Vin Diesel just might be Groot.
The Fast and The Furious franchise actor is in negotiations to join
Marvel’s newest ensemble tent pole, I’ve learned. If it all works out, Vin Diesel would play the tree-like alien in the James Gunn-directed
Guardians of the Galaxy, sources say. Earlier today, Diesel posted a captionless pic of Groot up on his Facebook page. For a while the drawing from the
GOTG comic (see left) stood as his cover page before being taken down and then disappeared all together from his public timeline. Studio boss
Kevin Feige made no mention on August 10 of Diesel joining
GOTGduring Marvel’s presentation at Day 2 of
D23. Marvel showed the same footage from the recently started lensing
GOTG,which stars Chris Pratt, Benicio del Toro, Zoe Saldana
and Glenn Close, as he did at Comic-Con in July. The Groot character can absorb wood to gain strength and recover from injuries as well as control trees. While hyper-intelligent, the alien seems to only ever say the line “I am Groot” over and over to those who cannot hear his real voice.
