
How's this for teasing. While talking about the upcoming sequels to 2000's surprise genre hit, PITCH BLACK, Vin Diesel is comparing the ambition to making a LORD OF THE RINGS class epic, while director/creator David Twohy is calling the trilogy "the evil STAR WARS."
"If you're familiar with the [J.R.R.] Tolkien novels, in the same way that HOBBIT is prequel to THE LORD OF THE RINGS, PITCH BLACK is a prequel to THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK [trilogy]," Vin Diesel said in a recent interview for XXX. He also shot down rumors the next films would be a prequel to BLACK, which had Diesel's character crashing on a desert planet and fighting monsters who only come out at night.
"It's got this extensive story that David Twohy's putting together. He calls it the evil STAR WARS."