Vin Diesel nog steeds in gesprek met Marvel

Een paar weken geleden onthulde acteur Vin Diesel dat zijn ontmoetingen met Marvel Studios gaan over nieuwe films welke in 2016 zullen uitkomen. Dit heeft geleid tot zijn rol als Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, maar de gesprekken eindigen daar niet. In een interview met Maria Menousos zei Diesel dat hij en Marvel nog steeds in gesprek zijn over een rol in een mysterieuze Phase 3 film. Diesel zei:

“When I met with Marvel it wasn’t for anything immediate, it was to talk about a film that would be introduced in the Phase 3 part of Marvel, not for a few years. You wouldn’t be able to see it for a few years. In my mind, Marvel were doing it right, they were enrolling me at the ground level which is the best way to enroll me.”

“I get the call, I go down to Marvel. A great meeting. It was even talking about something so big I can’t even talk about because it’s like the merging of brands in a way, which I won’t get into. That was something way, way, way, way, way down the road.”

Hoewel Diesel op social media kleine hints geeft, is hij met Marvel tot de overeenkomst gekomen om geen details weg te geven tot aan Comic-Con:

“We had agreed not to say anything about the specifics of the meeting. So, now I’ve got the fans who I love more than I love the industry, than I love everybody… I was thinking “I’ve got to be real with them, I’ve got to tell them something and yet I want to be respectful of people’s process and if people like to do a slow reveal, you know?”

“Quite frankly, it would have been too much to say and it might have been anticlimactic to say ‘We’re working on something for 2016’ and so I just said ‘You’re going to hear some really big news’ and I left at the end of that and it went crazy.”

Diesel speelt Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy, maar zijn gesprekken met Marvel zijn nog niet voorbij:

“The next Monday, Marvel talks to me and says “We’re going to send something over in two weeks. We want to focus on the 2016 but we also want to, if possible, answer this growing request for something now.” I don’t have six months to play a character in the immediate future, it’s all booked… there was no way I was going to be able to deliver… after Comic-Con, we were at a stalemate…”

Nu hebben wij verschillende vragen. Wat is de film die gepland staat voor 2016? Wat bedoelt Vin Diesel met “Merging of brands”? Wanneer zullen we dit weten? Marvel heeft momenteel twee films zonder titel gepland in 2016 op 6 mei en 8 juli.

Het volledige interview is hieronder te bekijken.