Chinese actor Jet Li has officially announced that he's going to join Vin Diesel in the upcoming action movie "xXx3: The Return of Xander Cage".

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Hong Kong martial arts expert will star as the bad guy leading a team of his own against Diesel's Xander Cage.

In the original "xxx" movie released in 2002, Cage was a sports enthusiast, eventually tricked into working with the National Security Agency as a spy and had to fight a group of potential terrorists in Central Europe.

"Furious 7" actor Tony Jaa is also reportedly going to be in the film with Samuel Jackson and Ruby Rose.

The third installment of the xXx franchise will begin filming next month.

Source: china.org.cn