Do you know what it’s like to live forever? You may not, but Vin Diesel certainly does. At least in The Last Witch Hunter, which has just released its full trailer.
The movie, directed by Breck Eisner, finds Diesel as an immortal warrior who ends up in present-day New York having to face down a powerful witch queen intent on unleashing a terrible plague that could wipe out the human race.
His chief ally in the fight, however, is a female witch (Game Of Thrones’ Rose Leslie), who teams up with him to help take down the rising evil. We get a little more background on Leslie in particular here, with the revelation that she’s a “Dream Walker” who can cross between our world and the magical realm of the witches, a handy talent that Diesel’s Kaulder must exploit to put a stop to the queen’s dastardly plan. There’s just one small catch – like The Matrix and Inception, if you die in the dream realm, you die in real life too. Cue this guy.
Wood, meanwhile, plays a young priest who is sworn to help Diesel in his struggle, with Julie Engelbrecht as the main villain and Michael Caine and Ólafur Darri Ólafsson aboard. Diesel, with typical bravado, is already talking up the idea of a sequel, but the film will have to perform first. Life’s a witch in the UK from October 23.