The Hollywood Reporter has given us our first taste of what the “Chronicles of Riddick” sequel will be all about — basically a “back to basics” storytelling that, from the sounds of it, is more “Pitch Black” than the clunky, epic-wannabe mess that was its sequel, “The Chronicles of Riddick”. Hey, I liked both movies, but let’s face it, who the hell cares about the Underverse or whatever the hell it was called. Give me a primitive, primal looking Riddick going up against people in high-tech suits with space guns armed with only a prison shank and it’s all good.
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.
It sure sounds like they’re going back to “Pitch Black” and pretending like “Chronicles of Riddick” never happened. If that’s the case, then I gotta admit, I’m all for it. They could basically reboot the character without mentioning the “reboot” word.
The film is apparently very in-demand over at the European Film Market, where a lot of new films are vying for top dollar. “Riddick” is one of them.
So wait, you're some kind of super orphan destined to kill some undead dude trying to kill everyone in the universe? Wow, that sounds stupid.
