Vin Diesel Teases a "Merging of Brands" for Marvel

It's becoming quickly apparent that Riddick star Vin Diesel has some of the loosest lips in Hollywood, and his latest revelation is one of the most intriguing. In a lengthy interview with presenter Maria Menounos, Diesel teased a future "merging of brands" for Marvel Studios.

While we can't be sure of what Diesel means - his answers are as always, deliciously cryptic - it's definitely related to his previous revelation that he originally met with Marvel to talk about a new Phase Three movie.  Here's a part of his interview with Menounos:

"When I met with Marvel it wasn't for anything immediate, it was to talk about a film that would be introduced in the Phase 3 part of Marvel, not for a few years. "You wouldn't be able to see it for a few years. In my mind, Marvel were doing it right, they were enrolling me at the ground level which is the best way to enroll me.

I had heard people over the last year, people saying on the social media page saying "What's up Vin? Why aren't you going to Marvel? Why aren't you doing anything with Marvel? It would be a crime of cinematic history for you not to be in (Marvel movies)"

So I was thinking "This Marvel thing is really becoming really important for these people. What can I do? What should I think about?"

I get the call, I go down to Marvel. A great meeting. It was even talking about something so big I can't even talk about because it's like the merging of brands in a way, which I won't get into. That was something way, way, way, way, way down the road."

As we know, his appearance at Comic-Con lead to a more immediate role as the tree-monster Groot in James Gunn's upcoming Phase Two Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

"We had agreed not to say anything about the specifics of the meeting. So, now I've got the fans that I love more than I love the industry, than I love everybody... I was thinking 'I've got to be real with them, I've got to tell them something' and yet I want to be respectful of people's process and if people like to do a slow reveal, you know?

Quite frankly, it would have been too much to say and it might have been anticlimactic to say 'We're working on something for 2016' and so I just said 'You're going to hear some really big news' and I left at the end of that and it went crazy. The next Monday, Marvel talks to me and says 'We're going to send something over in two weeks. We want to focus on the 2016 but we also want to, if possible, answer this growing request for something now.'"

Diesel's claims are vague enough that our imaginations can run riot for what this collaboration in 2016 could be. A "merging of brands" could suggest merging Marvel Studios' brands with another brand entirely - Sony's Spider-Man, perhaps? Or, as some are speculating, Diesel could be referring to himself as a brand, which is a little hilarious.

Whatever the case, we can be sure that Vin Diesel and Marvel aren't done with each other yet.

via Bleeding Cool.

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