The story of Riddick is continuing officially.
Vin Diesel is going to start making the fourth movie in the the “Riddick” series, “Riddick: Furya,” during August. The film will be filmed in Germany, Spain, and the U.K. It will bring Diesel back together with David Twohy, who will once again write and direct.
The official synopsis for the new film says: “Riddick finally comes back to his home world, a place he barely remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins. But there he finds other Furyans fighting for their survival against a new monster. And some of these Furyans are more like Riddick than he could have ever imagined.”
Diesel first acted as Riddick, an escaped prisoner who changed his eyes to see in the dark, in 2000’s excellent “Pitch Black.” Although it was not a big financial hit — $53 million on a $23 million budget — this was the time when DVD sales could create a possible film series. So, in 2004, “The Chronicles of Riddick,” a much larger, much sillier movie was released. It had a budget of over $100 million and was seen as a box office letdown.
When Diesel appeared for a very brief cameo in “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” part of his agreement was that Universal would give him back the character rights. And in 2013, nearly 10 years since his last appearance as Riddick, Diesel and Twohy released “Riddick.” Now, astonishingly, there will be a fourth film more than 10 years since that last Riddick entry (the franchise also includes three video games and an animated short film, “Dark Fury”).
Diesel will act and produce under his One Race Films company alongside sister Samantha Vincent. Thorsten Schumacher for Rocket Science and Lars Sylvest for Thank You Studios will also produce along with Joe Neurauter.
Rocket Science handled the international sales rights and has completed worldwide cornerstone pre-sales to the U.K. (yet to be announced), France (Metropolitan), Germany (Leonine), Spain and Latin America (Sun), Benelux (The Searchers), Poland (Kinoswiat), Canada (Elevation), Scandinavia (Scanbox), Portugal (Lusomundo), Switzerland (Ascot Elite), South Africa (Empire), Greece (Femeway), Middle East (Front Row), CIS and Baltic States (Volga), Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech/Slovak, Republic Former Yugoslavia (ProRom) and Thailand (Sahamongkhol). CAA Media Finance is representing the North American rights.
A “Riddick” TV series is also being created.
