10 Actors Who Took Movie Roles For Weird Reasons

10. Vin Diesel Wanted The Rights To Riddick - The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift

There are times when actors develop connections to characters that go above and beyond what you would typically consider to be the usual. Ryan Reynolds gave his everything into lobbying to play Wade Wilson, while Jodie Foster refused to return for Hannibal in 2000 out of respect for Clarice Starling.

Then there is Vin Diesel, who you might assume was connected to Dom Toretto as a character more than anybody else he has played before, though it may be that Riddick is at the top of that particular list.

After the success of the Fast and the Furious, Vin Diesel didn't appear in the sequel, though he returned to show his face in the third chapter of the franchise, Tokyo Drift, if only for the sake of Riddick. 

The Chronicles of Riddick didn't exactly set the box office on fire when it released, and so the franchise's future was up in the air when Diesel leveraged a deal that saw him return as Dom Toretto in 2006. In exchange, the rights to Riddick went to his production company, One Race. Not only did this bring the actor back to the Fast character that he would go on to play through to the present and beyond, but it allowed the production of Riddick in 2013, and ultimately the upcoming sequel, Riddick: Furya. Not a bad move at all.