Vin Diesel Drops Some More Riddick Info

Along with the Nix unit, our fearless leader, I am also a huge fan of Pitch Black, starring our reflective eyed hero Mr. Riddick. One of the best Sci-Fi actioners ever in my humble opinion. Vin is seeing something of a resurgence lately and that is good news for those of us who love the Sci-FI monster stuff.

Vin had this to say about hobbits. Just read the quote.

“There is a scaled down portion of this that goes back to the Pitch Black style of telling the story,” Diesel said in a group interview in Hollywood, where he was promoting Fast & Furious. “It’s hot.”

“Well, you remember when I had talked about Riddick, I talked about Riddick as being the Fellowship in the Tolkien [Lord of the Rings] series. So I was using Pitch Black as Hobbit, as the independent story that introduces you to the world of Middle-earth, and then taking The Chronicles of Riddick and treating it as a trilogy that goes from the story that you saw, to the Underverse and ultimately to Furya in the third film.”

“Yeah, absolutely,” Diesel said. “That’s exactly what I’m saying. So if you think of Pitch Black as an introduction to the world—if you think of Lord of the Rings, and I’m just using it as a parallel—you’re thinking of Lord of the Rings, there are three books, a trilogy. You would think of The Chronicles of Riddick as the first in that trilogy, and there will be two more to follow.”

His Dieselness has earlier mentioned that the next Riddick film would open with him battling against monsters that want to eat him. Best way to open any movie if you ask me.

The second Riddick film, as The Nix has mentioned, was way too ambitious. I thought the film was kinda ballsy that way. Vin took a big reach, went epic with nihilist religious overtones. Didn’t work, but he and his team went for it. Failure in pursuit of passion is not a sin. Thanks Scifiwire.