A well known fan of Dungeons & Dragons, Diesel based much of his character in the film on one of his D&D characters. Reportedly, Diesel had quite a bit of input into his character.
When on the eve of his retirement, the 36th Dolan is attacked, Kaulder begins an investigation that leads him to realize the Witch Queen, who he believed that he had killed 800 years ago and who is responsible for his immortal state, isn't as dead as he thought and could be plotting another plan to wipeout humanity. When the film begins, after we've been brought up to date on the rules of this world, we learn that the 36th Dolan, played by a clearly slumming it for the paycheck Michael Caine, is retiring, to be replaced by the 37th played by Elijah Wood. Over the years, Kaulder has had a series of Handlers in the Church known as Dolans. Kaulder acts as the Church's enforcer, bringing to justice those witches who flout the terms of the treaty forged between the witches and the Church. In this world witchcraft exists and is regulated by the Catholic Church. Vin Diesel stars as Kaulder, an 800 year old immortal witch hunter. The result is a generic urban fantasy with little to make it standout. Instead, the filmmakers decided to keep it very middle-of-the-road safe and a family friendly PG-13.
It should either have played up the absurdity of the situation by keeping its tongue slightly in cheek, or it should have gone much, much darker and featured some sex and gore. Vin Diesel and Rose Leslie in The Last Witch Hunter.įor this movie to work, it needed to do one of two things.
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