This part of a Colm Feore article in Starlog March 04. (Thanks to Danistababy)

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BLACK HAT


    A bell rings on the other side of a dividing wall of the Vancouver Film Studios soundstage where Paycheck is lensing.  It's followed by the familiar call, "Action!"

    Voices grow hushed.  With six weeks of shooting left,there's one thing Feore doesn't have to worry about.  That's where his next paycheck is coming from.  Once this film wraps, Feore will remain in Vancouver to start a new project.

    "I'm in The Chronicles of Riddick," he reveals, referring to the Pitch Black sequel,which again stars Vin Diesel.

    "David Twohy,the writer-director, is heavenly," Feore enthuses.  " He's very smart.  He knows exactly what he wants-yet at the same time he's open to ideas and will listen and guide you.  Our relationship so far is very carefully and intelligently [built upon] a common goal:  making Riddick clear and good.  So I'm looking forward to that."

    Feore plays the Lord Marshal.but the actor is tight-lipped about character details.

    "You mean is he bad?"
 
    Feore laughs."  I think he's probably pretty bad,yeah.  I'm preparing for the part as I would for Hamlet or Richard III.  I'm treating it extremely classically.  He's a delicately layered [character] with intelligence and far-sightedness."

The plot is similarly off limits.

"I might have to kill you," he draws.  "It's one of those sort of things.  Obviously, Vin is a carryover.  But Riddick goes in a different direction.  It's 500 years in the future, and there are powers that work in the world-worlds-who are taking over."

    Feore does offer this hint:  "David has described it as the dark side of Star Wars.  It's that upside-down.  We've discussed at great length the nature of the very challenging and interesting classical references made throughout the film.  The writing is very strongly structured.  The story is fabulous and [will be] exciting to watch.  David has managed to cobble Riddick together in such a way that it has dozens of allusions to great classical works-be they Greek, Shakespearean or Biblical-and the histories of conquered worlds and conquered peoples.  It's a magnificent attempt to effortlessly add dozens of layers of depth."   

09:00am ET, 22-January-04

Lehman Reveals Riddick Hints


    Kristin Lehman, who co-stars with Vin Diesel in the upcoming SF movie The Chronicles of Riddick, told SCI FI Wire that her character will share a bond with Diesel's antihero. "I play the only other Furyan in the film," Lehman (TV's Strange World) said in an interview. "Vin is, as we know, a Furyan. And this, of course, is the odyssey for him, to realize who he is, what he comes from, what his odyssey is. And I am the Furyan who brings that out in him. I come to him."

    In Riddick, the follow-up film to 2000's Pitch Black, viewers discover that Furyans are a mysterious and vanished race of people who stand as the universe's only countermeasure to the rapacious Necromongers, who are sweeping through the galaxy. "You've got to see the movie to see what a Furyan is," the Canadian-born Lehman said. "That's the planet that they come from, Furya. And the movie is all about [Riddick's] finding out—and us finding out—what a Furyan is. And as you know, [the Chronicles of Riddick is envisioned as the first of] three films, so hopefully this one will be spectacular, and they'll want to make more and more, and we'll get to delve more and more into the culture and the people and the characters."

    Lehman said she originally auditioned unsuccessfully for a role in Pitch Black. "I had read with [Diesel] originally for Pitch Black, so I was familiar with him," she said. "He's one of the executive producers on this, so he has a real strong personal stake in it. It was great. ... He's incredibly creative. He's an incredibly rich, creative man. And this film, I think, is a testament to how invested he is with telling stories."

    Lehman added that Riddick will expand greatly on the universe introduced in the first movie. "[It's] entirely different," she said. "It's vast, it's epic. ... Tremendous in scope and tremendous in special effects." Riddick, from writer/director David Twohy, opens June 11.

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09:00am ET, 16-January-04

David Returns In Riddick


    Keith David, who reprises his Pitch Black character in the upcoming follow-up movie The Chronicles of Riddick, told SCI FI Wire that he is one of the few characters to reappear from the first film. "I still play the Imam," he said. "And I'm [one of the] the only characters from Pitch Black that carries over, besides Riddick, of course [and Kyra, who is now grown]. And I think it's going to be wonderful. It's certainly epic in scope, and I haven't seen anything, but the sets were fantastic. They were some of the best sets I've ever seen in my life. ... Pitch Black was very small in comparison. This movie's going to be huge."

    Riddick picks up the story a few years after the events of Pitch Black and takes the franchise in an entirely new direction, with a bigger story and a new threat, the Necromongers. Audiences, meanwhile, will catch up with David's character on his home world. "I'm only in New Mecca," David said. "I believe that what happens makes sense, and to me it's important in this sci-fi genre to make senes. Because, you know, a lot of times you'll see these $100 million films with fantastic special effects, but it makes no sense. I believe that this will make some sense."

    David admitted that the success of the first film caught him by surprise. "Very surprised," he said. "I know people like things. I have my opinions and my tastes. I just had no idea it would be as big as it is. I didn't think people would dislike it or anything. But it has become a sort of cult thing. So ... I'm pleased as punch to be invited to the party." The Chronicles of Riddick is slated for a June release.

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