While there are plenty of detractors in general when it comes to Vin Diesel for his work in the Fast & Furious films, he’s been pretty involved in film for a long time and has a huge number of followers, especially when you see how he deals with them on his expansive Facebook community. He’s got a new video interview out that runs just about an hour with Maria Menounos that’s really engaging to watch overall, but it has some very specific things when it comes to the Marvel Studios dialogue that has gone on in the past few months.
“When I met with Marvel it wasn’t for anything immediate, it was to talk about a film that would be introduced in the Phase 3 part of Marvel, not for a few years. You wouldn’t be able to see it for a few years. In my mind, Marvel were doing it right, they were enrolling me at the ground level which is the best way to enroll me.”
“I get the call, I go down to Marvel. A great meeting. It was even talking about something so big I can’t even talk about because it’s like the merging of brands in a way, which I won’t get into. That was something way, way, way, way, way down the road.”
“We had agreed not to say anything about the specifics of the meeting. So, now I’ve got the fans who I love more than I love the industry, than I love everybody… I was thinking “I’ve got to be real with them, I’ve got to tell them something” and yet I want to be respectful of people’s process and if people like to do a slow reveal, you know?”"
“Quite frankly, it would have been too much to say and it might have been anticlimactic to say ‘We’re working on something for 2016′ and so I just said ‘You’re going to hear some really big news’ and I left at the end of that and it went crazy.”
“The next Monday, Marvel talks to me and says “We’re going to send something over in two weeks. We want to focus on the 2016 but we also want to, if possible, answer this growing request for something now.” I don’t have six months to play a character in the immediate future, it’s all booked… there was no way I was going to be able to deliver… after Comic-Con, we were at a stalemate…”
[Source: Bleeding Cool]