Vin Diesel and filmmaker David Twohy are reuniting for “Riddick: Furya,” the fourth installment in the sci-fi action series that helped launch Vin Diesel’s film career with 2000’s “Pitch Black”.
Worldwide sales on the title will kick off at next week’s European Film Market and new details about the project have been released in the lead-up to that event.
In the new film, Riddick finally returns to his home world – a place he barely remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins by the Necromongers.
There he finds other Furyans fighting for their existence against a new enemy. And some of these Furyans are more like Riddick than he could have ever imagined.
Twohy will direct from his own script whilst Diesel will star and produce alongside Samantha Vincent. Twohy says in a statement:
“Our legion fans have demanded it for years, and now we’re finally ready to honor their call-to-action with ‘Riddick: Furya’. My collaboration with Vin and One Race has spanned twenty fruitful years, as together we’ve created three movies, two video games, an anime production, and motion comics. This new big-screen event will see a return to Riddick’s homeworld, where we finally get to explore Riddick’s genesis.”
Diesel will next be seen in “Fast X” and “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.3” this Summer along with “ARK: The Animated Series”.
Twohy also wrote and directed the three previous Riddick films along with Charlie Sheen-led alien invasion tale “The Arrival,” supernatural submarine tale “Below” and sexy genre thriller “A Perfect Getaway” starring Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich and Chris Hemsworth.
Source: Deadline
