Vin Diesel Making A Rockem Sockem Robots LiveAction Movie

Vin Diesel Making A Rock’em Sock’em Robots Live-Action Movie

Vin Diesel will star in a Rock’em Sock’em Robots movie for Universal Pictures, the studio behind his long-running Fast & Furious franchise.

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Vin Diesel will star in and produce a live-action Rock’em Sock’em Robots movie under his banner One Race Films alongside Mattel Films and Universal Pictures, the studio behind Diesel’s long-running Fast & Furious franchise. From relatively humble beginnings in 2001’s The Fast and the Furious, a mid-budget movie primarily centered around illegal street racing, Diesel has starred as Dominic Toretto in almost every installment of what has become a massive media franchise. The latest installment, Fast & Furious 9, is set to release this summer.

Initially released by Louis Marx and Company in 1964, Rock’em Sock’em Robots is a classic two-player tabletop game designed by Marvin Glass and Associates. The game features one red and one blue robot (known as Red Rocker and Blue Bomber) wherein the objective is for each player to sock the other’s robot until their head is knocked off. In the 2000s, the game was redesigned by Mattel, which owns a subdivision called Mattel Films responsible for movies based on properties like Hot Wheels and Barbie and another series based on a line of toys in Max Steel.

Now, Diesel is teaming up with Mattel Films and Universal Pictures to star in a live-action adaptation of the iconic table-top game Rock’em Sock’em Robots. With a screenplay penned by Ryan Engle, the writer behind the Dwayne Johnson-led Rampage and the Liam Neeson film The Commuter, Diesel’s Rock’em Sock’em Robots will follow “a father and son who form an unlikely bond with an advanced war machine,” according to details shared by Deadline. Diesel will produce the project under his One Race Films label alongside his sister Samantha Vincent.

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“To take the classic Rock’em Sock’em game, with Mattel as my partner, and align it with the kind of world-building, franchise-making success we have had with Universal is truly exciting,” Diesel said in a statement. Mattel Films is also developing numerous other projects based on its properties, such as Hot Wheels, Barbie, American Girl dolls, Barney, Magic 8 Ball, Thomas the Tank Engine, and UNO.

Outside of the Fast Saga, Diesel has not had much luck with franchise filmmaking, with The Chronicles of Riddick and Babylon A.D. flopping. Diesel is looking to capitalize on an already established IP with the hopes of starting another successful film franchise. Based on cases of past movies based on tabletop games, such as Battleship, it can be challenging to spawn a film franchise from source material that provides no innate narrative. With a premise that sounds reminiscent of Real Steel, it remains to be seen what type of longstanding success Diesel hopes to achieve with Rock’em Sock’em Robots.

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