You know those Moebius stories, or the Meta-Baron saga that were really cool as long as you didn't ask too many questions. Don't try to make the world actually hang together. Just enjoy the over-the-top melodrama of the thing.

Pitch Black was better, but that's because Riddick was just a character in it.

I think Riddick's future will depend a lot on success of Babylon A.D.

Chronicles was good, but the better prison movie in the middle made the overall storyline a bit disjointed. In any event, I'm all for more Riddick flix and bring back Toombs!

They gotta bring Alex back though. Otherwise any sequels will be a bust...

I've been dubious ever since Peter Jackson made that april fools crack about making Son of Kong and mentioned using the money that was put aside for Riddick 2 and 3, which was now up for grabs. I think the project has been sinking since then.

Let me predict some: Aqualon - the water planet! Desertia - the sand planet! The Barbanoids - a race of savage warriors who inhabit Desertia's only part that has forests... and is called Woodelia!

But, for some reason, I have a feeling that instead it will be set on the small, dull and dusty planet of Lowbudgia, in Vin's adapted hometown of Nocareera.

"Talking to AMC, French import Mathieu Kassovitz ripped apart his own movie. "I'm very unhappy with the film," he admits. However, he's not taking any of the blame. He says, "I never had a chance to do one scene the way it was written or the way I wanted it to be. The script wasn't respected. Bad producers, bad partners, it was a terrible experience." The result was a film which he categorizes as "pure violence and stupidity." Kassovitz wanted to say something substantive with the film, but instead he ended up with a movie that plays "like a bad episode of 24."

As for Riddick, I loved Pitch Black and thought Chronicles was watchable, and would be quite happy to see more, but I think a scale-down might be a good thing-as long as it's a scale-down that is known from the script level.

One of the few times I honestly felt ripped off after leaving the theatres. NO MORE!!!

Everything with Riddick and the bounty hunters and Kyra and Crematoria worked fine. And while toning Riddick down was silly, they didnt make much of his percieved conversion at the end of Pitch Black. I don't mean a religious conversion, I mean man rejoining the humn race. They could have built that sacrifice made for him on the planet a searing iron burning it's way through his heart, and still kept a hard edged bad ass. As it was, we got Riddick the comic book. Most of you might have been happy with that, but the pieces were there for a superior film to Pitch Black, but we got an inferior one. Still, Im up for a sequel.

Awful. The rest is bad ass.

And my guess is that Riddick will take the body of Kyra to the underverse, in hopes of reviving her.

I actually watched it sober and have to say they could explore the story further as Riddick struggles with burden of leadership.

I would check that out.

It also was fun to watch Riddick struggle with the fact that he actually started to give a shit about the others and needed to help them.

The movie was a huge departure from Pitch Black and that, along with the PG-13 rating, probably killed it at the theater as the base audience felt like they were no longer in the same universe.

Personally, I don't want to see any Necromongers in the new film. Let's have Riddick dissolve their following, pronounce the Lord Marshall a liar, and then head out himself, perhaps with a crew to find the Underverse. Most importantly, it should involve Riddick having a fresh adventure that is more sci-fi based.

Yes, Riddick as a leader of a kingdom would be contrary to his character from Pitch Black, but I would like to see him have to make the decision.

You know a part of his selfish side woould like the pampering and power, but his true 'animal' side (Like when he pulled a Crocidile Dundee on that prison poodle) would be a very strong thing to keep bottled up.

But those that know me also know that I would like some creatures as the villians in the next.

Maybe an evolution of the creatures from Pitch Black as they leave the other planet to look for darkness.

Also have one of them larger, a superboss of the rest that is smarter.

So, I expected to see a changed Riddick, not a pansy, but a man who knows he is different and is dangerous in a new way, to a diff group of people.

But COR's problem is they only sort of reflected this change, and didn't make it much of a grappling point. Also, I thought there would be more struggle against the change in Riddick, and the false rebirth the Necros are trying to sell. Instead, it all seemed muddled, thematically speaking, and Riddick came off as less of a hard edged character and more of a comic book-esque hero. I didn't hate that, but felt that the meandering is what hurt the film.

Also, the script wasnt half as good as the original.

Yes, I absolutely believe in God, and I absolutely hate the f---er."

Another article on Comingsoon.net written on March 11, 2005 reports that Vin Diesel states that Chronicles 2 was to deal with The Underverse, while Chronicles 3 was to conclude the series with a return to Furya.

An article dated November 10, 2007 on countingdown.com, further indicates that a sequel may be in works - "We're talking about it". David Twohy indicates however that it "probably won't be a Universal movie and probably will be an independent movie" seeing a much smaller budget.

After Pitch Black you saw that despite having the role of leader, he was basically alone again (which was confirmed in Riddick as he had lost touch with his passengers).

And yes, I'm harping on the creature bit, but what I liked about Pitch Black was despite him being human, deep down he was an animal just like the dark dwellers.

That primal instict so close to the surface would seem to me a sort of tragic route for requiring a solo future, not one as a leader entrenched in society.

I think someone above mentioned what if the Underverse is populated by monsters similar to those on the planet in PB.

Sort of like a queen xenomorph, but even smarter.