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Motion Comic Prequel - "Blindsided"
Had to watch it a couple times to make out all the lines. I like how they've transitioned. This is going to be dark and brutal as f#ck...
"Somewhere along the way I lost a step, got sloppy... dulled my own edge. Maybe I went and did the worst crime of all: I got civilized. So now we zero the clock. Gotta find that animal side again..."
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Since everyone is so pumped, psyched, and responsive over this, I'll keep posting updates. From director David Twohy's Blog (images wouldn't work here):
COMIC-CON DEBRIEFINGSo it was a crazy day. Which made it a fairly typical day at Com-Con.
I hit SD about 10:30 in the morning. Got an hour or so to walk the auditorium floor, and was heartened to see the comic book stands…the concept artists working away at their stalls…the smaller vendors hawking their fantasy figurines. I was last at Com-Con 13 years ago, and I was glad to see that it hadn’t been completely co-opted by the studios and networks.
Then it was time to get down to business. “H” Hall business.
Vin, Katee, and I strode into the hall before 6,500 pairs of eager eyes. Last time here, I showed clips from a small movie called PITCH BLACK, and today I was showing scenes from RIDDICK, third in the same series. It played about as well as I could’ve imagined. I’ve actually seen the movie with precious few people because I chose not to test the movie, chose not to focus-group it to death. Hey, I figure I know our audience by now. They were right here in “H” hall, eating up the new RIDDICK red-band trailer.
“H” Hall done, the three of us broke up for our individual interviews. It’s a blur now, but I do recall spending time in the Entertainment Weekly suite and with Drew McWeeney of Hitflix and with the IGN folks among many, many others. I probably did a solid seven hours of interviews and poster-signing. There comes a point when you start to tire of your own answers – the same answers which seemed fresh and inspired just hours before. Charlie Sheen once told me that, on particularly long press junkets, he just started making shit up to keep himself amused.
Well, Charlie can do that. But I hew closer to reality than Charlie does. (No huge badge of honor, that.)
Anyway, great day and mission accomplished. RIDDICK comes out September 6 in the U.S. and Canada. Try to see it in a digital IMAX theater – that’ll be the best presentation.
There's also this interview with Vin:
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Yeah, in order to make Chronicles, the first thing they had to do was drop the R rating. But with that budget look at all that they were able to do.. it's pretty spectacular visually. Which makes me wonder how they plan to do UnderVerse. They've said that it's a bit of a pricey undertaking. Honestly, maybe i should wait til i see the new film, but I'd rather they maintain the R rating.
I just hope i don't have to wait another 10 f$cking years in between films. Vin will be getting too damn old by then anyway. If they can poop out Resident Evil movies every two years then there's no reason why the Riddick series can't be wrapped up in the next 5 or 6 years. It's set up to do well at the box office: there's nothing else big coming out the same weekend or even the next weekend.
Here's a motion comic that can be watched
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/178479-watch-a-riddick-motion-comic