Vin Diesel joining new Sci Fi film The Machine

[Dream]

Hot off of Fast Five, Vin Diesel has come aboard to star and produce The Machine, an action comedy from MGM.

While MGM’s reputation around town is that of a remake factory, mining its library, Machine is an original project coming from Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, the writers of Night at the Museum who also worked with Diesel on his action comedy The Pacifier.

According to MGM, Diesel will play “a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon as the world's first true ultimate weapon. Twenty years after the project was buried and decommissioned for reasons unknown, The Machine is discovered by a kid who befriends him. When the government learns it has been reactivated, the Machine must protect the family harboring him.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/vin-diesel-produce-machine-mgm-190302

Hmmm... I wonder if this is going to be more thriller or family movie. Hoping it's not the latter.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Written by the Reno: 911 guys? Family movie, but maybe with a satiric bite?

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Kind of reminds me of Suburban Commando.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm wondering what this does to "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking". Last information we got from the movie was that they were scouting locations.

 

[Lonemagpie]

So it's a Pacifier remake with a Terminator? Ye gods, what's Diesel thinking?

 

[FordSVT]

So it's a Pacifier remake with a Terminator? Ye gods, what's Diesel thinking?

Of a paycheck to help finance the next Riddick movie.