RELATED: Watch: Vin Diesel's 5-second kill in 'Riddick' is still one of the wildest sci-fi movie kills everĮverything that happens in Riddick follows from that basic template, with competing teams of mercenaries arriving, each with very different reasons for wanting to claim their human prize. Knowing the bounty on his head is sure to entice someone to come calling, he lies in wait for a chance to commandeer whatever ship (or ships) might arrive, honing his well-attuned survival skills in the meantime with help from his new best friend - an alien jackal-dog-like animal brought to endearingly realistic CGI life under the keen eye of visual effects supervisor Alain Lachance. Riddick’s setup can be summed up with an elevator pitch: After a trip to find his home world of Furya goes treacherously wrong, our hero’s all on his lonesome once more on a hostile planet, where he finds an abandoned mercenary outpost and sets off its emergency beacon. Mere minutes into the movie, it’s easy to tell that Riddick’s the kind of film that isn’t interested in laying down layers of dense science fiction canon, it’s simply there to let Riddick do what Riddick does best: X out bad guys, save the innocent if he can, and follow a hero’s moral code that doesn’t need a universe of bounty hunters looking to cramp his style. After trying to tame its leading man by plunking him down in The Chronicles of Riddick’s overpopulated story-verse, Diesel and Twohy pivoted big-time with Riddick, stranding him once again on an isolated planet as a fugitive on the run. After all, if you’re gonna keep making movies about a guy with freaky eyes who prefers to fly solo, don’t you need to give him more to do than hang out on barren planets with only wildlife to keep him company? Why Riddick Was a Return to FormĪs it turns out - and as Riddick would go on to prove - not necessarily. But for all its faults, it did evolve Riddick’s backstory beyond Pitch Black’s bare-bones basics, explaining why a rogue fugitive with a bounty on his head seems plugged into something much bigger. The film felt bloated with wonky sci-fi mythology about elder space species, Riddick’s Furyan-race origins, and perhaps even an unlikely hidden destiny. Middle movie The Chronicles of Riddick gets a bad rap for forcing the lone-wolf ex-con character Diesel introduced in Pitch Black into grandiose new scenarios he doesn’t seem built for. RELATED: The Furyan Lives! Vin Diesel Teases ‘Really Great’ Meetings on Fourth Riddick Film Rather, it pivoted back to the basics that made the original Riddick movie - 2000’s Pitch Black - such a hit with fans in the first place. Leaner, meaner, and by far more focused on a simple cat-and-mouse story than The Chronicles of Riddick, its 2004 predecessor, Riddick didn’t do much to expand the lore-verse of our mysterious anti-hero (as the poorly-received Chronicles tried to do). Riddick (streaming now on Peacock!) was considered a return to form among respecters of the Diesel-owned science fiction IP (which he obtained in a savvy deal that saw him show up for a cameo in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in exchange for ownership of the franchise). Riddick, breathing fresh life into a saga that’s been on pause, to impatient fans’ vexation, since 2013’s Riddick. Vin Diesel and director David Twohy are deep in development on a fourth installment in the sci-fi film franchise that tracks the stealthy space exploits of Richard B.
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