Chronicles of Riddick

the Chronicles of Riddick ( The Chronicles off Riddick ) is an American film carried out by David Twohy, left in 2004. It is the second shutter of the saga the Chronicles of Riddick .

It is about the chronological continuation Pitch Black (2000). The cartoon film Chronicles of Riddick: Dark fury (2005) is chronologically located between Pitch Black and the Chronicles of Riddick , and acted as transition between the departure from “planet sinks” M6-117 and the arrival of Riddick on UV 6.

Synopsis

the Chronicles of Riddick are focused on the character of Richard B. Riddick, the main character of Pitch Black . The Chronicles start with a hunting for the man on cold planet UV 6. Following the events of Pitch Black , Riddick had to be exiled during five years on this planet, to protect his/her friends Imam and Jack (survivors of the M6-117 planet). But an bargain hunter, named Toombs, finds his trace on UV 6, and tries to capture it against an important reward. This attempt fails, since Riddick manages to seize the vessel of Toombs, and uses it to flee towards Helion Precedes, where Imam lives. In certain versions, Riddick is haunted by the visions of a character named Shira, explaining to him why he is the last representative of a race of warriors known under the name of Furyons.

When Riddick reaches Helion Precedes and lands in the Islamic district of the Mecque News, he asks Imam to be explained: why bargain hunters were sent to its cases, and why Jack is absent. Imam acknowledges that Jack had left to its research, a few years ago, and that it was sent in the prison of Crematoria. Imam continues by presenting Aereon to Riddick, elementary of the air, which made so that Riddick returns on Helion. Aereon explains to him why it is the key of a prophecy, according to which solitary Furyon would come one day to defy an invincible force malfaisante and to bring balance to the universe. Aereon reveals to him that a race, known under the name of Necromonger , corresponds to the description of prophecy. Following this revelation, the army of the Necromongers lance an attack against Helion Precedes and destroys defenses of planet in one night. Imam is killed in the attack. Riddick finds then its murderer - one of the best combatants of the Necromongers - and kills it by recovering a knife already placed in the back of the soldier, and in planting to him in the chest. Lord Marshall (the supreme leader of the army Necromonger , the only person has to be returned alive of Underverse) is impressed by Riddick, and proposes to him to come on board its vessel. This one accepts, and learns philosophy from the Necromongers : “what you take belongs”, and remembers the massacred billion Furyons thirty years ago by these same Necromongers , under the command of the Lord. Riddick is then analyzed, and Lord Marshall probably realizes that it is about Furyon, that announced by prophecy. It orders with its soldiers to eliminate it, but Riddick manages to flee, before being made recapture by the Toombs bargain hunter.

Sent on Crematoria by Toombs, Riddick meets there Jack, which is made call from now on Kyra. This one reproaches him for having given up it with Imam with the Mecque News, but they end up being reconciled. Riddick and Kyra develop a plan to escape. They escape with other prisoners, and are constrained to engage a race towards the hangar with vessels. Indeed, the surface of Crematoria is exposed the day with the intense luminous rays of close star, and surface burns literally under heat (reaching several hundreds of degrees). Obliged to choose a very fast step of race in order to be able to outdistance the first rays of the day which rises, they manage to reach the hangar at the same time as the mercenaries, who move in the old network of underground tunnels. In the hangar, the Necromonger Vaako attacks Riddick and takes Kyra as an hostage. Riddick in spite of a fierce combat is put at ground, disappears and starts to burn under the heat of the first rays. It is saved by a Necromonger , the Purifier, which puts it at the shelter and reveals to him before committing suicide, to be old Furyon.

Riddick takes the control of the vessel of Toombs and puts the course towards Helion Precedes, to save Kyra. It arrives unfortunately too late: Kyra has just undergone a conversion/washing of brain, and embraces from now on the religion Necromonger . Riddick fights the Lord Marshall on the other hand but however, it does not manage to resist the capacities of the Lord, able to withdraw the heart of the body of its adversaries and to send its own heart to run up against it, before transporting its body elsewhere, to avoid the responses. Riddick does not manage to be defended and is quickly overcome. Whereas it is about to be carried out, Kyra wounds the Lord seriously - either because it simulated its conversion, or because the presence of Riddick revived its reason. Of rage, Lord Marshall projects Kyra on a spade of the throne, wounding it mortally. At this point in time Vaako is seized of a large halberd, with an aim of completing the Lord and of taking his place. Whereas it cuts down the weapon on the Lord, this one is transported towards the weapon nearest, but Riddick is faster and manages to kill it as soon as it reappears in front of him, out of a stab in the cranium (the same knife that it had gained of the champion Necromonger ). Riddick turns over at Kyra, which always reveals to him to have been with him (when Riddick had asked him the question after its conversion, it had not given an answer). She dies then in her arms. Once the finished combat, the Necromongers kneel in front of him, which sat down on the throne of the Lord, the heart broken by the death of the only person who counted for him. Riddick becomes the new Lord Marshall of the empire Necromonger . The film finishes on the departure of the vessels Necromonger of the Mecque News. The future of the Necromongers and Riddick is left fuzzy.

Data sheet

  • Title: Chronicles of Riddick

  • original Title: The Chronicles off Riddick
  • Realization: David Twohy
  • Scenario: David Twohy
  • Production: Camille Brown, Vin Diesel, Scott Kroopf, Wendy Williams, Ted Field, David Womark and George Zakk
  • Production company: Universal Pictures
  • Budget: 110 million dollars
  • Music: Graeme Revell, Dominik To raise and Tim Simonec
  • Photography: Hugh Johnson
  • Assembly: Tracy Adams, Martin Hunter and Refusals Virkler
  • Decorations: Holger Large
  • Country of origin: the United States
  • Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - SDR/Dolby DIGITAL/SDDS - 35 mm
  • Kind: Science fiction, action
  • Lasted: 119 minutes/135 minutes (Director' S cut)
  • Comings out date: June 3rd 2004 (first, the United States), June 11th 2004 (the United States), August 18th 2004 (Belgium, France)

Comment

Four years after Pitch Black , David Twohy signs the continuation of it with the Chroniques of Riddick , always with Vin Diesel. The film is this time completely centered on the character of Riddick, which was not the case of Pitch Black , which was a film much more choral. Riddick almost appears this time at the beginning of film, and one practically does not lose it sight throughout all measuring.

This continuation, which occurs several years after first film, also takes again the character of Imam and that of Jack, the young real tomboy in Pitch Black (idolâtre of Riddick).

the Chronicles of Riddick are very different from Pitch Black in more than one way:

  • the places of the action are varied much (several planets are visited),
  • the action and the intrigue is this time on a galactic scale, the stakes being the survival of several planets,
  • the film fits more in one vein of space-opera than in a vein of SF/horrifique,
  • the film is thus more spectacular, and the more important budget.

Stylistiquement, the film is also very different, in particular:

  • the colors are varied and contrasted (one is more in the over-exposure, then in the night of first film),
  • the setting in scene is fuller to follow the vaster stakes of the history.

Nevertheless the central part of the film, perhaps the most succeeded, which occurs on the planet prison, finds a little the spirit of Pitch Black (tightening of the action in the prison universe, tension, concept of escape).

One can note a rather obvious filiation with the character of Snake Plissken, that John Carpenter put in scene in New York 1997 and Los Angeles 2013 : even black humor, even anti-heroism, even faculty to be in the middle of intrigues or adventures which they did not wish, even research of peace and even faculty to be killed without state of heart if it is needed. Riddick and Plissken are two characters disillusioned, charismatic and full with resources.

The end of film being rather open, it will be interesting to see whether David Twohy will continue to explore the facets of the character of Riddick.

Anecdotes

Vin Diesel was named with the Razzie Awards 2004 as a worse actor of the year for his interpretation in this film.

Distribution

Around film

See also

See too

External bonds

  • http://www.thechroniclesofriddick.com/

  • Chronicles of Riddick on Internet Movie Database

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