Vin Diesel is The Machine

Vin Diesel's following up Fast Five with a starring role in MGM's The Machine. Diesel will also produce the action comedy written by those Reno 911! guys Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant. Lennon and Garant also wrote the Night at the Museum films and The Pacifier, which Diesel starred in.

MGM says Diesel's set to play "a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon as the world's first true ultimate weapon. Twenty years after the project was buried and decommissioned for reasons unknown, The Machine is discovered by a kid who befriends him. When the government learns it has been reactivated, the Machine must protect the family harboring him."

Filming's expected to begin this fall, however MGM still needs to sign up a director.

Also of Interest:

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