xXx: The Return of Xander Cage Gets a New Director
We heard last year that Vin Diesel had signed on to reprise his role as secret agent/extreme sports enthusiast Xander Cage in a new xXx flick, and that Rob Cohen (The Fast and the Furious, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor) would be returning to direct as well. Both of them skipped the original xXx sequel, xXx: State of the Union, which starred Ice Cube as the slightly less athletic spy Darius Stone. However, a couple of months ago Rob Cohen dropped out of the project in order to take on Medieval, a movie he describes as “The Magnificent Seven in the Middle Ages”. Now a new director has been named as his replacement.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Ericson Core will direct xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, which Columbia is hoping to shoot early next year. Core directed the Mark Wahlberg football drama Invincible, and also an upcoming film called The Prodigy starring Richard Gere. He has a background as a cinematographer, having worked as DP on such movies as Payback, Daredevil, and The Fast and the Furious (where he previously worked with Vin Diesel). That’s not much to go on, but in general I don’t think losing Rob Cohen as director is the worst thing in the world. Do you think this be a solid return to form for Vin Diesel, or is it just going to be another half-assed sequel?
Comments (9)
I just hope they make an actual reason for Cage’s return from the dead.
Posted by Matt Keith on August 26th, 2009this is vin diesel realizing that his career isnt too good for crappy sequals of his crappy original movies.
Posted by Ledgewood on August 26th, 2009I hope they don’t forsake the multi-layered character development of the original. That’d be a shame.
Posted by WrongMovieMike on August 26th, 2009For a movie series named “xXx” – I would think they would show more boob.
Posted by BigHungry on August 26th, 2009BigHungry,
Posted by WrongMovieMike on August 26th, 2009They showed a big boob. His name is Vin.
@WrongMovieMike
You are right with a boob that big they should of added an X or called it DoubleD.
Posted by BigHungry on August 26th, 2009Yeah, call it DoubleDiesel: Twice the crap
Posted by WrongMovieMike on August 26th, 2009Meh, I would much prefer a squeal to Riddick!
Posted by Marc on August 26th, 2009Love Vin Diesel’s career trajectory. He was too ‘big’ to appear in 2 Fast 2 Furious, did the cameo in 3rd one, then crawled back for #4.
Here, he was too good to do XXX 2, now he’s back for the 3rd installment. Shame, he’s such a shameless geek and seems like a nice guy.
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