Sep 15 2008Vin Diesel Stripping Ice Cube of 'xXx' Mantle
Vin Diesel, you recidivist, you. Since returning to the Fast/Furious series, the smooth-headed actor has now agreed to say "Hey, it's me again" to another of his former masterpieces, Three X's: The Movie! From Variety:
Columbia Pictures hasn’t tired of "XXX," particularly if it’s a Diesel-powered vehicle. (Get it?)The studio is in discussions with producer Joe Roth for a new version of "XXX," one that would bring back Vin Diesel as star and Rob Cohen as director.
The duo teamed on the 2002 original, which starred Diesel as Xander Cage, an extreme sports enthusiast who gets drafted by the government for a dangerous mission.
The third incarnation has a title, "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage," but no script.
Oh, to be a hypothetical fan of Vin Diesel who was put into cryogenic hibernation in 2002 and just now awoken. If I were to ever wish that damnable fate on myself, it would be today.
Reader Comments
1. Count Orlock - September 15, 2008 1:23 PM
wow it's good to be awake...now what has he done since then?
Wait..what the fuck is The Pacifier?
2. ! - September 15, 2008 1:39 PM
ok, what little I care (which is very little I assure you) I'm glad he'll be back... mainly because as bad an actor as he is, he's effin' DeNiro next the Ice Cube's no talent ass. XXX 2 was one of the worst movie I've ever seen. Sure the first one was dumb but at least it was entertaining the sequel was just absolute shit.
3. mtk - September 15, 2008 1:42 PM
Wow, "XXX: The Return of Xander Cage" - I love the ridiculousness of this title. It's as though Diesel and his handlers truly believe that "Xander Cage" is a household name and that the fans can't wait for his return. Hey, if it worked for "The Chronicles of Riddick"... Oh wait, it didn't.
Up next: "Babylon A.D.: Toorop's Revenge."
4. Chris - September 15, 2008 1:55 PM
I live for this shit.
5. Dvq - September 15, 2008 2:02 PM
isnt he supposed to be dead? wtf?
6. Hayate - September 15, 2008 2:11 PM
Dvq you are quite right. I specifically remember in the second movie, when Ice Cube's character ask Samuel L Jackson's character what happened to the last Triple X. The reply was he was killed on a mission or something to that nature. So again I second the WTF?
7. Samuel L Jackass - September 15, 2008 2:35 PM
I LIED to him and I'll lie to the mutha fucker again!!!
8. johnnyabnormal - September 15, 2008 3:02 PM
@5. Dvq
@6. Hayate
This shit happens all the time in movies. They just make up some back story where he faked his own death. Then he comes out of hiding, blah blah blah...
9. Medications - September 15, 2008 3:04 PM
@ 5 & 6
All they have to do is say they just reported him as dead to protect his safety or something. They probably just won't address it at all though
10. hollywood_hillbilly - September 15, 2008 3:28 PM
There could of been a XXX between VD and IC. I hope he returns to his pitch black acting technique of minimal dialogue and maximum flexing and stabbing things, that seems to work much better for him.
11. Elmo - September 15, 2008 3:42 PM
I have no idea about any of this
too confusing!
12. Joe Melnick - September 15, 2008 3:47 PM
I for one hope they really thrash out the backstory on this, and explain to the audience in excruciating detail how it can be that XC was referred to as dead, but now is somehow alive. Internal consistency is the bread and butter of these kinds of ultra-shitty movies.
13. Lunchboxx - September 16, 2008 8:50 AM
@5 @ 6
your all right, from what i can remember, XXX2 takes place i think not long after the first.
and if i remember right, they said that he was killed in bora bora(SP),the vacation spot i assume xander was on at the end of the 1st movie.
14. momboelitist - September 16, 2008 10:18 AM
Killed in "Bora Bora"?
Nope, too easy! Not gonna do it......