I woke up and I started to count my blessings, as we all do on our birthday, we count our blessing and then we think ‘How can I grow as a person, and how can I improve?’ And then I immediately went to, ‘I haven’t made Hannibal yet.’"

Normal actors announce new projects via press release. Vin Diesel is not a normal actor. Vin Diesel uses helicopters, and social media. Yes, almost everything about Diesel is larger than life, including the way that he shares progress on a dream project likeVin Diesel has been talking up for years . But because everyone wants a piece of Diesel, the project routinely gets pushed onto his backburner. He has been busy withmovies. He brought Riddick back to life. And he voiced a tree in the highest-grossing domestic movie of 2014. Butmight be coming. Vin Diesel posted the above video on his Facebook page , but made it tough to embed. Thankfully, his longtimecohort Tyrese Gibson placed the video on his own YouTube page , with the caption, "Vin Diesel Finds a Way." I can’t blame him. This one is so original, it needs to be seen.The clip is wordless, but it oozes with attitude. It shows Vin Diesel taking off from a location that some of his Facebook fans have speculated is Dubai. Diesel includes a similar quote on his page, stating: "We will find a way, or we will make one." – General Barca. It’s a reference to Hamilcar Barca, Punic Carthaginian military leader and father to the man Diesel wants to play on screen some day: Hannibal.To that end, Diesel seems to have shared a title treatment to his Hannibal movie. MTV reported a few months back that Vin Diesel’swas in pre-production, and we was dedicating the film to his fallen "brother," Paul Walker. He has said that he wants it to be a trilogy. In fact, he recently revealed how, on his latest birthday, the fact that hecompletedyet haunts him.Is Vin Diesel just beating thedrum louder, from inside of a helicopter? Is that a real title treatment, and the sign that this historical war drama might finally be getting closer to production? We’ll continue to monitor Vin Diesel’s progress… and his social media pages.