Is this Vin Diesel‘s next failed franchise attempt? The guy is the center of the Fast and the Furious movies, but he hasn’t had much luck with other blockbuster efforts. I won’t count his vocal work as Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy. Or the Riddick movies, which have managed three installments without anyone really caring about them. Of course, his other potential franchise, xXx, was something he walked away from, so maybe it’s his own damn fault.
This one is called The Last Witch Hunter, a movie that sounds like a sequel to Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters where one of the siblings hasn’t survived. Diesel plays an immortal witch hunter — the last, presumably — named Kaulder who now must go up against the Queen Witch (Julie Engelbrecht) and other sorceresses in modern day New York City (shot in Pittsburg, it seems). Question: do any of these kinds of movies set in modern day New York City ever do well?
Maybe Diesel can make it work with help from a wildling (Game of Thrones‘ Rose Leslie), a hobbit (LOTR‘s Elijah Wood) and a guy who’ll apparently do any thing these days (Journey 2: Mysterious Island‘s Michael Caine). Plus, the original script by Cory Goodman made the 2010 Black List, so that’s a plus. We’ll see about the execution from director Breck Eisner (The Crazies) when it opens on October 23rd.
Here’s the official long synopsis:
The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy across the globe for centuries, including KAULDER, a valiant warrior who managed to slay the all-powerful QUEEN WITCH, decimating her followers in the process. In the moments right before her death, the QUEEN curses KAULDER with her own immortality, forever separating him from his beloved wife and daughter in the afterlife. Today KAULDER is the only one of his kind remaining, and has spent centuries hunting down rogue witches, all the while yearning for his long-lost loved ones. However, unbeknownst to KAULDER, the QUEEN WITCH is resurrected and seeks revenge on her killer causing an epic battle that will determine the survival of the human race.
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