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Director David Twohy has recently announced that he is planning a third Riddick movie. Speaking to Bloody Disgusting, the director described how he and star Vin Diesel were both pooling their resources in bringing this project to life:
“I’ve sketched out two ideas for continuing Riddick, one of which Vin and I have settled in on,” said Twohy before going into a little more detail. “At the studio level, it would have to be a PG-13 movie again and we don’t want to do that again. We want an R, so we are looking at the possibility of setting it up as an independent movie and selling it territory by territory and thereby keeping an ownership stake in the movie. But we’re trying to see what that would yield in this unsafe market…”
Provided Twohy and Diesel get this Riddick feature properly mapped out and backed by a studio, the director saw no reason why this feature couldn’t go into a swift production:
“It could be my next movie. I know Vin’s going to slide in XXX first. He’s doing a sequel to that the first of the year. So the soonest we could launch would be sometime next year.”
SciFiNow will bring you more news on this project as and when further developments occur.
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Great that Twohy is sticking to his R-Rated guns on this and returning to the franchise’s indie roots. I didn’t hate Chronicles, but Pitch Black was clearly a far better movie: and, if we think back, it was an original concept, not based on a book, game or comic (is Riddick the Snake Plissken of the noughties – now there’s one for the SFN smack down).
A less-glossy 28th century has proven to work for Riddick in the past – and with a reduced budget, the Twohy/Diesel team will have to err on the side of “small is beautiful;” the huge themes and galactic backdrop of Chronicles were plainly the wrong environment for our Richard after all.
Twohy’s definitely saying the right, fan-pleasing things (between the lines: “It’s going to be darker”) and if he sticks to the direction above, there’s great potential.
2010 is shaping up to be a good year for Sci-Fi. Something to console us in post-World Cup depression, then!
Cheers
Russ
I agree with Russ – I liked Chronicles too, but I’m still nostalgic about PB – and I’m full of hope. I am a big fan of original, self-preserving, naturalistic Riddick and for this news I must say – as long as it will be Twohy/Diesel domain (they like and know the Riddick character) and as long as Vin Diesel plays Riddick… then I think I am looking forward to this very eagerly!
Yeah, boys, go and get it indie way! Good ol’ Pitch Black is the best!
(Although I am afraid of how far the Chronicles story and all that games stuff had gone meantime. Will it be possible to present something truly and darkly “riddickish”? I hope so!)
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