Vin Diesel is a Wheelman

I like Vin Diesel, sure he's not a great actor but he has a true screen presence and is ambitious, perhaps too ambitious. After the huge success of the original 'The Fast and The Furious' he wanted to branch out and expand, I think he made that move too quickly, he should have gotten a couple more action hits under his belt first. So now with the recent success of the 4th installment of the Furious franchise he's back in demand, lining up a role in the adaption of a videogame he starred in according to variety.

Paramount Pictures has set John Singleton to direct and Lorenzo di Bonaventura to produce The Wheelman, a live-action adaptation of the Ubisoft video game "Wheelman." The game launched last month, with Diesel as its main character and the game's producer.

Diesel will play an expert driver who comes out of retirement to protect a woman from his past.
Rich Wilkes wrote the script; the writing team of Oliver Butcher and Stephen Cornwell did a rewrite.

I like Paramount as a studio and Singleton is a solid director. this isn't going to be great but it could be a decent action flick and a hit for Diesel as it stays pretty much in the same territory as his most popular role. If he can get a few of these action hits under his belt we may finally get his long planned Hannibal biopic (The Conqueror not the leader of The A Team).