Diesel forced to cut costs on Hannibal project

Action man Vin Diesel has been forced to scale down his epic labour of love, Hannibal The Conquerer, after learning his ideas would cost a studio more than $210m (€306m).

The XXX star has been working on the film, about heroic Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca, for years, and admits he's now struggling to rework the project to make it an affordable option for a leading Hollywood studio .