Vin Diesel surrendered to MTV's questions about his Marvel meeting, while artfully avoiding any specific confirmations. He demonstrated that cool, gravely laugh, cautiously treading into top-secret territory at Comic-Con on Friday (July 19).
The last time Diesel came to SDCC, he was promoting a little movie called "Pitch Black." Thirteen years later, he returned to unleash some killer red-band footage from "Riddick" to a vocal Hall H crowd. While the in-depth look at Diesel's third cinematic turn as the goggle-wearing outer space badass was supercool, Twitter feeds were abuzz after he let slip a little Marvel Universe tidbit. "There is some very big news coming at the end of this month," he teased.
Will Vin Diesel Join The 'Marvel' Universe As Vision?
Well, that certainly did little to quell the rampant speculation and excitement he ignited a short while ago when he took to social media to post about his mysterious meeting with Marvel. While he was ostensibly talking with MTV News to promote his R-rated return to the "Riddick" universe, the big super-powered elephant in the room was too big to ignore.
The big, super-powered green and yellow "elephant."
"Oh God, Oh God. Wow. Uh... Hmm, uh..." he stuttered at the mention of the "M" word.
"Well, [to discuss it] in theory," he began, cautiously."I didn't know there were over eight-thousand characters in their library. Did you? Did you?! Eight-thousand characters! They were saying, 'You know, Vin, we have eight-thousand characters...' "
So, did they open up a book and say, "Which one do you want?"
"No!" he said, laughing."I mean, ya' know, I hope there's more thought than that. I mean, there's two Visions, for the record. And people know one was created by Ultron, one was created by Proctor, as you know, if you follow..."
MTV chatted with Aaron Taylor-Johnson during Comic-Con for Kick-Ass 2 and directly asked the actor on what’s going on with Quicksilver in The Avengers 2 and he didn’t even attempt to deny it, coming off with a tone that he’s in talks or perhaps even confirmed for the role.
“Oh, that’s um, I don’t think I can talk about that, but it’s definitely an exciting prospect…”
He continues, after being asked if he’s been reading up on the character:
“Yeah, it really is. [Quicksilver] has a really interesting character and background. In fact, my wife has just been out and bought the first ever cover, a really really old vintage one where it’s the first time Quicksilver’s ever been on the front cover.”
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tl;dr version: Vin Diesel has gotten a part in the MCU, which will be announced at the end of the month. Speculation is that he will play Vision (which I find unlikely but w/e). Aaron Taylor-Johnson is/was supposedly the front-runner to play Quicksilver in Avengers 2, and he isn't denying that he got the part.Both of these characters remain boring.
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tl;dr version: Vin Diesel has gotten a part in the MCU, which will be announced at the end of the month. Speculation is that he will play Vision (which I find unlikely but w/e). Aaron Taylor-Johnson is/was supposedly the front-runner to play Quicksilver in Avengers 2, and he isn't denying that he got the part.