Los Angeles, CA – May 19, 2011 . MGM announced today that Vin Diesel will star in and also produce through his One Race Films, the action-comedy The Machine, based on an original script by Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant (Night At The Museum, Night At The Museum: Battle For The Smithsonian, The Pacifier), who are also producing. Production is scheduled to start in the fall.

Vin Diesel stars as a human-like machine created in secrecy by the Pentagon as the world’s first true ultimate weapon. Twenty years after the project was buried and decommissioned for reasons unknown, The Machine is discovered by a kid who befriends him. When the government learns it has been reactivated, the Machine must protect the family harboring him.

MGM’s Jonathan Glickman, President of the Motion Picture Group, says “We could not be happier to be partnering with Vin again, especially on a film with...