Tag: Riddick

  • Is Riddick Returning For Another Video Game?

    883_187479373

    On the heels of Riddick releasing in theaters, it seems Vin Diesel is wanting to get the character back into the video game world as well. Not only that, but he is bringing along [amazon_link id=”B001L18RIE” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay[/amazon_link] developers Starbreeze to the project.

    In a recent interview Diesel talked about another gaming adventure starring Riddick.

    “We just over the past couple of months — just this year — we assembled that team from Starbreeze that brought Escape from Butcher Bay to create the third game.”

    If you could see my face right now I would first wonder why you were looking at my face then I would realize you were because of the giant, idiotic grin across my face. Not only is Escape from Butcher Bay one of the best shooters from the Xbox era, but it is one of the best shooters ever made and if you have not ever played it then I suggest you go and correct the error.

    Excitement.

  • Weekend Box Office- September 6-8, 2013

    Riddick

    September started off on the weak side, but this is the beginning of the fall movie season and summer blockbusters are behind us. Riddick took the top spot with $18.6 million which is not a big take, though it will end up making money since Diesel funded the movie himself with the help of financial backers. It only cost $40 million to make and Universal is on the hook for marketing so we may still get another Riddick movie when all is said and done.

    1. Riddick- $18.6 million/ $18.6 million

    2. The Butler- $8.9/ $91.9

    3. Instructions not Included- $8.1/ $21.3

    4. We’re the Millers- $7.9/ $123.8

    5. Planes- $4.2/ $79.2

    6. One Direction- $4.1/ $23.9

    7. Elysium- $3.1/ $85

    8. Blue Jasmine- $2.6/ $25.4

    9. Percy Jackson- $2.5/ $59.8

    10. The World’s End- $2.3/ $21.7

     

  • Review: Riddick

    Riddick-Eyes

    It is through the pure love of the character, Richard B. Riddick, by actor Vin Diesel and writer/director David Twohy that this third film was even put to film. After 2004’s The Chronicles of Riddick crashed very hard at the box office it was easy to think that the tales of the night seeing convict were at an end. Diesel and Twohy gathered up $38 million from various backers to help fund another movie, taking Riddick back to a smaller scale single story, instead of a bloated, world-saving adventure.

    Good move, guys.

    You may or may not remember that at the end of The Chronicles of Riddick he was assuming the throne of the Necromongers, having killed the Lord Marshal. If you don’t remember, just imagine the last fight at the end of David Lynch’s Dune with better special effects and Vin Diesel killing Sting and you should be good to go. Now, as leader, Riddick wants to go searching for his lost home world of Furya. Vaako (Karl Urban, in a brief appearance), gives Riddick a heading and when he reaches the planet he is betrayed by the Necromonger guards and left for dead on the wrong planet.

    The first part of the movie is spent with Riddick doing his best Tom Hanks in Cast Away, getting back to his animal side and learning to survive in less than inviting conditions. Now where Hanks had to deal with learning to fish, make camp fires and talking to a ball with a face on it, Riddick has to reset a broken leg, domesticate a feral ocelot creature and fight against large reptilian creatures that hide in water and move across the planet with the rain.

    riddick_sidebar3

    When Riddick makes his way to an emergency beacon station and sends out a distress call, this calls two groups of mercenaries that are looking to collect on the bounty which is double if Riddick is brought back dead. This begins the Riddick fun of him beginning to take out guys one by one until they realize that they all have to work together to get off the planet as the rain comes and brings the creatures to their doorstep. Here is where it gets like Pitch Black with the game of survival and it works again because this is the Riddick character that everyone wants to see, not the destined leader of the Necromongers while saving a holy man’s family. He is a killer that occasionally does what he can for other people…provided they can help him in return.

    The cast of mercenaries is mostly “who is that” and “I have seen them somewhere” except for the inclusion of ex-wrestler and recent Guardians of the Galaxy star Dave Bautista and Battlestar Galactica star and nerd goddess Katee Sackhoff, who I will go ahead and help out the movie’s box office right now, has her first nude scene. That sound you hear is a lot of BSG fans either getting in their car to go see the movie or hitting up Google at the same time.

    Riddick is big, dumb action fun. You know, like 83% of Vin Diesel movies. The lines are eye-rolling and still illicit laughs even though you have something inside you asking “why the hell am I laughing?”. The action is good and is always a great thing to see Katee Sackhoff beat the shit out of people and that wasn’t even the movie I was paying to see. Diesel is clearly having fun playing Riddick again especially after the long wait between movies and how hard he had to work to get the movie off the ground. This is pure popcorn fare of the highest order and you will either have some fun watching Riddick chopping off heads and talking about going balls deep in someone or you will curse whoever asked you to go to the theater to see it.

    For me, I had a good time with Riddick’s return and actually would not mind another flick with the character. Just remember to keep it small.

     

     

     

     

  • Riddick Gets A New Poster

    Photo courtesy IGN
    Photo courtesy IGN

    As Fast & Furious 6 continues to rake in the money at the box office, Vin Diesel is getting ready to revive his Riddick franchise this fall. A new poster was released today for the third entry with the tagline “Survival Is His Revenge”. The film will see Riddick stranded on a desolate planet as a group of bounty hunters try to hunt him down.

    Riddick releases on September 6th. Check out the newest trailer below.

    http://youtu.be/MzZRvkOjwO4

  • New Trailer For Riddick Looks To Recapture That Pitch Black Magic

    riddick06

    2013 is turning out to be a weird year for me theatrically. As much crap as I give Vin Diesel I am more than ready for his two movies this year. Fast & Furious 6 will be out in a few weeks and this September sees the return of my favorite of his characters, Riddick.

    Yes, I am an unapologetic Riddick lover. Deal with it.

    The new trailer for Riddick really gives the movie a more Pitch Black feel than the slightly bloated The Chronicles of Riddick. There are three simple reasons why I will be seeing this beyond the gratuitous violence:

    1. Riddick

    2. Katee Sackhoff

    3. Batista (Dave Bautista to be proper)

    Riddick releases on September 6th.

    http://youtu.be/tDxDEjDMreA

  • Can’t Deny The Game Of Thrones Look With New Riddick Pic

     

    Photo courtesy screencrush.com
    Photo courtesy screencrush.com

    I will readily admit I am excited about Riddick. Despite all the crap I give Vin Diesel, I liked [amazon_link id=”B001RTCP1A” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Pitch Black[/amazon_link] and [amazon_link id=”B001RTCP10″ target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]The Chronicles of Riddick[/amazon_link]. Now this September he and director David Twohy are ready to finish their trilogy. Images have slowly been getting out on the new adventure which will see Riddick stranded on a planet being hunted by the alien inhabitants and hunters trying to collect a bounty on his head.

    The newest shot to make its way online has a decidedly Game of Thrones look to it except instead of the doomed Sean Bean on the Iron Throne we get Riddick sitting atop a throne of bones. Why I did not call it the Bone Throne should be painfully obvious to you or any woman I have gone out with.

    Riddick releases on September 6th.

  • Riddick Set To Return In September

    Vin Diesel’s Riddick is now set to return to theaters next year. The third film in the series will release on September 6, 2013 in theaters and IMAX.

    The movie has been a labor of love for Diesel and director David Twohy, who directed Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick, who have been trying to get the movie made since 2006.

    A plot synopsis has the film having a very different tone than The Chronicles of Riddick sounding more like Pitch Black.

    “The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless.  Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered.  The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty.

    The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal.  With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won’t leave the planet without Riddick’s head as their trophy.”

    Along with Diesel, Karl Urban is returning as Vaako and will be joined by Katee Sackhoff and Dave Bautista.