Hence The Last Witch Hunter, a feature film that feels like a longish TV pilot, or like the prequel to the Witch Hunter sequel that Diesel told his Facebook fans the studio was “already commencing” back in June. Nobody liked it, and 2013’s back-to-badass-basics sequel Riddick dialed the world-building way down, but it’s clear that Diesel still wants a sprawling multi-film fantasy franchise to call his own, and that voicing a tree with a three-word vocabulary in endless Guardians of the Galaxy sequels isn’t going to scratch that itch. His Vinnermost desires came through the clearest in 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick, a dumb but deeply felt attempt to expand the Pitch Black universe into a Star Wars or Lord of the Rings–style mega-mythology involving an interstellar death cult called the Necromongers and their quest for an interdimensional Valhalla called the Underverse. Diesel may still be built like the nightclub bouncer he once was, but deep down, in the android’s dungeon of his heart, he’s a huge nerd, with a nerd’s passion for encyclopedically detailed fictional universes. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion it was also the name that Diesel gave his all-time favorite Dungeons & Dragons player-character, a dark elf who specialized in - wait for it - hunting witches. Melkor was the name of a Lucifer-like fallen-angel figure in J.R.R. In 2002’s xXx, Vin Diesel’s extreme athlete turned superspy alter ego Xander Cage had the word MELKOR tattooed across his lower abdomen.
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