There may not be a geekier action star than Vin Diesel. Yes, Henry Cavill publicly talks about painting his Warhammer 40K miniatures. Dwayne Johnson tried to make an obscure DC antihero, Black Adam, into a whole thing, seemingly as a passion project. But it doesn’t get nerdier than Vin Diesel. Not only did he build his own sci-fi franchise, The Chronicles of Riddick, but he has to be the only A-lister in existence who also made a fantasy/action movie based on a character he created for Dungeons & Dragons. That’s right, the premise of the widely-panned 2015 fantasy film, The Last Witch Hunter, was spawned from a character that Diesel created for his own roleplaying group.
Here’s the question: Once you know that detail, can any self-professed fantasy nerd truly bring themselves to hate The Last Witch Hunter? Ten years after the movie debuted on October 23, 2015, there’s a sequel looming, and perhaps a flicker of nostalgia for the wackier era of Diesel. Yes, normies know Diesel as the patriarch of the Fast and Furious family, but the true believers will tell you that Kaulder, the titular Witch Hunter, is where it’s at.
