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Director Rob Cohen Is Back Directing xXx 3D!

Niall Browne — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:25:53 +0000

Rob Cohen must really like flip-flops because he seems to flip and flop in and out of love with the xXx action franchise. He directed the first installment way back in 2002, only to drop out of the sequel when Vin Diesel also bailed. Then he signed back on to direct xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (when Diesel had a change of heart and decided to return to the franchise), only to leave again when the film stalled in production.

Guess what? Cohen is back directing the film – which has now moved from the Sony lot to Paramount Pictures.

Oh – and it’s also going to be in 3D!

The behind the scenes story of the xXx franchise is quite a complicated one.

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Rumor Patrol: Vin Diesel Still Doing ‘xXx 3′

Scott Miller — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:00:05 +0000

There was a rumor floated recently by CineFools that Vin Diesel had dropped out of xXx: The Return of Xander Cage. If you heard that rumor and freaked out, you can now turn red ’cause Diesel’s publicist emailed MTV and said it was untrue. This is exactly what was said in that email:

“I made a few calls on this and I can tell you that it is completely not true.“

The action-packed xXx franchise began with Diesel in 2002, when he played the extreme sports athlete-turned government operative, Xander Cage. xXx: State of the Union (2005) ripped Cage away from us and replaced him with Ice Cube’s Darius Stone. The third installment in the franchise is to be directed by Ericson Core, who brought us Invincible and was the cinematographer on Daredevil.

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xXx 3 Gets a New Director

Ross Miller — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:02:12 +0000

News has surfaced, by way of The Hollywood Reporter, stating that a new director has been found for xXx: The Return of Xander Cage, the third installment in Columbia Pictures’ action series. Last year both star Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen (director of the first installment) agreed to join forces for a third film, but in June this year Cohen bailed to direct Medieval. The new director is Ericson Core (Invincible), who’s worked with Diesel before as the Cinematographer on The Fast and the Furious.

Diesel starred in the original xXx back in 2002, but both he and director Cohen skipped the second film, xXx: State of the Union, starring Ice Cube and directed by Lee Tamahori. Diesel was somewhat of a hot name at the time of xXx, but for some reason he thought it best ...

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xXx: The Return Of Xander Cage

Niall Browne — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:09:25 +0000

Poor Vin Diesel, the man just can’t get a break. He hit the big time about a decade ago with Pitch Black. He followed that movie up with The Fast and the Furious and xXx, however he refused to star in follow-ups to these. Instead opting for The Chronicles of Riddick, a big budget sequel to Pitch Black, a film that failed to meet expectations (as well as its budget at the box office).

Following the failure of Babylon A.D. and the loss of “street cred” due to The Pacifier, Diesel is returning to the “furious” franchise next summer with Fast and Furious (the fourth film in the series), while news has come in today that the bald star and original xXx director Rob Cohen are mulling a return to the “modern Bond” franchise they started in ...

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