If Vin Diesel is one thing, he is a man of his word. The superstar used his Hollywood clout from the Fast & Furious franchise to push through passion projects like Riddick and The Last Witch Hunter, and now according to his Instagram, it looks like he’s finally bringing us the long-promised XXX 3.
Over a year ago, Diesel teased Katy Perry as a potential new “X girl” for him to co-star with, although the project has had numerous ups and downs from losing director Rob Cohen to potentially seeing Samuel L. Jackson’s NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons returning to the fold. Terminator Salvation scribes Michael Ferris and John Brancato provided the most recent draft of the script, with Furious series mastermind Neal H. Moritz on deck to produce. No director is publicly attached yet, despite supposed pending principal photography three months from now in December.
Diesel starred as leading man Xander Cage in 2002’s XXX. Although a sequel, XXX: State of the Union, hit theaters in 2005 and starred Ice Cube, playing another XXX agent, Darius Stone, it failed to recapture the box office clout of the original. Tentatively titled XXX: The Return of Xander Cage, the third big screen actioner has been planned for years, but now it looks like it may finally be set to become a reality
