In my opinion, the greatest hype man for any movie he's ever starred in was and remains Arnold Schwarzenegger. The guy's superhuman ability to stay on message was such that he essentially parlayed it into a political career.
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Whenever Arnold calls it quits, Vin Diesel is ready to replace him on that throne. Diesel, now appearing everywhere in the runup to Furious 7's release next week, did a big interview with Variety in which he said the film deserves not merely a Best Picture nomination, but that it should win the Oscar.
"Universal is going to have the biggest movie in history with this movie," Diesel said in a lengthy interview with Variety for this week's cover story. "It will probably win best picture at the Oscars, unless the Oscars don't want to be relevant ever."
Diesel took a breath, before offering his prediction for a second time. "This will win best picture," Diesel said. "There is nothing that will ever come close to the power of this thing."
Listen, the guy is an executive producer on the series in addition to being the star who launched it along with the late Paul Walker. So he's never going to not go all in when it comes to advocating for it.
And yeah, I expect Furious 7 to be nothing short of spectacular entertainment. Haters will mock it, but screw them. This franchise has delivered repeatedly, the last few installments especially.
But "biggest movie in history" is a bit ambitious. After all, Avengers: Age of Ultron comes out a month later...
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