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XXX
(Triple X)
XXX
Expected Release Date U.S. :
August 2nd 2002 (Subject
to change) Expected Release Date U.K. :
October 2002 (subject to change) Expected Rental Release Date :
XXX
Cast : Vin Diesel, Samuel
L. Jackson, Asia Argento, Eve, Marton Csokas
Director : Rob Cohen
XXX Written By : Rich
Wilkes
Producers : Neil Moritz
Other Known Crew Members :
XXX
Based On : Original story.
Nothing at all to do with the Dark Horse comic book series.
Premise/Synopsis : "A
charismatic extreme sports competitor, Triple X (Diesel),
is "a James Bond-like hero with the personality of a
rock star/chick magnet like Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst",
is recruited by a government agent (Jackson) to infiltrate
a Russian crime ring led by a mysterious figure called Yorgi,
which soon sends him through a series of adventures across
Europe and elsewhere..."
(from the IMDB)
Genre : Action/Thriller
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XXX
Updated :
13th May 2002: xXx Update:
The US release date for xXx has been
put back. Don't worry its only been put back a week from August
2nd to August 9th. The reason is probably to stop it clashing
with the release of the Mel Gibson supernatural thriller Signs.
8th May 2002: xXx Update: The Hollywood Reporter claim that a sequel to the August
release xXx has been greelit by Columbia Pictures. It's reported
that the film's star Vin Diesel signed a £6.8 million
($10 million) sequel deal when he agreed to appear in the
original. It has been pensiled in for a 2004 release date.
7th
May 2002: xXx Updated:
Joblo
posted a new image from the Vin Diesel actioner due in
cinemas this August (US). xXx sees Diesel star as Xander
Cage, a James Bond like super hero for the 21st century.
Click on the pic on the right for a larger version over
at Joblo.
4th May 2002: xXx Updated:
The second teaser for xXx is now online
in Quicktime. See more of Vin Diesel as Xander Cage hamming
it up as well as Sam Jackson and more of those glorious set
piece stunts. Go
on then.
1/5/02
Joblo
were the first to score this pic of Asia Argento and Vin
Diesel in Rob Cohen's xXx due to hit US theaters this
August.
For all you UK fans of Diesel, I have recieved word that
xXx will be released over here in October. More details
when I get them.
4/4/02
News was posted on Dark Horizons today
that a stuntman has been killed whilst filming a scene on
the river Vltava in Prague. "A stuntman with a parachute
was being dragged behind the motorboat, he didn't let go in
time and smashed into Palackeho Bridge at full speed".
Apparently the accident was witnessed by hundreds of onlookers,
but the crew arn't allowed to comment at present. A pic is
up of the scene over at iDNES
before the tragic accident happened.
21/3/02
Czech website Filmweb
have posted a host of stills from the Prague set of xXx. The
pics feature a lot of the crew including director Rob Cohen
and star Vin Diesel. The scene looks like its set down by
the Vltava river that runs through the center of the city.
I know exactly where they're shooting this as I walked down
the same stretch of river back in January. This section is
located a little down river from the Charles Bridge, where
we reported on the 19th March that they were filming there
also (see below). Ooh,
take a look at that car......
19/3/02
A scooper has sent us in some information
from the Prague set of Triple X (xXx).
"Have just returned from a week in Prague. One major,
multi-camera scene was been shot on the famous Charles Bridge,
involving an old American car which had been kitted out with
a multitude of extra dials on the dash. I managed to take
some photographs and then was moved on by security! Amazing
to see!" (thanks to David).
Come on David let us see those pics! Send them to me here!
4/3/02
Apple have just posted the second trailer
for Rob Cohen's high-octane action flick xXx. The trailer
replaces the first one that we saw online a couple of weeks
back, and in the new one includes a lot more footage from
the film and a little look at some of the great stunts that
we can expect to see when it hits theaters in August of this
year. Click on the links below to check it out.
8/2/02 13th
Street have been looking at Rich Wilkes' screenplay for
XXX and posted a review over at their site.
"Xander Cage (Diesel) is an extreme-sports athlete
covered with tattoos and piercings, willing to do just about
the most dangerous and twisted kind of stunt imaginable. The
thing is, X (as he is called by close friends) isn't into
selling out and making big bucks by branding his name on video
games or gear; he pushes the edge just to prove he can pull
off these crazy tricks.
Enter
Gibbons (Samuel L. Jackson), a representative of the National
Security Agency, who needs a new kind of undercover spy to
infiltrate a savvier generation of criminal organization.
There's a bunch of European bohemian mercs that call themselves
Anarchy 99 working out of Prague, and these guys can zero
in and ID the old-style secret agent man like a bad smell".
(full
report here).
3/2/02
The teaser trailer for XXX is now online. Available in
Quicktime, the teaser that alsso airs during today's Superbowl
in the Us is available to download in the following speeds,
Low
| Med
| High.
The
teaser poster has also become available and is pictured
on the right.
28/1/02
Another
image from XXX has appeared online, this time a promotional
pic released by Sony. Check out the photo on the right
of Vin Diesel with a great tatoo on the back of his neck.
The film is scheduled for release in the US on August
2nd of this year. The filmmakers will have to move fast
as they're still shooting in Prague and will go on for
a few more weeks yet.
Effects house Digital Domain will handle over 100 effects
shots needed for the movie and Corona
reports that
they
Image
(c) Sony
will also work on a number of the extreme sports scenes. Finally
German heavy-rock group Rammstein and English band Orbital will
contribute to the soundtrack.
25/1/02
Two
new bits of information for the Vin Diesel action vehicle
XXX. First, check out the first image on the right here.
Here is our first look at Sam Jackson in the movie. He
stands alongside director Rob Cohen and Diesel himself.
The second image over on the far right is of the Church
of Our Lady Before Tyn, which stands in the famous Old
Town Square
in
Prague.
Now Corona reports
that there will be a set piece stunt performed outside of this
Gothic cathedral. Their report originates from various Prague
newspapers. They also report that one of the sound stages being
used at the nearby Prague Studios has been water-logged for
a scene or scenes involving a submarine.
(information from Corona,
Coming Soon. Left image
(c) Columbia, Church of Our Lady Before Tyn image (c) The Z
Review).
8/1/02
XXX or Triple X, reunites Vin Diesel with his Fast & The
Furious director, Rob Cohen and producer Neil Moritz.
This film also boasts the talents of one Samuel L. Jackson and
Asia Argento along with rap star Eve. It's thought that Eve,
the girl that brought us last year's hit Who's That Girl, will
also contribute to the films soundtrack.
Production began on XXX back on November 26th 2001 in LA and
moved on yesterday (7th January) to Prague. The budget is set
at $50 million and the shoot will last around ten weeks.
More
news on XXX as we get it!
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