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Tony Jaa And Jet Li Up To Join Vin Diesel And Co. For xXx: THE RETURN OF XANDER CAGE

If there was any doubt on your end that the likes of action stars Tony Jaa and Jet Li would appear together in a movie with franchise muscle, actor Vin Diesel, you wouldn’t have been completely wrong. Li first broke ground from Hong Kong cinema with Lethal Weapon 4 in 1998 five years before Jaa would reach his own milestones with Ong Bak in 2003 and his Hollywood debut opposite Diesel in Furious Seven last Spring, and so seventeen years is a considerable amount of time to wait for news like this. As it stands though, there’s not much to gain from expecting Li to do any screenfighting as we’ve last heard a few years back about his hyperthyroidism which ultimately affects his heart. That said, it still bares worth keeping in mind whatever hopes there are that maybe Li is fit to fight on screen once more depending on […]

Casting Updates: Taken 3, The Whole Truth, Marvel & xXx 3!

Lee B. Golden III

Let’s get to it… Fresh off the wire as this week’s festivities move forward for the European Film Festival in Berlin, Deadline confirmed that director Olivier Megaton will return to the director’s seat once again for the Liam Neeson actioner, Taken 3. Neeson is expected to reprise his role with much of the main cast, namely actress Maggie Grace who plays his daughter, in addition to the film’s newly annouced cast member, Forest Whitaker. The film marks the third installation of EuropaCorp’s surprise franchise success that began with Neeson starring as former CIA operative Bryan Mills trekking through France’s seedy underworld of Albanian sex traffickers to hunt down his daughter’s kidnappers in the Pierre Morel-directed 2008/09 film, while the 2012 sequel pit our hero against their blood thirsty family members hungry for vengeance as they stalk Mills and his family through Istanbul. As for the third offering, no plot details […]