In an interview with Now Playing magazine to promote the upcoming Unrated Director's Cut DVD release of this past summer's "The Chronicles of Riddick", helmer David Twohy spoke about the possibilities of doing the further two films in the proposed trilogy featuring the Vin Diesel-played anti-hero.
"[Sequels are] still a possibility, but many eyes are watching this DVD release very closely. Remember that we were saying all along that we knew where the story goes from this point forward, but we hopefully didn’t have so much hubris to say that we were definitely making a trilogy out of this. What we were saying was, ‘We know what the macro arc is,’ and if we were fortunate enough to be successful in this one we knew where we would pick up in the next one.
We had it in our minds and there are certain setups in The Chronicles of Riddick for future films, including the Shirah character who now appears in the [director’s cut DVD], a character who did not make it into the theatrical version at all. We would talk a lot about the Underverse – this being the sort of collision of Heaven and Hell for the Necromonger empire – and what that all is, and we’d venture across it...if we had the opportunity to continue the story we would surely like to go there"
For the full interview, <a href="http://www.nowplayingmag.com/content/view/172/2/" target="_blank">click here</a>.
Thanks to 'Eric'.
