It appears that Riddick may be venturing forth to a fourth film! We get wind of two possible sequels from Vin himself via Latino Review:
“David Twowy 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 more in mind,” he said of Riddick, the Furyan warrior first introduced in the 2000 film “Pitch Black.” “‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ was presented as a three part trilogy that would answer ‘Pitch Black’ in the same way that ‘Lord of the Rings’ answered ‘The Hobbit.’”
“Everyone knows I love the Riddick character and I’m always working on it,” Diesel asserted. “It just takes five years to make another one because David Twohy and I are so precious about it.”
I didn’t mind Pitch Black, but at the time I certainly didn’t think the film would become a franchise of four. It remains to be seen if the plan will come together on this one, I would guess that funding is taking just as much time as their precious panning and meticulous script crafting. Serious scripts are chiseled out of wood, sandalwood to be specific.
If they do land funding, filming both films simultaneously makes perfect sense. If four films get made, I must have a Riddick day in the future where I watch all the pictures in order. It will be cause for celebration and much talk of eye polishing will be thrown about.
The true test of any franchise is if they make lunch boxes with the hero on it (I still have my Star Wars lunch box from kindergarten). Let Riddick be judged by the luncheon council.
