The same clip is available, but from the band's perspective (with only brief scenes from the film) in their video compilation Lichtspielhaus. The first few minutes of the film take place at a concert of German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein in Prague, performing the song "Feuer Frei". The accident occurred while filming the second take of the stunt; O'Connor's first attempt was completed without incident and can be seen in the completed film, which was dedicated to him. The Corvette jump was filmed at the Foresthill Bridge in Auburn State Recreation Area, Auburn, California. In August 2001, Sony put up a large billboard advertising the film in Hollywood, before a script had been written. In July 2001, it was announced that Vin Diesel would receive in the neighborhood of $10 million to star in the film, with an initial release date of July 26, 2002.
In September 2018, it was announced that a fourth film is in development. XXX (stylized as xXx and pronounced Triple X) is an American action spy film series created by Rich Wilkes.
Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly called it "that rare B movie that's rooted in gut-level stirrings of power and retaliation". David Hiltbrand of the Philadelphia Inquirer said "the plot swings between pathetically implausible and aggressively stupid".Some critics liked the film. The second film in the series was panned by critics, Boo Allen of the Denton Record Chronicle called it "a chubby, surly, incomprehensible action hero".Brian Orndorf of FilmJerk.com compared watching the film to running "headfirst at top speed into a brick wall".
- D. J. Caruso was believed to return as director, while Vin Diesel would reprise his role as Xander Cage.
- Cage and Yelena take his heavily modified car, to catch up to Ahab.
- Cage meets with Gibbons in an opera house who demands that he return to America now that his cover is blown, and that special forces are planning to siege the castle to recover the weapon.
- The film was released on January 20, 2017, and sees the return of Diesel as Xander Cage, who comes out of self-imposed exile, thought to be long dead, and is set on a collision course with a deadly alpha warrior and his team in a race to recover a sinister and seemingly unstoppable weapon known as Pandora’s Box.
- The Czech military prepares to destroy Ahab with airstrikes, though this will release some of the biochemical agent.
- In 2024, an article by Deadline has stated that the film has been stalled due to The H Collective’s financial problems and litigation with the xXx franchise film rights.
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- Japanese rock star and musician Yoshiki was set to serve as the film’s composer.
- The next morning, Gibbons calls Cage about changes to the list of cars, but is impressed when Cage gives them loads of information on Anarchy 99, thanks to Kolya eagerly providing to please his idol.
- In August 2001, Sony put up a large billboard advertising the film in Hollywood, before a script had been written.
- XXX Rob Cohen Rich Wilkes Neal H. Moritz Revolution StudiosOriginal Film Columbia Pictures August 9, 2002xXx is the first movie in the xXx franchise.
- Cage asks Yorgi about purchasing high end sports cars, and Yorgi’s girlfriend and lieutenant Yelena, gives Cage an account number.
- In September 2018, it was announced that a fourth film is in development.
- Going against orders leaving, Cage gives his car to Shavers and tells him to load it up with as much weaponry as he can.
Roger Ebert called it "as good as a James Bond movie". He remarks "Poor Xander, you never had very much between the ears." His men pick him up and drive off in their car. After confronting a homeless man, Xander returns to the building.
Cage relays Yorgi's plans to the NSA in return for Yelena's asylum. Yelena saves Cage, revealing herself to be an abandoned undercover Russian Federal Security Service agent. Overhearing his plan to launch "Silent Night" from the water-borne drone Ahab; he first tests the weapon on the scientists who developed it, to Cage and Yelena's horror. Cage sneaks into Yorgi's castle and follows him into a secret underground lab. Cage, while searching for the biochemical weapon, catches Yelena investigating Yorgi's secret safe. As Cage attends the car deal he made with Yorgi, Sova attempts to intercede.
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Cage is sent to Prague to meet with the NSA support team, which includes Czech agent Milan Sova. Gibbons's team abducts Cage, and puts him through two field tests, stopping a staged diner robbery, and escaping from a Colombian cartel's plantation in the midst of an army raid. A biochemical weapon, "Silent Night," presumed missing since the fall of the Soviet Union, is obtained by Anarchy 99, a Russian terrorist group with formal military training. XXX Rob Cohen Rich Wilkes Neal H. Moritz Revolution StudiosOriginal Film Columbia Pictures August 9, 2002xXx is the first movie in the xXx franchise. Login to use TMDB's new rating system.
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The sequence opens with Xander driving in a car with Jordan King. In the short film, Xander is played by Vin Diesel's stunt double Khristian Lupo (who never shows his face or speaks) while reusing some archival lines spoken by Diesel. In 2024, an article by Deadline has stated that the film has been stalled due to The H Collective's financial problems and litigation with the xXx franchise film rights. In September 2023, it was reiterated that a fourth film was still in development, though production would not be able to start until Diesel completed his work on the upcoming eleventh Fast & Furious film. Japanese rock star and musician Yoshiki was set to serve as the film's composer. D. J. Caruso was believed to return as director, while Vin Diesel would reprise his role as Xander Cage.
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Thus earning him Yorgi's trust and in return, Yorgi makes Cage a member of Anarchy 99; in reality, Cage was able to use fake blood splatter darts to fake Sova's death. Later, Cage attends the car deal he made earlier with Yorgi in a warehouse which Sova attempts to intercede. Impressed by his work, Gibbons sends tech-specialist Agent Toby Shavers, who provides Cage with a special revolver, binoculars that can see through walls and explosives winaura disguised as bandages. The next morning, Gibbons calls Cage about changes to the list of cars, but is impressed when Cage gives them loads of information on Anarchy 99, thanks to Kolya eagerly providing to please his idol. Cage hands him the list and Yorgi immediately identifies that the tenth car on the list, a 1967 Pontiac GTO would be hard to find in Europe. Cage tells Yorgi that he is in the club to make a deal with Yorgi about high-end sports cars.
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Cage and Yelena take his heavily modified car, to catch up to Ahab. The Czech military prepares to destroy Ahab with airstrikes, though this will release some of the biochemical agent. Against orders, Shavers heavily arms Cage's car, who then parachutes from a plane on a snowboard near Anarchy 99's communication tower.
Cage and Yelena take his car, now heavily modified by Agent Shavers, to race alongside the river to catch up to Ahab. Cage relays Yorgi's plans to the NSA on the condition that the US Government give Yelena asylum in the country, who prepare a coordinated attack on the castle. She explains that she is an FSB agent that started to get close to Yorgi two years before, but her handlers abandoned her. Cage, while searching for the biochemical weapon, catches Yelena attempting to investigate Yorgi's secret safe. Yorgi brings Cage back to a castle after a dance party at one of his nightclubs that serves as Anarchy 99's headquarters.