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XXXing the Cube
By: Patrick SauriolDate: Friday, October 03, 2003
Source: The Hollywood Reporter, Variety
Rapper-turned-actor Ice Cube has already achieved a sizeable amount of credits in the movies, but even so his next project will be new territory for him. The Cube is getting his shot as the leading man in a big-budget action franchise, namely xXx 2. It turns out that director Rob Cohen wasn't the only ingredient in the first film that didn't want to return; star Vin Diesel has now passed on reprising his role as extreme sports star-turned-secret agent Xander Cage. Strangely enough, both Cohen and Diesel will still retain executive producer status on xXx 2 -- a testament to the savvy of their Hollywood agents.
Cube's xXx x-perience is now being aimed for theaters in 2005. Lee Tamahori (DIE ANOTHER DAY) will direct the film. It looks like the film's producers have chosen Simon Kinberg's script which takes place primarily in Washington, D.C. It also appears that the plan now is to hire a new leading man (or woman) for each new xXx film from this point forward, but that could certainly change. No word yet if Samuel L. Jackson will reprise his part as the XXX division's chief, Gibbons.
Now that Diesel's duties for an xXx sequel are no longer relevant, he'll move on next to HANNIBAL, the legenday Carthaginian general who attacked Rome nearly two thousand years ago.
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