'The Last Witch Hunter' is clearly lost in the woods. If getting eyes on your finished product is the main concern, box office receipts aren’t the be all, end all: The Last Witch Hunter tries too hard to be an epic fantasy saga, and ends up being an incoherent mess. But Diesel does make a good point when you consider how accessible movies become thanks to streaming and VOD platforms after their big screen runs. The Last Witch Hunter Now Playing: The Last Witch Hunter Summary: The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live amongst us vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. “When a Last Witch Hunter comes out and it doesn’t destroy the box office you, under the old thinking, would go, ‘Well, maybe I should focus on something else.’ But nowadays what’s fascinating is that movies find you somehow.”įrom the distributor perspective, big budget movies finding an audience kind of has to happen during the theatrical rollout to justify the expense. Using The Last Witch Hunter as an example, Diesel explained: The Casting Characters of The Last Witch Hunter 2.
While chatting with Diesel for his March 13th release Bloodshot, I asked him how he forges forward when a passion project doesn’t pan out as hoped.