Earlier than he was racing vehicles as Dominic Toretto within the Quick & Livid world, working for the Nationwide Safety Company as Xander Cage in xXx and voicing Groot within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Vin Diesel debuted the antihero generally known as Richard B. Riddick in 2000’s Pitch Black. Whereas that was a low-budget sci-fi providing, Riddick’s adventures delved into blockbuster territory in 2004 with The Chronicles of Riddick, and that was adopted by 2013’s Riddick. Now after practically a decade of growth, it’s been introduced that Diesel is formally returning for Riddick 4, a film he as soon as teased whereas shirtless. And with this information comes the subsequent installment’s first story particulars.
Vin Diesel will reunite with director/author David Twohy, who helmed and penned all three earlier Riddick-centric motion pictures (engaged on Pitch Black’s script with Ken and Jim Wheats), for Riddick 4, which is titled Riddick: Furya. Per Deadline, the upcoming film sees Riddick returning to his homeworld, which he barely remembers and worries has been left in ruins by the Necromongers. Upon arriving on the planet, Riddick discovers different Furyans who’re “preventing for his or her existence towards a brand new enemy,” and a few of these people are extra just like our title hero than he imagined.
Along with reprising Riddick, Vin Diesel will produce Riddick: Furya by his One race Movies manufacturing firm with Samantha Vincent. Subsequent week, Rocket Science and CAA Media Finance will launch worldwide gross sales for the subsequent Riddick film on the European Movie Pageant. David Twohy, whose different credit embrace directing Timescape and writing The Fugitive and Waterworld, shared this assertion on Riddick: Furya shifting ahead:
Our legion followers have demanded it for years, and now we’re lastly able to honor their name to motion with Riddick: Furya. My collaboration with Vin and One Race has spanned 20 fruitful years, as collectively we’ve created three motion pictures, two video video games, an anime manufacturing, and movement comics for the web. This new big-screen occasion will see a return to Riddick’s homeworld, the place we lastly get to discover Riddick’s genesis.
Riddick 4 has been within the playing cards since January 2014, simply 4 months after Riddick’s launch, when Vin Diesel shared that Common Photos was interested by making one other installment. By 2016, Diesel shared that the subsequent film was titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Furya, which was shortened to Riddick: Furya by July 2019. Diesel was nonetheless teasing one other Riddick sequel to followers in December 2021, and over a 12 months later, evidently the undertaking is lastly taking the subsequent step to turning into a actuality.
This Riddick 4 information comes as two skilled chapters of Vin Diesel’s life are gearing as much as conclude. This Could’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 would be the final time we see this crew of characters collectively within the MCU, and Quick X, which comes out the identical month, would be the penultimate entry in the primary Quick & Livid movie collection, with Quick 11 anticipated to drop someday in 2024. Diesel will even be heard later this 12 months in Ark: The Animated Sequence, and whereas he’s been hooked up to do xXx 4 since 2018, it’s unclear the place issues at the moment stand on that motion film.
As quickly as another large updates on Riddick: Furya are available, we’ll move them alongside. Till then, look over the 2023 new film releases to determine what you’ll be watching in theaters or streaming later this 12 months.
