Only for his bestie Vin Diesel will the legendary Michael Caine grace the silver screen again. The 92-year-old actor announced he was retiring a few years ago, but you can’t keep the endeared genre king out of the game for too long.
Caine was last seen in The Great Escaper back in 2023. However, with The Last Witch Hunter sequel in the works, Variety reports that Lionsgate has approached the actor to reprise his role as Father Dolan. The production company is pushing the development of the Vin Diesel fantasy film follow-up feature through the process of being fast-tracked in collaboration with the actor’s production banner, One Race Films.
In The Last Witch Hunter, Caine portrayed Diesel’s mentor, who assists in stopping a witch’s plague from ending their world. The series is based on Diesel’s own Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. The film was released in 2015 and earned $147 million in the global box office, topping its budget of $90 million.
The deal has yet to be finalized but if you’re acutely aware and present in online film discourse, there was recently a series of pictures of Diesel and Caine hanging out that went viral. So we expect this one last ride to happen and we cannot wait. Their pure friendship is, of course, an endearing real-life case of Vin Diesel making his love for his film-found family known. Pushing Sir Michael Caine around in a wheelchair for shenanigans is the mark of a true ride or die.
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