{"id":1117,"date":"2008-09-14T23:52:25","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2018-12-08T23:56:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T04:56:21","slug":"columbia-looking-at-reviving-diesels-xxx-franchise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/14\/columbia-looking-at-reviving-diesels-xxx-franchise\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Looking At Reviving XXX Franchise With Vin Diesel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of 2002&#8217;s <strong>XXX<\/strong>, the spy thriller that starred Vin Diesel and was directed by Rob Cohen. For a film that announced it was going to be a different type of spy film by symbolically killing a James Bond stand-in in its opening minutes, it almost immediately fell back upon numerous old spy film tropes. Diesel starred as an extreme sports champion who gets recruited by the government for a dangerous, top secret mission. Still, audiences liked it enough for a sequel, <strong>XXX: State Of The Union<\/strong>,\u00a0to be greenlit, though both Diesel and Cohen passed on participating. Ice Cube stepped in in front of the cameras and Lee Tamahori stepped in behind the cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia Pictures is now in negotiations with Joe Roth, who produced the two previous <strong>XXX<\/strong> films, for a third installment, one that would hopefully bring back both Diesel and Cohen. The film is tentatively titled <strong>XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage<\/strong>, though that could change when once they get around to hiring someone to write a script.<\/p>\n<p>I find this an interesting move on Columbia&#8217;s part, one that seems very reliant on audiences wanting to return to this franchise. Both Cohen and Diesel had it rough this past summer. Diesel&#8217;s futuristic <strong>Babylon AD<\/strong> was dumped by its studio, Twentieth Century Fox, amidst bad reviews from journalists and even the film&#8217;s director, while Cohen&#8217;s <strong>The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor<\/strong> &#8211; ironically, also a third installment of a franchise &#8211; also underpreformed with critics and at the box office. Columbia must be really hungry for a tentpole picture to be going back to this well.<\/p>\n<p>Via <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20121220121414\/http:\/\/www.variety.com:80\/article\/VR1117992178\/?refCatId=1236\" target=\"_blank\">Variety<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">I wasn&#8217;t a big fan of 2002&#8217;s XXX, the spy thriller that starred Vin Diesel and was directed by Rob Cohen. 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