Tour Of 'Chronicles Of Riddick' Set With Vin Diesel

The sequel to the 2000 sci-fi favorite 'Pitch Black,' 'Chronicles' catches up five years later with Vin's enigmatic anti-hero Riddick, a man with a price on his head who's dodging mercenaries across the galaxy. "I knew that this was a character that had such a complex and interesting dynamic that I wanted to revisit him," Vin tells Maria. "[When I shot 'Pitch Black'] I wanted to imagine what his universe would look like, and that's what this is. We're not making a movie, we're making a universe."

Captured and imprisoned on a planet where the extreme temperatures range from arctic nights to volcanic days, Riddick partners with a young woman from his past (newcomer ALEXA DAVALOS) to escape, only to find himself confronting a group of religious zealots led by the evil Lord Marshall (COLM FEORE from "Storm of the Century"), a tyrant bent on waging a deadly crusade across the galaxy.

"What's so interesting about Riddick is that he is an anti-hero that has to struggle just to understand the purpose or relevance of heroism," says Vin. "So he travels through the universe, aloof to his heroic calling, and that's what this movie's about. It's about existing your whole life without any sense of identity and not knowing where you come from, and not knowing who you are, or why you exist. And that feels like a very relevant issue to build a mythology around."
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