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A Hairy Diesel Says Find Me Guilty

By Garth Franklin Tuesday January 4th 2005 10:53PM

The latest issue of The Los Angeles Times ran an interesting article with a picture about "Find Me Guilty", Vin Diesel's next movie directed by honorary Oscar winner Sidney Lumet. Well, VinXperience has posted the key details online (and this pic), here they are:

""Find Me Guilty" is being made outside of the studio system. Financed by producer Bob Yari, shot in 30 days, the $13-million production does not yet have a domestic distributor or a release date.

When Lumet began work on the script, Joe Pesci was being courted to play the lead role. When negotiations with the "GoodFellas" star came to an impasse, Lumet lobbied for Diesel, having seen him in "Boiler Room" and "Multi-Facial."

"Every day on this movie was like opening night in the theater," Diesel said. "That's the challenging aspect, but also the rewarding aspect. You are going to be called on, in a roomful of 200 New York actors, to do a 10-minute speech."

Oh, and Vin is still bald. The reddish hair is just a wig".

Thanks to 'Kriszta'

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