I'm Going to Kill You With My Tea Cup: The Chronicles of Riddick

More word on next Riddick

Maybe we're too tight-lipped about the next Chronicles of Riddick film, and I think circa the release of [Dark Athena] that's probably when you'll start hearing more about the next Riddick film. It is underway
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David Twohy is finishing up the next script.

 

Vin Doesel interview

Question: Would this third, smaller scale Riddick close the trilogy?

Diesel: Well, you remember when I had talked about Riddick, I talked about Riddick as being The Fellowship in the Tolkien series. So I was using Pitch Black as Hobbit as the independent story that introduces you to the world of Middle Earth, and then taking the Chronicles of Riddick and treating it as a trilogy that goes from the story that you saw to the underverse and ultimately to Furia in the third film.

Question: Twohy's writing it?

Diesel: He's currently writing the third. It's hot, but to answer your question specifically about the scaled down aspect, yes. There is a scaled down portion of this that goes back to the Pitch Black style of telling the story.

Question: But it's still the 2nd, not the third?

Diesel: Yeah, absolutely. That's exactly what I'm saying. So if you think of Pitch Black as an introduction to the world. If you think of Lord of the Rings and I'm just using it as a parallel. You're thinking of Lord of the Rings, there are three books, a trilogy. You would think of The Chronicles of Riddick as the first in that trilogy and there will be two more to follow.

So the third movie will be about Furia itself.

 

Heh. His D&D roots are showing

 

It's the reverse of those who saw PB- going from a surprisingly clever little film to an epic fantasy.

 

While he's certainly passionate about this series, I think it has more to do with the Hannibal movie he's been trying to produce and direct for a few years now.

 

Vin Diesel has revealed the working titles of the second and third Chronicles of Riddick films: "The Underverse? and ?The Furyan", and that they may be produced at the same time. And that they're pushing for an R rating for at least one of them, if not both.

 

Well, I think the success of the R-rated Director's Cut has been one factor that propelled this effort forward (and the PG-13 theatrical cut contributing to it's below-expected boxoffice performance), and if they scale back the cost enough, they can probably pull it off.

 

Vin says...

The Riddick team is in New Zealand location scouting already... that's exciting.

 

Vin Diesel Set For A Third Time As Riddick

Vin Diesel is officially set to star in and produce a third film featuring his famed anti-hero character Riddick for Universal Pictures and Lionsgate reports Variety.

"Pitch Black" and "The Chronicles of Riddick" writer/director David Twohy will helm from his own screenplay. The story will avoid the large scale space opera of 'Chronicles' in favour of a dark, character-driven thriller more along "Pitch Black" lines.

Production is not expected to get underway until after Diesel finishes work on "Fast Five", the fifth film in the "Fast and Furious" franchise.

 

Perhaps- but then it's hard to argue he was among the reasons FAF opened so ridiculously well. He tried going the Arnie/Rock route with a family comedy, didn't work out, now he's leveraging his more successful stuff to regain his status and presumably hlp launch his further projects (just when the hell that Hannibal movie comes out, Duke Nuke'Em would love to see it ).

 

Next Riddick synopsis

"Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before.

Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge.

With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction."