Vin Diesel In The Terminator 4?

Vin-Diesel-TerminatorThe news for Terminator 4 just seems to be getting worse and worse. Just yesterday we posted about how it looks like McG may end up being the director for the film… now comes word that Mr. Fast and Furious may indeed be picking up the Arnie mantle and taking the lead in the film… yup… word right now is that Vin Diesel is in talks to be the next terminator. The folks at RopeofSilicon give us this:

(The movie will) center on the fate of the Earth following the war of the machines as John Connor conducts his resistance. Now, today, we learn who may become our very first human simulated time traveling killing machine. Ain’t It Cool News the man that may be skinning up the metal is none other than Vin Diesel.

I swear, if it was even close to April 1st right now I wouldn’t believe this story for a moment. But what can you say? Diesel has a career that has sputtered to say the least in the last few years… it already looks like he’s going back to the well with Fast and Furious (which he refused to do before, apparently because it was beneath him… guess it’s not beneath him anymore) and now the Terminator?

To me this would seem like very strange casting. You can cast “names” in any other role… but for the Terminator, a franchise that is so associated with its former star (Arnie), I think it would be a much better move to go with a less conspicuous actor than someone like Vin Diesel. Just my two cents worth.

What do you think about this? Do you think Diesel would make a good terminator or do you think this would be a mistake?

  • http://www.dreamrealment.com Avri Apocaltpse

    Wow. I really wish they could get Vin is as the Terminator. I think it’d be the perfect project for him. He’s been missing in action for some time now and the films he’s done really hasn’t cemented his image as the ultimate Hollywood action star. Chronicles would probably be the closest.
    The Rock really doesn’t need T4 on his Resume. He’s doing well by himself. Vin on the other hand could use a spice up. Plus he’d be very believable as a bad guy. Even more so that Rocky. Ironically I don’t think McG is gonna use any big names or focus on the Terminators as much. Even Christian Bale would have been a cool Terminator. Hell, even a muscular Terminator chick would be cool.

    -Avri.

  • http://Yahoo.com Michael Mills

    I think ven diesel woul make an excellent candient to play the next terminator and a killing machine? He is big and strong enough to play the effective killing machine as the Terminator! but who is going to be the protector of John Connor or is John Connor full grown adult and the alone resistant leader and the leader the man kind?
    Michael Mills

  • http://www.myspace.com/vin99 Toorop

    I personally think Vin would make a good terminator. I mean if the movie is being set in the future with the war already going on then, john connor and the resistance are fighting all the models right..? so if thats the cast Vin gets the starting role of alot of the terminators, then the CG guys can throw in the T-101, T-1000, and what ever model the girl was.