’ll continue to wait on an announcement concerning the fourth “Riddick” movie Diesel has been teasing for the last couple of years on social media that David Twohy has been writing. His bizarre sci-fi franchise seems to keep chugging along.