“Pitch Black”, starring Vin Diesel, was a great Sci-Fi creature feature. Looking back on it, it really had everything going for it. A great group of creatures with a believable ecology, interesting characters that provided suspenseful elements all by themselves and great action with delicious scary bits. Drawing all the elements together was Vin Diesel as Riddick, an interstellar badass from a really bad neighborhood.

The second film in the series, “The Chronicles of Riddick”, was an ambitious failure, although I liked it personally. Riddick was a kind of dark and twisted, religious space opera that made me sit up and pay attention.

So we’ve been waiting for more. Was Pitch Black a fluke? Can David Twohy and good old Vin make the magic work again? In a recent interview with Shock Til You Drop, Mr. Twohy spoke about his hopes for the continuing of the series in the Pitch Black style.

“The third movie would be more modestly-scaled and it would probably feel more like ‘Pitch Black’ then ‘Chronicles’,” he continued. “It will always be Riddick-centric. If the question is whether it will be more like the first one than the second one, the difference is that yeah, you can sell it on its creatures and say ‘This is a creature fest and we’re going to go out as us vs. the creatures’ but that’s like a lot of different movies. However, the hallmark of a good movie, and I think ‘Pitch Black’ is a good movie, is that even if you took the creatures out of the picture, you’d still have some pretty interesting character dynamics going on within that group, and it’s almost like you can tell the same story without the creature or substitute some other external pressure on the group, because there were internal pressures as well that were interesting. So was it really a creature feature? It had the hallmarks of it, the trappings of a creature movie, but it also had pretty good characters.”

Catch the rest of his interview at Shock. David also throws in a tidbit about another very interesting sounding movie he has on the burner that is being produced by Ridley Scott. Thanks ComingSoon for the word.