XXX was originally created to be a franchise for baldy action star Vin Diesel, but after he dropped out of the series after one lukewarm film, the whole paradigm changed. The series has now become about a line of replaceable secret agents, even chubby ones like Ice Cube. So if the new XXX: State of the Union does well, what might we see for #3?
Rob Cohen, who directed the first, would like to see… a girl?!?!
"I would really like to do a woman XXX," Cohen told a very familiar dude at About.com. "I think we understand the testosterone level of Vin Diesel and Ice Cube. I would really love to get the Michelle Rodriguez type or Michelle Yeoh or someone, a female who really can kick ass and take names. If there was a woman, if [the producers] would go with a woman, I would definitely come back because I think the women today are tougher than the men. They’re braver and they’re smarter and we don’t have as many traditions of what makes a female hero as we do for the male hero."
Of course all of this depends on how the new film does – and I guess on how Cohen’s next film, the moderately goofy looking Stealth – performs. Maybe he’ll just opt to have the plane in Stealth II be a broad.
By the way, Cohen also mentions Trent Reznor as a possible XXX lead. I seriously LOLed at that one. The new album is damn good, though!