Imagine a movie where Khan from Star Trek is trapped on Seti Alpha VI and Jabba the Hutt puts a bounty on his head and sends several mercenaries to track him down. Now imagine this takes place in Jurassic Park and Ridley Scott’s aliens invade. Oh, and Battlestar Galactica’s Kara Thrace is one of the bounty hunters. And better yet, Khan is played by Vin Diesel.
Imagine no further. Just check out the new trailer to the latest installment in the Chronicles of Riddick, titled Riddick:
The 2000 sci-fi movie Pitch Black alone was a solid thriller, considering it was starring a relatively unknown new action star, Vin Diesel. A dark battle for survival with marooned space travelers on a desert planet, Diesel’s equally dry voice and cool demeanor boosted him into lead roles in The Fast and the Furious series and the XXX series. Pitch Black featured Diesel as a silver eyed mercenary who has the rare ability in this new sci-fi world to see clearly in the dark, along with Red Widow star Radha Mitchell and They Live co-star Keith David.
Four years later Diesel brought Riddick back in an animated film, Dark Fury, and to the big screen again in The Chronicles of Riddick, an amped up and bigger budget film co-starring Judi Dench (Skyfall, As Time Goes By) and Karl Urban (Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Judge Dredd). Like Road Warrior took the original 1979 movie Mad Max into new territory, so went The Chronicles of Riddick, with epic Flash Gordon-inspired sets and Lord of the Rings-quality costumes. So will the September release of Vin Diesel’s fourth film entry in the Riddick franchise be a Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome blockbuster?
Diesel released the first teaser from the new movie this week on his Facebook page. It’s definitely a teaser–pretty brief–but you definitely get a vibe this will have a lot of action and suspense. Check out the first preview of Riddick:
