Twohy Says 'Pitch Black 2' Is 'Star Wars' Evil Twin

So I wrote a treatment for a sequel two years ago, and it was deemed too big, too rich of a follow-up. Well, that was then -- and Vin is now. We can think “too big.” So we’re using that treatment as a matrix, layering in new characters and new dimensions as we create a whole multi-verse that will carry us through two, possibly three more films. It’s a multi-verse full of competing agendas and countervailing strengths. Riddick is but one of those strengths, and he’ll tap into primal powers he didn’t know he had, evolving into something more powerful. Something even darker.

To bring it into focus for the studio, I pitched a franchise that would be “the evil twin of ‘Star Wars’.” And they got it immediately. Instead of cold technology on parade, “Chronicles” will be a hot-blooded affair that marches to the tune of corruption, defiance, chaos. It won’t be so much a horror film (as some thought “Pitch Black” to be) as a dark action-adventure movie with our own brand of epic mythology.

Oh, did I mention "dark"?

One of the things we saw, early on, was a parallel to the “Terminator” series: The audience actually liked the antagonist by the end of the first movie. Knowing this, Cameron smartly changed the dynamic for the sequel, pitting Arnold against the T-1000, overmatching him so that the audience could root for him. Well, point taken: We will overmatch Riddick in all our follow-up movies. He has to have Big Foes, and we’ve got them. Plenty of ‘em.

David Twohy