Vin Diesel Fuels Fire for Riddick Sequels

Posted by Adam Sweeney (adam@filmschoolrejects.com) on August 27, 2008

Vin Diesel in The Chronicles of Riddick Vin Diesel’s been to Babylon and back, now, in spite of the odds, he’s ready to continue the Chronicles of Riddick.

MTV Movies Blog caught up with the last, or most recent, action hero and it seems Diesel is ready to make good on the promise he made a few years back about a sequel to the Richard B. Riddick story. Now Diesel not only wants to do one more story, he is considering a fourth chapter as well.

“David Twohy 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 in mind,” Diesel said.

The most recent entry, The Chronicles of Riddick, was said to be the equivalent of Riddick’s “The Hobbit,” a prequel about the Furyan warrior who stood out in the 2000 film Pitch Black.

Diesel also explained where Riddick will go next, having taken the title of Necromonger King in the previous entry. “Sooner or later we all end up in the Underverse,” Diesel told MTV.

The question many people are asking is if the story of Riddick can stand up to two more films, especially after it only made $57 million domestically. Diesel seems to think so. “Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it,” Diesel explained when asked why it took so long to get another Riddick film out. “It just takes five years to make another one because David Twowy and I are so precious about it.”

Precious? Has Vin Diesel gone Gollum on us? It would explain why Diesel disappeared off the film radar for quite some. That or he needed time to heal from the sting of criticism The Pacifier and Find Me Guilty received.

Would you be interested in seeing two more Riddick stories? Does Vin Diesel still have star power?

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Don B

I loved Pitch Black and Riddick and would like to see more films.Although,considering how poorly the last one did, I think this is just wishful thinking on his part.I hope I'm wrong.

Nevernude

im all up for more riddick!! vin diesel does badass like nobody's business. just get the script right. no more alien hocus pocus. how about going to riddick's homeland or riddick settling down with some family until some bad guys do away with them leaving him wanting revenge a la The Punisher...plus, since the riddick world is a whole lot bigger, we can have some interplanetry chases...

Aleric

I wonder how people can say the movie didn't do well when everyone I know of not only saw the movie but liked it. Hell I loved it and would pay to see two more in that universe.

Riddick has moved beyond the escaped prisoner, he can't just become an ex con on the run again. He now has the power and ability to do what he was unable to do by himself. How he chooses to do it is what will be the true challenge. Does he use the iron fist and force his will upon the others or will he use the forces in his control to retake his home world and release those forced into service in his army? Lots of pit falls and chances for coupe attempts.

Cole Abaius

Chronicles was a flop by any standard. The reviews were mixed, and it was at least $30 million short of breaking even. That's a lot of money to lose. I guess part of that was releasing two weeks before Spider Man 2, but even its opening weekend wasn't really that strong.

I'm sort of surprised that Universal would be interested in continuing after such a loss on investment. Did they recoup cost in the DVD world?

790

I loved Cronicles more than Pitch Black,,, hell yeah I want 2 more films !!!!!
This is great news.

Gisuro

Thats great news I really like the Riddick character. I`ve been waiting for more movies of the diesel-Twohy team for years.

rasicar

I saw Chronicles more than 4 times in the theatre (we have a 1.50 in town). Loved it each time I saw it. I'm surprised that they are doing another one (don't get me wrong, I'm down) due to the poor reviews. It seemed to me like a lot of people didn't get it.

Some people I spoke with who didn't like it said that it wasn't what they were expecting. My response was "what, did you expect Riddick to land on another planet filled with critters that only come out at night?" They immediately changed there tune, rewatched it and said that they've turned around and enjoy it.

I just love it because of how much of a universe it opened up. There are some definite possibilities for Riddick in the future. *Here's to wondering if he'll find a way to bring Kiera back... assuming she went to the Underverse*

Bosco

I think that could be a cool idea to go to the Underverse but the point is what would happen if he could mean even if he reached the Underverse who would stop him i mean there's no religion say there are keeper's of the underverse cause all that's said is that if you die then you go and that living people can enter. If people can enter the Underverse with out dieing then why would you need death? Yeah the movie was good but what will happen to the nerco's will they reach the underverse with riddick as the leader it's anoying to me leaveing so many unanswered question's

HempKnight757

Idc to be honest because anything with Vin Diesel in it I most likely won't see.

JD

Advice: Skip the Riddick movies, play the game. The game, titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay, has garnered the accolades the movies could only dream of. It serves as the prequel to the films and was developed by Starbreeze Studios and Tigon Games (a game production house owned by Vin Diesel himself).

Vin Diesel Fuels Fire for Riddick Sequels

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