Action film director Rob Cohen has been out promoting his work producing "XXX: State of the Union" (he directed the first film as well) and About.Com got some scoops on what's next for the spy franchise.
Cohen's original idea for the franchise which they hope to continue, "was a truly punk-ass series of films about a group of different characters who could be a woman with attitude. One thing could be an Eminem or a Trent Reznor, some guy who has great street cred for just having this very iconoclastic attitude. So then the whole series becomes like the leading character. It becomes full of attitude and totally contemptuous of tradition."
Would he come back to direct if the title character was female? "I would really like to do a woman XXX. That's what I really would like to do. 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 Joe and Todd 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."
Lots more details, including talk about the controversial death of Vin Diesel's character on the recent DVD, can be found here.
Thanks to 'Fred'
