Vin Diesel’s “Babylon AD” hasn’t been getting a whole lot of publicity in the U.S., even though the film is scheduled to be released into theaters on August 29, 2008. There have been some TV commercials, but you get the feeling the film’s U.S. distributors doesn’t have all that much confidence that it can do the kind of business a big ad push would have helped it to achieve. But don’t let that stop you; the film looks like a blast, and we’ve just gotten a new batch of stills from the movie.

Veteran-turned-mercenary Thoorop takes the high-risk job of escorting a woman from Russia to China. Little does he know that she is host to an organism that a cult wants to harvest in order to produce a genetically modified Messiah.

Starring Vin Diesel, Michelle Yeoh, Mélanie Thierry, Gérard Depardieu, Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson, Mark Strong, Jérôme Le Banner, Chris Astoyan, Radek Bruna, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.

Head over to Babylon August 29.

see the rest of the new “Babylon AD” images at our movie gallery