![]() ![]() Theoretically, there’s no reason why these imperatives should be competing at all, but the reality is a feature film has a limited time frame in which to deliver all the necessary information for understanding it. Because it’s also urban fantasy story with magic and monsters and mythology, it has to spend considerable time building the world Kaulder and his friends live in and the rules they abide by. There’s a lot of ground to be covered by mining the inner life of someone who innately views the human experience from an alien perspective (and The Last Witch Hunter is at its best when it does so), but the film has its hands too full for that. Characters like the enigmatic Kaulder ( Vin Diesel), an 800-year old man who deals with the existential burden of immortality by focusing on work – in his case hunting down and killing witches. On the one hand they must perform the most elementary function of all successful fiction - creating engaging characters an audience will identify with. ![]() Stay tuned to see if any more cast members join the production, and we'll keep you posted as the film progresses.Introducing new and enticing fantasy requires juggling two competing imperatives, both necessary and neither particularly useful to the other. Anyway, production is supposed to begin next month, but there's no release date for the film from The Crazies director Breck Eisner. We'd love to be proven wrong, but this doesn't sound like a good idea. ![]() The mix of New York City with evil covens of witches just has flares of I, Frankenstein or other similarly strange misfires. Honestly, this sounds like one of those supernatural action flicks that doesn't quite connect. Though it's not clear what specific roles the actors have taken. Now Lionsgate has revealed that Lord of the Rings franchise star Elijah Wood has joined the cast along with The Dark Knight trilogy star Michael Caine. The film stars Fast & Furious franchise star Vin Diesel as an immortal witch hunter who partners with his natural enemy, a female witch ( Rose Leslie of "Game of Thrones"), to stop the covens of New York City from unleashing a plague on humanity. In what might make for one of the strangest assemblies of talent in front of the camera we've seen in awhile, the cast of The Last Witch Hunter is filling out. ![]()
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