That's hard to believe. The two movies don't even seem to take place in the same universe. Pitch Black feels very Clarke while Chronicles of Riddick feels very Tolkien.
Riddick Returns ?
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I believe it would be,will be, a trilogy starting with Chronicles as the first movie, not Pitch Black.
I didn't think Pitch Black was anything special. Riddick, on the other hand, had the potential for a great story that it never delivered on.
Since his career never really took off the way it was expected to, Vin's suddenly a lot more open to all these sequels.
You don't release a big budget summer blockbuster-type movie on the last weekend of August if it's any good. Then you throw in not being screened for critics and the director talking about how bad it is to make things even better.
Since his career never really took off the way it was expected to, Vin's suddenly a lot more open to all these sequels.
You don't release a big budget summer blockbuster-type movie on the last weekend of August if it's any good. Then you throw in not being screened for critics and the director talking about how bad it is to make things even better.
I like Riddick, too. Chronices was an insane mess, but sometimes I don't hold that against a movie.
I certainly don't. Loved Chronicles. Dug Southland Tales, too.
Ambitious, well crafted messes are always welcome. If I get good characters and good ideas that don't quite gell as a whole, I'll take that over a competent, but largely ho-hum well crafted piece, ie typical Brett Ratner.
For a while, that man was doing nothing but franchise hoppin'. He'd star in a really popular movie, get offered a truckload of money to do the sequel, then turn it down to start yet another franchise. He turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious in favor of doing xXx. He turned down the xXx sequel in favor of doing The Chronicles of Riddick.
Now, he's coming back for The Fast & the Furious 4. They can't bring him back for another xXx movie because they already killed off his character off screen in xXx: State of the Union. So maybe Riddick 3 is next in the cards?
They could always use a nonsense excuse like "he faked his death" for the XXX movies, or just eliminate the second film from existence with selective continuity.
It's surprising to see him back in Fast and The Furious (4). Although the cameo he apparently had at the end of the third movie might have been an indicator of that going forward.
It's surprising to see him back in Fast and The Furious (4). Although the cameo he apparently had at the end of the third movie might have been an indicator of that going forward.
True enough. Even the short movie on the xXx unrated DVD that showed "the death of Xander Cage" was so unspeakably lame that it's almost a sacred duty to wipe that out of existence.
What he said. I didn't think it needed explination since the films are too different and not connected really.
Somehow I don't think people realize that his career has taken off. Assuming that because a lot of his movies get poor reviews, he isn't a successful actor is false. Fact is, post-Saving Private Ryan and Boiler Room, he's done Fast and the Furious, XxX and the Riddick franchise, as well as many other films. Now granted, having the college frat people and scifi cult nerds digging him isn't mainstream popularity, but he still gets that fat paycheck. From the perspective of simply making millions of dollars per job, I think he's doing fairly well. And I think he knows this.
For the record, Fast and the Furious was a blatant and inferior rip-off of Point Break, XxX was damn near unwatchable and Riddick was a mess. With Babylon A.D. looking like it's a good ten years behind the times and poised to disappear without a splash, I think it's fair to say that Vin, talented though he is has made some very poor choices since Pitch Black.
That's the point. Diesel played the XXX game and, being a keen gamer himself, realised it sucked so he started his own company to make games that don't suck.
