Vin Diesel is sticking with family or, instead, the studio that produces the Fast and Furious movies. Diesel is set to star in and produce a live-action feature version of the famous Mattel tabletop boxing game Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots.
Ryan Engle, the writer behind the Rampage movie – which starred Diesel’s Fast and Furious castmate and Black Adam star, Dwyane Johnson – is set to pen the screenplay for the action-adventure. As reported by Variety, the story is said to follow a father and son who form an unlikely bond with an advanced war machine. A plot that is not to be mixed up with Hugh Jackman’s Real Steel from 2011.
Mattel Films is teaming up with Universal to produce and has other works on live-action adaptations of their other game and toy IPs, including Barbie, Barney, and Magic 8 Ball.
On the Universal side, the company is developing a feature version of the popular 90s tv series Wishbone and gearing up for the release of Fast and Furious 9, which finally hit theaters going a quarter mile an hour on June 25.
Read more: Fast and Furious 9 director Justin Lin breaks down the new trailer with GamesRadar+
