Diesel described it as 'a D&D-influenced genre liv in a Bond-like cinematic world.' And so it did - Goodman ended up writing the entire film around Diesel's fictional character, setting the archaic game in a contemporary tone. Goodman was also an avid Dungeons & Dragons fan, and the friend Diesel alludes to in his Screen Rant interview thought their shared love for the game could produce an exciting movie. Shortly after that reminiscence, a mutual friend arranged a meeting between Diesel and a writer named Cory Goodman, who would eventually pen The Last Witch Hunter's screenplay. Tolkien's posthumous collection The Silmarillion. He cast himself as a character named Melkor, which he borrowed from J.R.R. In the foreword, he explains that he played the game religiously in his childhood (and, evidently, still does just see the above promo 'Dungeons & Diesel' for evidence that he's just a very swole dork). First off, Diesel told ScreenRant that he was asked to write a foreword to the 30th anniversary edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Because Diesel didn't make this movie happen on his own - it actually emerged out of a few different coincidental projects. “He understands world building and how that affects an audience.' So, absurd as it might sound in theory, in practice, Diesel has constructed a credible fantasy world populated by witches, witch hunters, wizards, and more other-worldly denizens.īut let's leave The Last Witch Hunter for a moment and get back to Dungeons and Dragons.

'One of the things about his playing so much Dungeons & Dragons is that Vin has a great mind for creating mythology,” director Breck Eisner told Entertainment Weekly. The actor and action hero is a notorious Dungeons & Dragons player, and his character in the film, Kaulder, is based in part on one of his preferred characters in the game, a witch hunter who is also an elf. But it's not a book that inspired Diesel - it was a certain popular fantasy role-playing game. The Last Witch Hunter, as Comic Books Resource tells it, was borne of Diesel's personal penchant for a good fantasy adventure. (Rose Leslie's witch is a goodie.) Such a fantastic plot seems like it must have emerged fully-fledged from a fantasy-aisle pulp novel, and as though The Last Witch Hunter were based on a book. He teams up with a priest and a witch, played by Elijah Wood and Rose Leslie, respectively, in order to strike back against the evil witches. The witches and Diesel declare an uneasy truce, but one that lasts for centuries - at least, until the witches attack Diesel's friend and companion Michael Caine. Vin Diesel plays an 800+-year-old warrior cursed to immortality by a witch queen he killed.

The Last Witch Hunter might be one of the most outlandish films coming out this year.

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