I have just seen this bit of exciting news update about the new XXX film "XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage" on ComicBook.com, and I just had to put it up on here for all to see.
According to a post on The Hollywood Reporter's website posted yesterday Nina Dobrev (last seen playing the character Elena Gilbert in "The Vampire Diaries"), Ruby Rose ( from "Orange Is The New Black") and Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone are at various stages of negotiations to join the cast of this new instalment in the XXX film franchise which is already starting to cast as the film is said to be starting production later in January and will shoot in the Philippines and Toronto.
According to The Hollywood Reporter Nina Dobrev will play a sarcastic and witty techie, Deepika Padukone will play a huntress and a former lover of Xander Cage's and Ruby Rose will play a sniper.
Other than this plot details are very sketchy, but all that is known at the moment is also according to The Hollywood Reporter this new "XXX: The Return Of Xander Cage" will focus on Vin Diesel's character Xander Cage but will see him much like the Fast and Furious films surrounded by a core team of sexy badass's and comic relief player's.
But I'm just wondering now I'm writing this that in the last XXX movie "XXX: The Next Level", Scott Speedman's character Agent Kyle Christopher Steele did say that Xander Cage had died and that's why they needed someone who was more aggressive than before...so whatever the story line for this film how are the script writers going to address this and not just use "it was a cover" as this really to me at least doesn't make sense and it would be a really shitty excuse and I think whatever the plot it will just be so annoying as I would probably or other cinema goers would probably just sit watching the film thinking "Why On Earth Say That If It Was A Cover, Why Do That?" and let the whole story for this film down and will probably have cinema goers walking out of the film thinking that they've just wasted their time watching this...but then again if all involved did do this the distraction would have people wanting to go back to the cinema and spending their money again.
Also one thing is for sure Samuel L. Jackson will be returning to this film franchise as the Head Of The National Security Agency reprising his role as Augustus Gibbons.
Also according to The Hollywood Reporter this project is already on the verge of finding a distributor with several sources saying according to The Hollywood Reporter that Paramount will be the home of this film franchise.
Vin Diesel, Vin Diesel's producing partner and sister Samantha Vincent, Joe Roth, Joe Roth's production partner Jeff Kirschenbaum and Neal H. Moritz will produce this new movie, with D.J Caruso directing with F. Scott Frazier, John Brancato and Michael Ferris are on script writing duties.
I've also just seen on Empire Magazine's website that according to a post on the 4th January Jet Li and Tony Jaa are also rumoured to be joining this movie but as yet much like the plot for this movie it's not known yet what their roles are or whether they'll be on the side of the goodies or the badies, but it's also rumoured according to this post on Empire.com that current UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor will also be taking a role.
There is no release date for this yet but Empire.com that it might be somewhere in between Fast and Furious 8 and Riddick 4.
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