The recently announced XXX sequel is probably his best alternative: the original, with $277.4m worldwide, remains his biggest hit outside F&F, but that was nearly 15 years ago. It might be an inconvenient truth for Diesel that audiences are so used to seeing him in contemporary settings that, unless he can dramatically up the quality of his passion projects, muscle-car cockpits are now the only place from which he can reliably tear up the box office.
Pitch Black, which in 2000 encouraged the brooding tyro to flourish inside a tight genre frame, and its second sequel, Riddick, worked better partly because they were much more tightly budgeted ($23m and $38m respectively). Like the latter, The Last Witch Hunter – apparently inspired by Diesel’s own D&D character – is another pricey ($90m) indulgence of the actor’s taste for high fantasy, but there seems to be little broader appetite to follow him into big-canvas imaginative excursions. The gravel-chute-throated bruiser returned to the F&F series after big-budget diversions XXX and The Chronicles of Riddick failed him to secure a higher level of stardom in the mid-noughties. The $10.8m US debut for his new fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter is, even unadjusted for inflation, his second-worst result, just behind 2007 sci-fi film Babylon AD Witch Hunter didn’t do much better overseas, with the top two territories – the UK and Germany – failing to open higher than his last solo lead, 2013’s Riddick. The Fast and Furious franchise has become his fiefdom – but the reality is that he has little firepower as an action star outside of it. Speaking further about his career, Vin Diesel hints at that being the case, as he suggests people found their way to it, in their own time.The clock is surely running down on the Vin Diesel project. It seems the movie must have done quite well on VOD and perhaps on streaming in the years since it was released. Directed by Breck Eisner, the movie cost $90 million to produce, yet it earned just $146 million at the box office, and a measly $27 million domestically.Ĭonventional wisdom says that's a box office bomb. However, it's money that matters most with these things, and that's why this is so surprising. For one, the movie carries a very poor 17 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. This is absolutely nothing against anyone who enjoyed 2015's fantasy epic, but the odds were very much stacked against The Last Witch Hunter 2 happening. But it's funny that you mentioned Last Witch Hunter because I'm in a meeting with Lionsgate and they're actively creating the sequel to The Last Witch Hunter." "Lionsgate is coming and saying, 'We're putting a writer on for the next one.' That's kinda cool!.
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