So yeah, without Vin Diesel, this isn’t a movie at all. He’s got just enough Fast cred to potentially have even lined up director Breck Eisner himself, and to have possibly commissioned the script (from Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama, and Burk Sharpless) himself as well (although I’m just speculating at this point). Diesel is credited as a producer on the film, as well as the star. Using apparently every last ounce of goodwill capital from the Fast bump, The Last Witch Hunter attempts to kick start a new fantasy/action franchise that isn’t so much based on a pre-existing property (exciting), but more so on Vin Diesel’s own Dungeons And Dragons character (flat out amazing).Īt face value, one might call this a passion project. (We’ll see if his return to the xXx franchise can change that or if it is as ill-advised as it sounds). And outside of those two franchises, Diesel has often tanked. The Riddick films are beloved by many, but nowhere near the box office juggernauts of the Fast films. Vin Diesel is a Hollywood personality worth rooting for, but who can’t seem to quite get the worldwide audience behind him outside of his Fast/Furious franchise. The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history. It does not benefit from that placement in witch movie history. The Last Witch Hunter is the first witch film I’ve seen in the “post- The Witch era”. Witch cinema now falls into two categories: Pre-or-post Robert Eggers’ The Witch.
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