Jet Li and Vin Diesel? Count us in!
A decade and a box office flop later, the xXx series has been resurrected from Revolution Studios. Vin Diesel will officially return to the series as Xander Cage, alongside Samuel L. Jackson as NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons. After a nearly $300 million box office debut in 2002 starring the two, XXX: State of the Union did a fraction of the success in 2005 – which starred legendary rapper Ice Cube.
Luckily, the original cast is returning for the newly announced project, xXx 3: The Return of Xander Cage. Jet Li has been cast to star opposite of Diesel, but details for the project are being kept secret. With Diesel building his movie career through the Fast and the Furious series over the years, the action spy franchise returning shouldn’t be a surprise to the masses.
Shooting is set to begin this February in Toronto and the Dominican Republic, and the project will likely be distributed by Paramount Pictures again. xXx 3 will likely hit theaters during the first half of 2017, but look for more details to surface throughout this year regarding the plot and actors.