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February 24, 2006

The Fast and the Futuristic

Diesel_on_bike_1 The French entertainment publication Allocine has reported that action-movie stalwart Vin Diesel has been cast as the lead in Babylon A.D., a big-budget screen adaptation of Maurice Dantec’s underground science fiction thriller Babylon Babies. Diesel's credits include the blockbusters xXx, The Fast and the Furious, and The Pacifier. He is rumored to be cast as the lead, a mercenary named Thoorop who is hired to escort a young woman pregnant with a mutant embryo, a genetically modified messiah whose birth may signal the end of human life as we know it.

Directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (Gothika), the movie will begin shooting in Eastern Europe and Canada in June 2006 and is slated for release in 2007.

February 24, 2006 in Fiction/Science Fiction |

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