I absolutely HATED Pitch Black. I thought it was overrated, the “action” was dull and boring, the characters uninteresting, the dialog laughable and the acting atrocious. I honestly can’t understand why anyone liked it. But oh well… to each their own. And hey… I liked Daredevil so who am I to judge?
Oddly enough, I actually liked The Chronicles of Riddick a little bit more than most people (not much… just a little bit) and thought it was at least a better effort than Pitch Black. But most people disagreed. Still… I remember thinking there was potential for more films… and I guess Vin Diesel did too. Our good friends over at Filmrot gives us the following on Diesels plans for the future:
“…But when I was in the process of creating this mythology for ‘Chronicles of Riddick,’ the idea was to create a story, a trilogy, that would start at the end of ‘Pitch Black’ in the same way that ‘Lord of the Rings’ is a trilogy that starts at the end, essentially, of ‘The Hobbit.’ I wrote a storyline, essentially, that covered three pictures, so where Riddick goes in the next two pictures is already mapped out. It’s not in script form, but it is being all developed, and it is going to surface when you least expect it.”
This is a first for The Movie Blog… 2 Vin Diesel posts in one day! Meh, to be honest I don’t mind the idea of a couple of more Riddick films. I think they’re good for some decent campy sci-fi action fun. I’d see them. Your thoughts?
