Rob Cohen Speaks on XXX: The Return of Xander Cage

Director Rob Cohen is excited to be back behind the camera for the third installment of the XXX franchise.

He recently talked with IGN about XXX: The Return of Xander Cage with IGN:

IGN: What's next? 



Cohen: I had dinner with Vin Diesel and I started thinking that Xander Cage was a great character. Yes, I got mad at Vin and Vin got mad and me, and I didn't do the sequel, and they went off in a stupid direction. But the character is still alive. So I went to Revolution and to Joe Roth and to Sony and now we're writing a script with the guys who wrote Terminator 3 & 4. So we'll do another Xander Cage XXX. We'll bring it up to speed a bit and bring back the extreme sports guy who's drafted to be a spy.

IGN: So a break from the uber-seriuos spy movies we've been getting with Bourne and Bond?

Cohen: Really, come on, a James Bond movie without gadgets, sex or humor? I hadn't seen that movie when we started putting this together, but we have an opportunity to give people what they really want. We can keep to a certain expectation of what we love about these international spy movies – the fantasy. It's slotted for release July 2010 from Sony.