Riddick's adventures chronicled again...twice.

After two movies, a straight-to-DVD anime, a video game and a four year hiatus, Vin Diesel finally talks about the return of his semi-famous character. The original film, Pitch Black, was something of a fan-favorite. While the second movie didn't do too well, the video game was another fan-fave. So, it might somewhat make sense that they're planning two more sequels. Somewhat.

“David Twowy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the ‘Lord of the Rings’ guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time. There are two more in mind,” he said of Riddick, the Furyan warrior first introduced in the 2000 film “Pitch Black.” “‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ was presented as a three part trilogy that would answer ‘Pitch Black’ in the same way that ‘Lord of the Rings’ answered ‘The Hobbit.’”

I don't know about comparing the series to Lord of the Rings in any way, but I can see good coming to this. Unlike many, I still enjoyed the Chronicles of Riddick, even if it was a tad mediocre. With a remake of the video game scheduled, it makes sense to also try to bring it back to the big screen...even if the game winds up doing better than the movies.


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