Riddick sequels still coming?

[Gianakin_]

Like Pro--Pro---Prometheus?

Nothing at all like Prometheus.

 

[Octoberist]

I meant, it's a movie where you can admire the visuals but the movie was meh. Well at least to me...I don't know about you.

 

[Gianakin_]

The script was very problematic, but it did at least (try to) explore themes and had one amazing performance and one more than solid one, imo. Then there was the music and a decent amount of suspense.

 

[dude stannis]

And a woman giving birth to Cthulhu.

 

[Gianakin_]

You can't beat that. Although you can fap to it.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Prometheus was pretty damn awesome and highly underrated.

 

[Teelie]

And a woman giving birth to Cthulhu.

When you don't have an ocean to rise from, you gotta improvise.

 

[dude stannis]

You can't beat that. Although you can fap to it.

When you don't have an ocean to rise from, you gotta improvise.

 

[rashad]

Riddick - International Trailer
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40 Things to Know About Riddick:

• They went into Chronicles of Riddick thinking they were going to make an R-rated film, but when the budget went up the studio said they had to make it PG-13.
• When the film begins, you think you’re going to be in the Underverse leading a huge army, but very quickly you realize that Riddick and the main characters are fighting for their lives again, left for dead on a planet.
• Diesel turned down 2 Fast 2 Furious in order to write Chronicles of Riddick.
• Diesel didn’t try to go “bigger and better” with the film’s action, he just wanted it to be an honest continuation of the story.
• In order to get their R-rating and a certain amount of creative freedom, Diesel agreed to make the movie for scale and went “bare bones” with the filmmaking this time around.
• Diesel wanted to wait to make the sequel with David Twohy directing instead of moving forward sooner with someone else.
• According to Diesel, Riddick will reveal a David Twohy that we’ve never seen before and it’s going to “blow people away.”
• Diesel’s preparation process for Riddick involved going away to the woods for five months before filming begins in order to get into the isolation mindset.
• There are plans for more video game tie-ins to Riddick, in which Diesel is heavily involved. The video game deals with the mercenary world.
• Two further sequels are planned after Riddick, in which the story will move to the Underverse and Furya.
• Riddick is more Pitch Black in the way it’s about the actors and less about spaceships.
• The film is loaded with practical sets and effects, but everything will be amplified with CG.
• Riddick is filming on four stages and using 15 sets.
• The film will feature some flashback sequences which help explain what happened from the last film to where Riddick is now.
• The costume department located some costumes from the last film in Europe and brought them in and gave them a weathered and rusty look.
• Twohy says that Chronicles was made with a lot of studio input, and so when it came time to make Riddick on a much smaller budget, he and Diesel opted for more creative freedom.
• With Riddick, the team was concerned with paying off the loyal fans. They didn’t add things in the film that would help people who haven’t seen the other two movies understand the story better.
• Riddick plays in a gratifying way as a standalone movie, but there are also threads from Pitch Black and Chronicles that they continue and they have sewed in threads for future movies.
• Diesel and Twohy sat down and asked themselves how many more stories they could tell with the character before it started to run out of steam, and they settled on two more movies after Riddick.
• There are around 850-900 visual effects shots in the film.
• Twohy shot the film on digital using the ARRI Alexa camera.
• At it’s core, Twohy says Riddick is a Jeremiah Johnson-like survival movie.
• Karl Urban’s character returns in order to advance the film’s mythology and lay the groundwork for the next film.
• The Riddick sequel would demand a bigger budget because it centers on the battle of Underverse.
• The plan is for the odd numbered films in the series to be smaller scale, while the even numbered films will be larger in scope.
• Riddick was shot in 49 days and the budget is around 40 million.
• Whenever the camera is close to the actors, Twohy uses puppet pieces for the creatures, but when it’s a mid or wide shot he uses CG.
• Katee Sackhoff’s character is the sniper of the group and she carries an electrical current gun.
• Sackhoff came up with the backstory for her character herself.
• Sackhoff describes Dahl as “the toughest, most deadly” character she’s ever played.
• Diesel and Twohy hadn’t seen Battlestar Galactica when they cast Sakchoff.
• Sackhoff thinks part of the reason she landed the role was because she brought a lot of sci-fi fans with her from BSG and she was also well-versed in the physical stuff, so she wouldn’t need a lot of training.
• Sackhoff had been in the mix for the female lead in the film for a while, but the reason she won the role is because when Diesel and the casting director called at 10:30pm for her to come to Diesel’s house and read for them, she got out of bed and showed up.
• After realizing everyone in the cast was physically big, Sackhoff trained by gaining 10 pounds of muscle and ate a lot.
• The planet in Riddick is never explicitly identified.
• They tried to use more warmer colors in Riddick in order to give the film a different look from Chronicles and Pitch Black.
• There was originally an entirely CG-created character in the film, but it proved too costly to include.
• David Bautista’s character is the “misfit” of the group.
• Bautista’s character has a 75-round clip in his gun that’s big and loud, which mirrors his physical attributes.
• Bautista studied the fight between Diesel and Dwayne Johnson in Fast Five in order to prepare for Riddick.
• Bautista’s character has some one-liners in the film to bring some levity to the world of Riddick.

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[Doc Ock]

Those bolded plans sound really awesomely epic!

 

[Gianakin_]

I just hope it's not as much a rehash of Pitch Black as the trailer implies.

 

[Octoberist]

That's my only issue with the film. I feel like, if you're going back to basics, don't go back to the 'alien stalking humans' again.

Leave it with Riddick and the mercs. Or maybe, just have Riddick get locked up at that prison again, and have him escape. That too could be done on the cheap.

 

[Teelie]

From what I can see it's a mixture of both. Aliens hunting humans as the humans hunt Riddick, capture him, then all hell breaks loose with Riddick in the middle. There's only so much they can do to a character who has the major advantage of seeing in the dark.

 

[Donut]

Just don't make us wait so long for the rest of the sequels & film them back to back

 

[Teelie]

So long as they don't get too big in the budget like Chronicles did they should be okay.

 

[StarLord]

 

[Autonet]

I'm ready.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Loved the new extended trailer from CC, the CGI was a big improvement over the last trailer, and we got to see some more action as well, cannot wait for this.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I guess my take on the difference between PITCH BLACK and CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is that PB is in a FIREFLY type universe, and COR is in a FARSCAPE type universe. Neither is really hard science fiction but one has more of a fantasy vibe. I loved PB and while I just can't get into what they do in COR, I admire that Vin was being ambitious and giving us something that reminded me of reading HEAVY METAL as a teenager.

 

[Doc Ock]

I guess my take on the difference between PITCH BLACK and CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is that PB is in a FIREFLY type universe, and COR is in a FARSCAPE type universe. Neither is really hard science fiction but one has more of a fantasy vibe. I loved PB and while I just can't get into what they do in COR, I admire that Vin was being ambitious and giving us something that reminded me of reading HEAVY METAL as a teenager.

I like that reference to one being Firefly and one being Farscape. I think it will be an alternating scenario where this movie will be another Firefly and what follows will be the Farscape type. I love the first two movies for different reasons I like how drastically different they are.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Can they pull off a film with both elements in it though?

 

[Doc Ock]

Can they pull off a film with both elements in it though?

One side I think would need to be really toned down for it to work, this new film may have some of that.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

You have to give Vin credit for keeping this thing going, and working with the same director (I think, right?). He is doing what Arnold SHOULD have done with Conan. Ironic, to me, since I see Riddick as a Conan-esque character.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^I just hope we get to see more movies after this as well, as their plans sound great.

Also, I definately saw some of the creatures from PB in the new trailer, or things that looked very similar to them.

 

[Teelie]

Different monsters but the same idea; they come out at night when everyone but Riddick are at their most vulnerable.