Riddick

Without the kind of financial success expected from The Chronicles of Riddick, the Riddick franchise seemed dead. Through some negotiation and a cameo in the third Fast and Furious film, Vin Diesel acquired the rights to Riddick from Universal, and he and David Twohy scrounged up the money independently to finance this third entry in the fractured series. You could buy the conceit that Pitch Black was supposed to be akin to The Hobbit in to a Chronicles of Riddick version of The Lord of the ...