What does the world need right now? Whatever your answer to that thought-provoking teaser is, we’d put the mortgage on it now revolving around a fourth xXx movie. Well tough, for that’s what’s on the way.

The H Collective has moved to announce that they have purchase the rights to the franchise from Revolution Studios, and that plans are underway for a fourth picture to happen. Revolution will maintain the rights to the previous three instalments in the series.

On this news, The H Collective’s Nic Crawley enthused, “During my time at Paramount I was lucky to be involved in the development and distribution of xXx: Return of Xander Cage. The response from the Chinese box office was unprecedented. Bringing the next installment of the xXx franchise to The H Collective complements our diversified slate and mission to produce content for a global audience.”

While the xXx franchise is one that has often had us at Moonbase Alpha scratching our heads, there most certainly is an audience for these movies. That’s reflected in the near $1 billion combined box office haul of the three pervious films.

Early word on this next xXx effort has xXx: Return of Xander Cage’s DJ Caruso pegged to again direct, with Diesel back to star as Xander Cage. Joe Roth and Jeff Kirschenbaum will be producing alongside Diesel’s One Race Films production banner and The H Collective.

The current plan is for this latest adventure to start production this December.