Vin Diesel has been confirmed to be playing the lead hero in Mathieu Kassovitz's "Babylon A.D." reports VinXperience
The project is an adaptation of Maurice Dantec's "Babylon Babies", a cult French sci-fi novel set in the hidden "flesh and chip" breeding grounds of the first cyborg communities and peopled by Serbian Mafiosi.
Guillaume Colboc, head of development of Kassovitz's company MNP, confirmed the news of Diesel's involvement and that shooting will begin in November in Prague.
Diesel plays a hard-boiled leatherneck veteran mercenary named Toorop who is hired by a mysterious source a young woman from Russia to Canada. Seems the woman is carrying genetically modified embryo which an American cult believes to be their messiah.
