"I'm done with the Marvel hero. What would be exciting that no one has come to me with yet would be a villain that we are familiar with in Marvel and showing the complexities of..." Diesel has one in mind but he's not revealing who it is just yet.

What's our guess? Red Skull, he's such a bad dude that it might be the break out character that Diesel is looking for, there is nothing redeeming about Captain America's Nazi enemy. Plus we know that they're making the Captain America film so it could be possible.

For the video interview and a few other villainous suggestions check out MTV's Spalsh Page.

In the film, Vin Diesel plays Toorop, an ex-mercenary who is getting paid to transport an important girl from one end of the globe to another, while dodging enemy fire and hiding from the oppressive government. But according to Kassovitz, it should have been so much more. He worked on a project whose main point was to focus on refugee trafficking in a gritty tomorrow, as well as political issues like censorship and a declining educational system. Instead, Kassovitz told AMC's Scifi Scanner:

"It's pure violence and stupidity," he admits. "The movie is supposed to teach us that the education of our children will mean the future of our planet. All the action scenes had a goal: They were supposed to be driven by either a metaphysical point of view or experience for the characters... instead parts of the movie are like a bad episode of 24."

Kassovitz places the blame for Babylon AD squarely on the studio.

"Fox was sending lawyers who were only looking at all the commas and the dots," he says. "They made everything difficult from A to Z."

And now it's been revealed that Fox carelessly hacked away a large bulk of the plot in the editing room — about 15 minutes, but still enough to make Diesel joke that his entire performance is on the cutting room floor. Still Kassovitz did say that there are a few moments where he is pleased with the end result. Though he was quick to add that he didn't think anybody would prefer his film over Batman.

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Looks like Aurora's special powers are slowing down space and time with her mind beams. Also, her lady pal Sister Rebecca can kick a lot of karate ass. Oh yeah and Thoorop has robot hands and dies, he says so himself.

Here's the official synopsis:

Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

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Last year, dystopian future movie Babylon A.D. held a contest on MySpace to generate user video to appear on video screens in the background of some of the film's scenes:

[Director] Mathieu [Kassovitz]'s goal is to enhance the authenticity of this film by adding futuristic and innovative ads and fake news footage. We will integrate them, throughout the film on various screens : futuristic TVs, personal tablets, vehicles and especially on a huge scale, on the sides of New York buildings. That is why he thought he should launch this contest to give a chance to anyone who wishes to show their vision of the future.

To be fair, we already didn't have high hopes for this film, based on reports that Diesel threw a ton of hissy fits on the set, and the filming went severely over budget and off schedule. And the synopsis sounds very Ultraviolet-esque: In the near future, society has collapsed, as it tends to in near-future movies. And Dieslel is a mercenary, who's hired to bring a young woman (Melanie Thierry) and a nun (Michelle Yeoh!) from Russia to China. But it turns out the girl carries a virus that allows you to shape your own DNA, or attain a new level of consciousness, or something. It's really not clear. And a whole bunch of different groups are fighting over her, including religious nuts. Diesel has to keep her safe through demilitarized zones and fight clubs and Blade Runner-esque nightmares.

It sounds like something you'll want to watch on DVD — in the director's cut. [Twitch Film]

The other two insane moments in Pitch: Vin Diesel's drug-addicted parole officer gets impaled and then decapitated by one of the monsters. And then Diesel gets so pissed off he wrestles one of the monsters. He's so angry, his head gets weirdly distorted and elongated. You can see his fury through the monster's weird ghost vision. He punches the monster so hard its organs come flying out. Go Vin. Why is he not the most famous action movie star in America?

Movies we're looking forward to:

The Signal (Feb. 22). A weird signal takes over TVs, radios and cell phones, and makes everybody lose their shit. The tagline is "Do you have the crazy?" and it's become our new standard greeting. The buzz about this horror/SF hybrid from Sundance was pretty exciting. Divided into three segments, with three different directors, the stories of people driven berzerk by mass communications include killing sprees and demented sex. In the neopolis of Terminus City.

Outlander (early 2008). Okay. Alien versus Vikings. If that doesn't thrill you, your heart is made of dung. In a nutshell, Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Christ) is an alien whose spaceship crashes in ancient Norway. He soon realizes the crash had another survivor, a rampaging monster called the Moorwen. So Caviezel has to convince the feuding Viking clans to work together to destroy the best. It's like Beowulf, with space guns.

The Incredible Hulk (June 13). Ang Lee has lowered our expectations to the point where any Hulk movie that doesn't feature mutant poodles will thrill us. But it also sounds as though this version will stick to monster-movie basics. The Hulk's daddy issues will be in the background where they belong. And Edward Norton gives good man-with-monster-inside, judging from American History X.

The Dark Knight (July 18). Batman Begins wasn't perfect (Ra's Al Ghul was a boring villain) but it did have the right pulpy feel. And Knight could be the rare sequel that improves on the original, thanks to Heath Ledger's angry-nerd Joker. The viral Gotham Times site, with details on the crime war, overcrowded mental institutions and families fleeing Gotham, makes us feel director Christopher Nolan's Gotham is a real place, not just a fantasy backdrop.

CJ7 (Jan. 31). Stephen Chow is veering into science fiction after a string of kung-fu hits. This story of a semi-homeless guy who scavenges a toy for his son (played by a girl) will probably drip with sentimentality, but it also looks inventive and crazy as hell. The junkyard toy turns out to be an alien dog, which could kick Wall-E's ass in a cuteness contest. And then the boy/girl gets transported into space, and (judging from the trailer) things get kind of trippy.

Movies we're cautiously optimistic about:

Iron Man (May 2). The suit looks cool. We're glad they're keeping the storyline of Tony Stark being a weapon-mongering asshole who learns a lesson. But it also looks seriously cartoony, and it's from the director of Elf and Zathura.

Franklyn (unknown). The sequences of Ryan Philippe in his spooky mask in the city of crazy religions sound awesome. The other stuff, about people in the here and now having emotional crises, sounds less awesome and more IFC-ish. But we trust director Gerald Morrow when he says all three storylines finally come together somehow.

Death Race (Sept. 26). A super-champion racer (Jason Statham) is convicted of a crime he didn't commit. His only hope is to race cross-country in a tricked out car with rocket launchers and shit, for the amusement of the multitudes. Another remake, plus another movie by Paul W.S. Anderson (Mortal Kombat). It'll probably be a guilty pleasure.

Cloverfield (Jan. 18) Better to think of this as a cheesy monster movie with an artsy twist (the handheld video cameras) than to build it up as a masterpiece in the making. The script from Drew (Buffy, Alias) Goddard will probably have some clever bits. And if Cloverfield rolls in enough clover, it could usher in a whole crazy new era of low-fi monster movies.

Speed Racer (May 9). It'll be a fun ride, judging from the trailer. But the Wachowskis are sticking too close to the source material's kiddie cartoon roots. And we're scared we'll have weird dreams about John Goodman's mustache after seeing this film.

Movies we're dreading in depths of our marrow:

Star Trek (Dec. 25) We've already explained our reasons why Star Trek should stay dead in general. But this movie, in particular, sounds horrendous. We lost all hope when they announced Leonard Nimoy is coming back as Spock. That means instead of a pure reboot, it has to be some sort of continuity-heavy restart. They'll have to use either time travel or flashbacks to justify Nimoy. But also, didn't we already go back to the beginning with the TV show Enterprise? We're predicting a very expensive flop that will make back its money overseas.

The Day The Earth Stood Still (Dec. 12) The words "Keanu Reeves as Klaatu" froze our blood. Keanu's biggest problem is his flat, stoner delivery, so having him play a super-bland alien might not be the best idea. But also, the original Earth Stood Still was such a product of Cold War anxieties that a remake will just feel like a nostalgia trip.

Babylon A.D. (Aug. 29). We love Vin Diesel and Michelle Yeoh, but this is just sounding more and more like a trainwreck. It had a troubled shooting, with delays, budget overruns and epic battles between Diesel and director Matthieu Kassovitz. Add in the fact that Kassovitz's previous film, Gothika, was universally panned. And the U.S. cut of Babylon will be 30 minutes shorter than the European release, so there's speculation our version may not even make sense.

Starship Dave (May 30). Pluto Nash wasn't enough. Eddie Murphy has to star in another kiddie SF comedy. And this one has a premise designed to lead to more slapstick than three Norbits put together. A group of tiny aliens led by Murphy travel to Earth in a spaceship disguised as a human (Murphy again), and they control him remotely. It sounds like an acid-induced remake of Steve Martin's All Of Me.

Hancock (July 2). The trailer confirmed our worst fears. After a string of serious roles, Will Smith is going to dust off his comedy chops to play a lame drunken superhero who falls for his image consultant's wife. There are two main problems right off the bat: Will Smith has done well in comedies where he's the straight man (Men In Black), but he's not so great at playing the fool. And superhero comedies like My Super Ex-Girlfriend usually don't have enough respect for the material to be funny.

February's Jumper is a Heroes-y movie from Doug Liman (Bourne Identity). Teenager David Rice tries to flee his abusive father — and then discovers he can teleport himself anywhere, instantly. As an adult (played by Hayden Christensen), David is reunited with his long-lost mother, only to see her killed. So he uses his teleporting power to search for the man he believes is responsible for the death of his mother, while dodging CIA recruiters. His Neo-esque posturing draws the attention of an NSA agent (Samuel L. Jackson) who's also a member of the ancient sect of Paladins, dedicated to wiping out teleporters like Christensen. He also meets another Jumper (Jamie Bell) who's been fighting the Paladins since he was a kid. Rachel Bilson plays Christensen's girlfriend, who learns the truth about his teleporting abilities, and becomes a hostage in the Jumper-Paladin battle. Liman says "there is no villain" in Jumper, because everyone is right in his/her own way. Here's a new still from the movie:

June's Incredible Hulk sticks much closer to the original comic than the 2003 Ang Lee version. According to the movie's official site and other sources, Bruce Banner (Edward Norton) works at a bottling plant in Brazil while he searches for the cure to the gamma radiation that turned him into the Hulk. But then General "Thunderbolt" Ross (William Hurt) tracks him down and a battle ensues. Banner runs back up to New York and meets up with his wife, Ross' daughter Betty (Liv Tyler, and here's a pic). Also in NYC, Banner meets his super-psychiatrist, Doc Samson. The Hulk's origin is "spooled out" throughout the movie, as the characters try to learn more about what caused him to exist. And there are plenty of big splosions (see video.) Trying to find a way to beat the Hulk, General Ross doses a soldier/KGB spy named Emily Blonsky (Tim Roth) with a serum that turns him into another monster, even stronger than the Hulk. Blonsky is stuck as a monster and wants revenge on General Ross. Banner finally does find a cure for being the Hulk, but has to turn back into the Hulk anyway, to stop the Abomination's rampage. TV's Hulk, Lou Ferrigno, will have a cameo. Here's a new peek at the Norton Hulk:

U.S. audiences will see a much shorter version of August's Babylon A.D. than Europeans. In the near future, society has broken down and competing cults and militias hold sway. Refugees are "doing anything" to escape the poverty and death of Europe and Asia. A veteran-turned-mercenary named Toorop (Vin Diesel) is hired to bring a young woman named Marie (Melanie Thierry) from Russia to China, accompanied by a nun (Michelle Yeoh). But then another organization offers him even more money for the girl, and Toorop realizes there's more to Marie than meets the eye. It turns out the girl is carrying a virus that will allow humans to alter their own DNA and "create new levels of consciousness." (She's also schizophrenic.) So all sorts of criminals and fanatics want to get their hands on the girl, including a sect that wants to use the virus to create its new messiah. Diesel has to use all his mercenary skills to get the "package" through militarized zones, fight clubs and gang wars. Taking user-generated content to new heights, director Matthieu Kassovitz (Gothika) launched a MySpace contest for futuristic advertisements to appear in the background of the film. According to news reports, Diesel's egomania and problems with location filming delayed the movie and drove it way over budget. Here's a teaser trailer: