Guys and Dolls deny Diesel role

The producers of a re-make of the musical film Guys and Dolls insist they have not cast actor Vin Diesel in the project.

“We’d better clear this up,” the Oscar-winning Chicago producer Craig Zadon told the syndicated columnist Marilyn Beck.

“Vin Diesel gave interviews saying that he and Nicole Kidman were doing Guys and Dolls. We met him socially, but that’s all. We’re in the process of closing a deal for the rights and we can’t make a commitment to any actor yet.”

Zadon and his partner, Neil Meron, say they have not yet decided who will take on the roles of New York gamblers Nathan Detroit and Skye Masterson, played by Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando in the 1955 film based on the enduringly popular Broadway show.