News hit a few days back that Vin Diesel would be returning to his Riddick character in a new movie revolving around the most wanted man in a distopian future universe.
But what direction would they take the character? Well we get an idea on just that today…
Though billed as a back-to-basics approach to the character popularized by Diesel, the script features the character — the most wanted man in the galaxy — left for dead on a barren alien planet, dealing with “trisons” (three-legged bisons) and “mud demons.” He must then contend with two squads of bounty hunters, one of which ride rockets called jetcycles.
So unlike the evolutionary tale that took a Barbarian Nomad to become a conquering king, Riddick’s tale will be going back to what made the franchise a success to begin with… a single adventure tale with an interesting anti-hero with a tiny soft side.
Sounds like the same formula that brought him back to the Fast and Furious franchise. Back to basics.
That worked out well for him there. I hope this equates to success for him for Riddick as well.
