Michael Caine Will Come Out of Retirement for Vin Diesel and The Last Witch Hunter 2

Oscar victor Michael Caine, property 92, volition travel retired of status to marque a sequel to a movie helium did with Vin Diesel a decennary ago.

According to Variety, The Last Witch Hunter 2 “is being fast-tracked done improvement astatine Lionsgate and Diesel’s accumulation banner One Race Films.” Diesel volition reprise his relation arsenic Kaulder and Caine arsenic the 36th Dolan, though a woody with Caine isn’t last yet.

Caine was past seen connected surface successful 2023’s The Great Escaper. His storied vocation has seen him look successful respective classics – The Man Who Would Be King, Get Carter, Alfie, Sleuth – and arsenic a regular successful the films of Christopher Nolan, including The Dark Knight trilogy and Inception.

Caine retired successful 2023, saying astatine the time, "I support saying I'm going to retire. Well, I americium now. … I've figured, I've had a representation wherever I've played the pb and it's got unthinkable reviews. The lone parts I’m apt to get present are aged men...And I thought, good I mightiness arsenic good permission with each this — what person I got to bash to bushed this?"

Apparently, for Caine, The Last Witch Hunter 2 beats being retired.

Michael Caine and Vin Diesel astatine the premiere of The Last Witch Hunter. ((Photo: Anthony Harvey/Getty Images)

Caine raved astir Diesel successful his autobiography Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over, writing, "Vin’s special. I emotion Vin. ... We archetypal met astatine a meal enactment astir 30 years ago. I conscionable instinctively greeted him with a hug and announced to the full room, ‘This is my son!’"

Caine added, "Sometimes, you consciousness a connection. I conscionable liked the feline immediately, helium has a large heart."

Based connected Diesel’s Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, The Last Witch Hunter was a container bureau flop and captious dud erstwhile it came retired successful 2015. However, the movie was rediscovered successful the ensuing years acknowledgment to streaming and location video.

Lionsgate’s Adam Fogelson told Variety that “The Last Witch Hunter has grown since its theatrical merchandise into a planetary instrumentality favorite, with audiences continuing to observe and rewatch it crossed each level implicit the past decade. That enduring enthusiasm made wide determination is an appetite for much stories acceptable successful this world.”

Fogelson added that “advancements successful filmmaking exertion present let america to economically present a sequel connected an adjacent much ambitious scale.”

IGN was not a instrumentality of the archetypal film. “Despite Vin Diesel's action-star persona, The Last Witch Hunter delivers a lackluster phantasy crippled and bland, one-note characters -- including Diesel's,” Max Nicholson wrote successful his The Last Witch Hunter review, which helium scored a 5 retired of 10.

“While immoderate of the enactment scenes are amusive to watch, they're besides fleeting and bogged down with subpar CGI. In the end, The Last Witch Hunter is astir what you'd expect from watching the trailer: it's amusing connected occasion, but mostly forgettable.”

No connection yet connected erstwhile accumulation volition statesman connected The Last Witch Hunter 2.