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Vin Diesel
Talks Making Of 'Riddick' Sequel
[Mon
March 10, 2003 08:18PM]
Vin
Diesel is to start
start filming the sci-fi sequel film Riddick in Vancouver in two weeks.
He told SciFi-Wire that after difficulty with the contact lenses in the
previous Pitch Black movie he has made sure that better quality lenses
are used this time.
Diesel
says that he had a
bigger hand in the making of the sequel. "[I've been] creating creature
characteristics and attributes you won't see until scene two or scene
three and researching on the Internet to explain negative matter: where
these villains come from, these Necromongers. [We have to explain]
their scientific existence."
"We're
going to create this
huge universe." adds Diesel. "I'm excited about exploring this
character's purpose in this universe and what his whole deal is."
Riddick
will be one of three
movies centered around Diesel's character, and is expected open June
25, 2004.
Article
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Judi Dench
To Join 'Pitch Black 2' Cast
[Mon
February 17, 2003 09:12PM]
Judi Dench is in final
talks to star opposite Vin Diesel in the Pitch Black sequel -
Chronicles of Riddick, says Hollywood Reporter.
Written
and directed by David
Twohy, the project begins production in Vancouver in April. At the same
time, Colm Feore has come aboard to play the lead villain in the movie,
which is about an intergalactic prisoner named Riddick who has the
ability to see in the dark. In the sequel, Riddick, now a hunted man,
finds himself in the middle of two opposing forces in a major crusade.
Feore will
play Lord Marshal,
a warrior priest who is the leader of a sect that is waging the 10th
and perhaps final crusade 500 years in the future. Dench will play
Aereon, an ambassador from the Elemental race. She is an ethereal being
who helps Riddick unearth his origins.
Article
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Twohy Says
'Pitch Black 2' Is 'Star Wars' Evil Twin
[Wed
June 19, 2002 07:23PM]
Harry at AICN received
a letter from David Twohy director to the sequel to "Pitch Black,"
"Riddick."
So I wrote a treatment for a
sequel two years ago, and it was deemed too big, too rich of a
follow-up. Well, that was then -- and Vin is now. We can think “too
big.” So we’re using that treatment as a matrix, layering in new
characters and new dimensions as we create a whole multi-verse that
will carry us through two, possibly three more films. It’s a
multi-verse full of competing agendas and countervailing strengths.
Riddick is but one of those strengths, and he’ll tap into primal powers
he didn’t know he had, evolving into something more powerful. Something
even darker.
To bring
it into focus for
the studio, I pitched a franchise that would be “the evil twin of ‘Star
Wars’.” And they got it immediately. Instead of cold technology on
parade, “Chronicles” will be a hot-blooded affair that marches to the
tune of corruption, defiance, chaos. It won’t be so much a horror film
(as some thought “Pitch Black” to be) as a dark action-adventure movie
with our own brand of epic mythology.
Oh, did I
mention "dark"?
One of the
things we saw,
early on, was a parallel to the “Terminator” series: The audience
actually liked the antagonist by the end of the first movie. Knowing
this, Cameron smartly changed the dynamic for the sequel, pitting
Arnold against the T-1000, overmatching him so that the audience could
root for him. Well, point taken: We will overmatch Riddick in all our
follow-up movies. He has to have Big Foes, and we’ve got them. Plenty
of ‘em.
David Twohy
Corona was
at this year's
annual New York City licensing show and reps for Universal Studios were
handing out this piece of promotional artwork for Riddick. As you can
tell, it's nothing more than a still that we saw in Pitch Black, just
to give potential licensees a sci-fi vibe, but it does also list 2004
as a prospective release date for the sequel
Article
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David Twohy
Set To Helm 'Pitch Black' Sequel
[Thu
June 06, 2002 05:47PM]
Universal
Pictures has closed
a deal with "Pitch Black" writer-director David Twohy to helm the
film's sequel, "Riddick," with Vin Diesel back on board to reprise the
title role, reports The Hollywood Reporter
He has
also commited to two
more installments of the saga.
The
project continues the
adventures of Riddick, a brooding convict who in the first feature was
being transported as part of a space mission that was shipwrecked on a
mysterious planet.
The sequel
is expected to
flesh out the dark and corrupted universe that was only partially
glimpsed in the first installment.
Twohy is
rewriting the
material, whose previous writers included David Hayter and Akiva
Goldsman.
The
project will begin
shooting by the end of the year.
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