"Fast and Furious" actor Vin Diesel has revealed certain conditions prior to playing the silent Black Bolt in Marvel's upcoming film "Inhumans."
Diesel has been rumored to play the alpha of the Inhumans. In his interview with MTV, Diesel said it was not a matter of him "wooing" Marvel Studios, but it was a matter of the studio wooing him. The actor added that he loved the people in the studio; however, he wanted a good script and a great director, which he believed Marvel Studios Head Kevin Feige was capable of.
For Diesel, he admitted that he had been astonished when Feige suggested him to lend his voice to the humanoid tree Groot in James Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy" and he found it deep.
Diesel's statement was indicative that he was being hard to get for Marvel's "Inhumans," as per Cinema Blend. The publication added that Diesel was at the point in his calling wherein he could be selective with the film projects he would take, principally following the success of James Wan's "Furious 7," which now stands as the fourth highest grossing film this year.
In the comics, the exposure to Terrigen Mist gave Black Bolt extraordinary and threatening abilities, such as the ability to harness electrons. Black Bolt's speech center in his brain can manipulate electrons, in which a simple whisper can wreck a house. As a result, Black Bolt is enforced to keep quiet at all times, even while asleep.
Aside from a potential role in Marvel's "Inhumans," Diesel is set to appear in James Gunn's superhero sci-fi "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2," D.J. Caruso's action thriller film "xXx: The Return of Xander Cage," Ang Lee's war drama "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk," and F. Gary Gray's crime thriller "Fast and Furious 8."
"Inhumans" centers on an isolated community of people with unique abilities, fighting to defend themselves. No director has been attached to helm the film at this point while "Black Panther" screenwriter Joe Robert Cole is on board to pen the film script.
At this point, exact details on the plot, characters, and cast are yet to be revealed.
Marvel's "Inhumans" is slated to premiere in theaters in the United States on July 12, 2019 while Gunn's "Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2" hits theaters on May 5, 2017.