![]() Pitch Black, which in 2000 encouraged the brooding tyro to flourish inside a tight genre frame, and its second sequel, Riddick, worked better partly because they were much more tightly budgeted ($23m and $38m respectively). ![]() Like the latter, The Last Witch Hunter – apparently inspired by Diesel’s own D&D character – is another pricey ($90m) indulgence of the actor’s taste for high fantasy, but there seems to be little broader appetite to follow him into big-canvas imaginative excursions. ![]() The gravel-chute-throated bruiser returned to the F&F series after big-budget diversions XXX and The Chronicles of Riddick failed him to secure a higher level of stardom in the mid-noughties. The $10.8m US debut for his new fantasy film The Last Witch Hunter is, even unadjusted for inflation, his second-worst result, just behind 2007 sci-fi film Babylon AD Witch Hunter didn’t do much better overseas, with the top two territories – the UK and Germany – failing to open higher than his last solo lead, 2013’s Riddick. ![]() The Fast and Furious franchise has become his fiefdom – but the reality is that he has little firepower as an action star outside of it. The clock is surely running down on the Vin Diesel project. ![]()
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