Pitch Black is one of my favorite guilty-pleasure Sci-Fi flicks, mostly buoyed by Vin Diesel’s performance. The follow-up (hardly a sequel since there’s little story connection) is due out next year. Check out the trailer now
For the non-Flashphobic, you can check out the official site for more story details.
Surprisingly Interesting
I wasn’t expecting much, but that trailer has me interested to at least keep an eye out for more details.
Pitch Black is probably my biggest love-hate film experience of all time. I loved everything up until the eclipse; the light filters, the panning shots, the sun moving through the rings, even the characters. Then they killed Our Raven Haired Goddess (her casting being my only reason for seeing the movie in the first place), and the film just wasn’t the same. She would have made a better heroine than the whiny pilot girl. I liked it, of course, but that single act of heresy is a stain upon what would have been something in my top-10 favorite movies list.
Prequel to Pitch Black?
When I saw the trailer, it seemed like it could be a prequel to Pitch Black. The events leading up to his situation in Pitch Black. Could that be the case? Chronicles usually means it’s somehow historical in nature. That’s just my guess.
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I’ll have to see why this article was posted without a title. Weird. Anyway, it does have a title now. :)
Buckaroo Riddick in the Ninth-1/2 Dimension?
Is it just me, or does this look like this is set in an entirely different universe from the first film?
The ships, people, and backstory of Pitch Black were all decidedly non-fanciful and un-alien. Everything seemed to be a natural extension of modern Earth culture. Also, with people travelling long distances on an unescorted and (fatally) unarmored frieghter, it was obvious that there wasn’t much to be feared “out there” besides space-dust.
Everything in this trailer is just the opposite. You’ve got humanity being threatened by powerful baddies with an utterly alien culture. All the ships, clothing, etc. are outlandish (except for Riddick, who sticks out like a sore thumb). The existence of a separate, bizarre civilization like this implies either alien influence or a long span of time in which even mainstream cultural drift should have eradicated a lot of the commonalities with our time period.
I just hope they haven’t taken one good character and ruined it by plopping him down in the middle of a totally different type of movie…
I’m intrigued, just by Twohy’s description…
“the evil Star Wars”. But the trailer, at least to me, screams _low-budget_. The armor looks plastic, the effects don’t look much better than B5, and the sets look like sets. I really hope it rocks. I really do. But it looks like they’re going to be limited by the budget. Anyone know what it is? (of course, with my luck it’ll turn out to be 200 mill or something)
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Looks pretty cool. I enjoyed Diesel in Pitch Black as well, I don’t think he’ll dissapoint :D. The prequel theory is a good one.
Warhammer 40k?
Did anyone else think that this looks a helluva lot like the Warhammer 40k world?
WH40k is a long-standing sci-fi miniatures wargaming setting by Games Workshop, for those not as geeky as I am.
And I couldn’t quite follow the voiceover of Dame Judi Dench when she named the one faction — Necromongers?. Interestingly enough, Games Workshop published another dark-future sci-fi miniatures game called Necromunda.
Hmmm…
Re: Warhammer 40k?
My God! Have the movie studios learned nothing from the White Wolf vs. Underworld fiasco?
The trailer looked cheesy
I liked Pitch Black… and I think Vin Diesel is a pretty decent guy for playing these types of roles… but it STILL looked like a renter.
Not a prequel…
This is actually set five years after the events of Pitch Black, and I also agree that it looks like an entirely different universe. It doesn’t look like they will be tying it in to Pitch Black in any way, but it does look kind of interesting.