Michael Signs on for Vin Diesel's action flick Redemption

Actor and action superstar Vin Diesel posted something very interesting on his official Facebook page yesterday and accompanied the post with this very strange photo of himself and some random tiger in a forest, both with glowing turquoise green eyes. Ok??? Anyway. In the post, which mostly talks about how his management is shocked that he runs his own Facebook page and the announcement that he will be debuting the teaser trailer for the fifth Fast and Furious film (titled 'The Fast and the Furious: Fifth Gear', opening April 27, 2011) on his Facebook page this coming Tuesday Dec. 14, he also mentions at the end that he is also producing and starring in a revenge thriller called 'Redemption' which will be directed by Dominic Sena (Invincible, Whiteout) and executive produced by Michael Bay (Transformers films, Armageddon, Bad Boys films). He mentioned that they are casting right now and plan to start shooting next summer for a summer 2012 release.

Where Michael gets mentioned is when Vin says: "We got a sick cast for you. We got some sexy ladies like Carla Gugino, Moon Bloodgood, and Abbie Cornish on board. We got Billy Bob Thornton playing a dirty cop whose after me. And we also got an Australian assassin for hire on my tail who I just learned will be played by none other than the best young actor working today, Mr. Michael Reese Meyers. I met the young man for a test read the other day at my office in L.A. and I gotta tell you, the guy is somethin'. He can do ANY accent, with no practice. We were looking at alot of really good Australian actors but Michael called us interested in the part after reading the script and after one meeting, we knew the part was his. No one else's. You guys aren't ready for this film. It's like a 70's throwback with some real good heart and tons of awesome twists. We are fine tuning the script right now and I promise it will be one of the best films I've ever done. Very deep, very spiritual, and very bad ass. Game on!"

Sounds kinda cool. The character doesn't seem like the deep and complex types of roles Michael normally goes for but we don't know much about him yet and Michael must've seen something in him to be interested in the part so I guess we will have to wait and see. Can't hurt to have two of the hottest men in Hollywood (Vin and Michael) in the same film, right?