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EW: VDIES talks [HANBL]. sounds like the "trilogy" is Universal's to lose
As far as that social media’s concerned, I feel like I’ve satisfied two of the three most prominent promises that I started the page with. The first was that you would see Riddick, even though it took nine years. The other was that you would see the continuation of the Dom/Letty story. That was also an impossibility. And then the third I didn’t do yet.
Are you referring to the Hannibal the Conqueror project?
That’s the hardest one. I was just looking at a script, 10 years old, by David Franzoni, that was my first Hannibal draft. To think that 10 years later, we’re still marching towards the Alps is surreal. Now, after Universal’s seen me produce this Fast trilogy, they are much more cautious about letting [the Hannibal] trilogy go to another studio. Now they feel like: “This is the trilogy guy, this is the guy who thinks in trilogies, he can do that.” There is another studio that’s saying they want to do all three films, do the trilogy.
It sounds like a pretty large-scale undertaking.
You just keep building. I’ve had Frank Miller in storyboard meetings, where he couldn’t resist taking a pen and drawing out panels for Hannibal. I’ve had Tarantino in my house acting out scenes he’d love to see in the movie. Acting them out! Probably the last great director meeting I had was with Tony Scott. He [told me that] Denzel Washington’s always wanted him to do Hannibal. And he said: “But after looking at the story, after talking to you, we should get Denzel to play your father, Hamilcar Barca.” And that came from Tony Scott, who was just the nicest and most terrific man, one of the nicest directors I’ve ever met in my life.
When your dream’s about to come true, when you’re about to get that shot, it’s like: “Holy s—! Is this really gonna happen? Am I sure I’m ready to immortalize or to channel this spirit that’s been dormant for 2,000 years, and never represented right?”
Time to start practicing riding war elephants!
I started practicing riding African elephants 10 years ago.
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/05/10/vin-diesel-hannibal-fast-riddick/
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EW: VDIES talks [HANBL]. sounds like the "trilogy" is Universal's to lose May 10, 11:34