Rob Cohen Goes 'Medieval' on 'xXx' Threequel

Empire reports that Rob Cohen, the director of the first xXx movie and the completely asinine Stealth, has bowed out of the third chapter in the xXx series to make Medieval instead. Before you automatically assume it's because xXx: The Return of Xander Cage is garbage (which was what I thought when I read it), you should know that Cohen studied anthropology from Harvard...which might explain why he's not a great filmmaker, I guess. Be that as it may, when the opportunity came to make a movie that deals with European history, Cohen jumped at the chance. Just thank whatever you pray to that he beat Stephen Sommers to it. This doesn't mean that Cohen can't direct his old friend Vin Diesel in xXx, but it's believed that project is being hastened into production, as well, which makes going behind the camera on both movies nearly impossible. What's so good about Medieval that Cohen couldn't pass it up? Well, in his words, it's The Magnificent Seven meets the Middle Ages. So...this is The Seven Samurai, then? Only directed by the guy who made The Skulls and Dragonheart instead of Akira Kurosawa.

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[Charcole]

He only directed the first XXX. Some other idiot did the the second one.

Does anyone get excited about this guy directing movies? In my opinion, he has only directed one good movie, Dragon the Bruce Lee Story. The rest have been garbage. I'd rather see a Stephen Sommers movie than this guy.

[Get The Big Picture]

Thanks for the correction; somehow, I managed to give him more bona fides in all of this.