2026, where reading entertainment industry news requires occasionally driving over a land mine of a sentence like “he gave a special shout-out to the ‘Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots’ movie, which he will star in and write for Mattel Studios”
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/vin-diesel-behind-the-scenes-fast-forever-1236801804/
Before you ask: Vin Diesel is not _completely_ without writing credits. He just doesn’t have many
@jalefkowit boosted this before seeing the article headline
@jalefkowit finally getting to do what he really wanted to all along
Jul 5, 2026, 4:45 PM@jalefkowit
I now blame you for that film possibly existing. The robots film. Well, both of them.
@jalefkowit Another interesting tidbit about Vin Diesel is that he wrote the forward to the Thirty Years of Adventure book about the history of D&D (on its 30th anniversary). He’s a big geek, apparently.
@ramsey @jalefkowit I believe he introduced Judi Dench to D&D, too.
@benjamineskola @jalefkowit I had no idea she played!
Jul 5, 2026, 5:08 PM@jalefkowit didn't they already basically make that?