XXX: State of the Union
Also known as XXX2: The Next Leve, XXX: State of Emergency
XXX: State of the Union (released as xXx2: The Next Level and XXX: State of Emergency outside North America) is a 2005 American action spy film directed by Lee Tamahori and a sequel to the 2002 film XXX. It is the second installment of the XXX film series, and was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures.
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5.1Darius Stone's criminal record and extreme sports obsession make him the perfect candidate to be the newest XXX agent. He must save the U.S. government from a deadly conspiracy led by five-star general and Secretary of Defense George Deckert.
Released: 2005-04-27101 minDir: Lee TamahoriAction, Adventure, Crime, ThrillerBudget: $60.0MBox office: $71.4MPart of: xXx Collection
Cast
- Ice Cube as Darius Stone / xXx
- Samuel L. Jackson as Agent Augustus Gibbons
- Willem Dafoe as Gen. George Octavius Deckert
- Scott Speedman as Agent Kyle Steele
- Peter Strauss as President James Sandford
- Xzibit as Zeke
Themes
- helicopter
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XXX: State of the Union (released as xXx: The Next Level and XXX: State of Emergency outside North America) is a 2005 American action spy film directed by Lee Tamahori and a sequel to the 2002 film XXX. It is the second installment of the XXX film series, and was produced by Revolution Studios for Columbia Pictures.
Vin Diesel and Rob Cohen, the lead actor and director of the original, had signed on to a sequel before the first film had opened, but both dropped out over scripting issues, while Cohen worked on Stealth. Cohen remained as an executive producer. Ice Cube took over the lead role as the new Triple X agent and Tamahori was brought in to direct, following the huge commercial success of the James Bond film Die Another Day, which he directed. Two different scripts were prepared for the film, and the one written by Simon Kinberg was selected; the other script featured a radically different plot.