Variety [paid registration required], via Coming Soon, reports that Vin Diesel’s One Race Films production company is collaborating with Blur Studio on a CGI feature based on the independent animation house’s short film Rockfish. In addition to producing with Once Race partner George Zakk and Blur creative director Tim Miller, Diesel will provide the voice of one of the leading characters in the sci-fi action flick. Miller, who wrote and directed the short, will direct the feature as well. Now looking for independent financing for the production, One Race hopes to make the picture for less than $30 million. The project is described as focusing on “a man on an alien planet trying to catch a giant ‘rock fish’ that lives underground and disrupts the planet’s miners.”
Diesel smells what the Rockfish is cooking in development