{"id":217389,"date":"2020-03-23T09:55:32","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2020\/03\/23\/vin-diesel-says-spielberg-urges-him-to-get-to-direction\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:55:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T09:55:32","slug":"vin-diesel-says-spielberg-urges-him-to-get-to-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2020\/03\/23\/vin-diesel-says-spielberg-urges-him-to-get-to-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel says Spielberg urges him to get to direction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Hollywood star Vin Diesel could be calling the shots as a director more often if filmmaker Steven Spielberg has his way.<\/p>\n

Diesel had written, directed, and produced t in the self-starring 1997 movie “Strays”, in which he played a drug dealer looking for a better life. Earlier, he had also directed and starred in the 1995 short film “Multi-Facial”, which had led Spielberg to give him a role in his 1998 film, “Saving Private Ryan”.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with The National, the 52-year-old actor said director Spielberg has been encouraging him to direct more often, reports aceshowbiz.com. “Speaking of Steven Spielberg, I saw him recently, and he had said to me, ‘when I wrote the role for you in ‘Saving Private Ryan’, I was obviously employing the actor but I was also secretly championing thedirector in you, and you have not directed enough. That is a crime of cinema and you must get back in the directing chair.’” Diesel said.<\/p>\n

He added: “I haven’t directed enough.”<\/p>\n

The star went on to say he hopes to complete a planned film series about famed Carthaginian military leader Hannibal Barca, who fought the Romans during the Second Punic War around 200 BC.<\/p>\n

“I haven’t done it yet. As much as I am grateful for the accomplishments, there are moments when I go ‘God, you promised the universe, very specifically, the Hannibal Barca trilogy, and you haven’t delivered it. You travelled all over the world’,” he said. <\/p>\n

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