Vin Diesel: RIDDICK Sequels Still Possible (Mania.com)

By:Jarrod Sarafin
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008
Source: MTV

It seems average box office returns can't keep a good Furyan warrior down. The Pitch Black spin-off The Chronicles of Riddick was the first of a planned trilogy based on the warrior played by Vin Diesel but poor box office returns in 2004 cast doubt on whether we would be seeing the character again. The film had a $105 mil budget and wound up only grossing $115.8 mil worldwide. Well, apparently, that's not stopping writer David Twohy from planning out the story for the next two sequels, reports Vin Diesel to MTV. The only question at the moment is how they go about producing the next two sequels.

"David Twohy right now is writing the scripts. The only question is whether we take a page from the 'Lord of the Rings' guys and try to shoot the two chapters at the same time. There are two more in mind," he said of Riddick, the Furyan warrior first introduced in the 2000 film "Pitch Black." "'The Chronicles of Riddick' was presented as a three part trilogy that would answer 'Pitch Black' in the same way that 'Lord of the Rings' answered 'The Hobbit.'"

Diesel has his next sci-fi adventure Babylon A.D. hitting theaters this weekend.