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My reality, he says, is I wake up and go, I haven't done the Hannibal trilogy.
He first started talking about this 18 years ago.
His desire to make a trilogy about Hannibal Barker,
the Carthaginian general, one of the greatest wartime generals in history,
the man who in 218 BC led a troop of elephants over the Alps to invade Italy.
I promised myself I would try to make the Hannibal trilogy.
Part of creating mythology in Riddick and creating worlds like Fast in some bizarre way was preparation for the ultimate task.
He will do it, he says.
So that's a profile of the actor Vin Diesel,