xXx - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of xXx or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to xXx

[claude]

In the action scene on the drug farm, Vin Diesel and/or his stunt driver were wearing bulky helmets, which were replaced with a CGI version of Diesel's head, created by the people at Digital Domain, who also repainted parts of the clothing which were obscured by the helmet(s).

[darrell]

In one scene, two cops who are heard speaking in Czech are saying, quite clearly, something along the lines of "How's it going?" - "Oh, it's cold as st." - "Yeah, fking weather." The dialogue is not subtitled.

[aaron]

Vin Diesel and Samuel L Jackson play heroes the MCU. Vin Diesel plays Groot. Samuel L Jackson plays Nick Fury.

[tamara]

DIRECTOR CAMEO (Rob Cohen as the horse-riding Colombian, and later as the voice of the telephone caller who informs Yorgi (Marton Csokas) that xXx (Vin Diesel) is a spy.

[mathew]

Stunt player Harry O'Connor was killed when he hit a pillar of the Palacky Bridge in Prague, para-sailing during one of the actions scenes. The accident occured while filming the second take of the stunt; O'Connor's first attempt was completed without incident and can be seen in the completed film.

[jesse]

xXx's car is a 1967 Pontiac GTO. The first car purchased by the studio to build up for the film, still wore its original GM/Pontiac paint color, known as Montreux Blue, which, after thirty-plus years in the California sun, had severely faded.

[jessica]

This movie reteamed Vin Diesel with his The Fast and the Furious (2001) Director Rob Cohen.

[phyllis]

The middle X is capitalized to differentiate the film from the porn rating.

[caroline]

The punk song Yorgi (Marton Csokas) quotes when he talks to Xander (Vin Diesel) about freedom is "Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government)" by The Vandals.

[jessie]

Shot in eighty-two days.

[charlie]

The closing scene with Xander (Vin Diesel) and Yelena (Asia Argento) sunbathing in Bora Bora was filmed at the Sofitel Motu Bora Bora, in their over water bungalow #115.

[jessie]

In Colombia, Xander jumps a motocross bike over the barn where he'd been tied up. The building explodes with careful pyrotechnics, and Xander makes it safely to the other side. This stunt had never been done before for any film.

[ken]

According to Director Rob Cohen, there are over twenty thousand individual sound effects in the avalanche sequence.

[lena]

Yorgi's club in the opening sequence (with "Rammstein" concert) was actually an abandoned church north of Prague. The club where "Orbital" performs is actually a high-voltage electrical testing facility just outside of Prague.

[gabriel]

Samuel L. Jackson's character in this film has a scar on his face and eye, just like his character Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe does.

[eli]

The Corvette jump was filmed, simultaneously with eighteen cameras, at the Foresthill Bridge in Auburn, California. At seven hundred thirty feet, it is the tallest bridge in California, and the third tallest in the United States.

[scarlett]

The production asked the Czech Air Force for the loan of two of their jets for the film, only to be told that they could have the entire fleet. All that was required as payment was a fifty thousand dollar donation to a pilots' hospital, and to buy beer for all the soldiers involved.

[michele]

The N.S.A. set was built in Prague. It contains one hundred twenty monitors.

[ivan]

The first film in which Vin Diesel plays the lead role.