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Welcome to Pitcher Blacker, a fansite intended as a resource for anyone interested in anything to do with the Pitch Black universe, which includes its sequels and spinoffs: Riddick 3, The Chronicles of Riddick, Dark Fury, Escape from Butcher Bay, and Assault on Dark Athena. All feedback is welcome: Email.
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HELLO WORLD
Still too busy to update and the world of RIDDICK 3 has been totally silent. I mostly wanted to get a post up so that I had at least *one* in the month of August, heh. Anyway, I may be pulling an all-nighter to catch up with Real Life stuff and if so I'll try to put up at least some of this exclusive TCOR media I've been sitting on.
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More TCOR concept art
I'm not dead, I swear, and I even have some great exclusive stuff to post. It's just the same, busy story.
In the meantime, here's something: i09 spotted that Tim Flattery has some cool TCOR concept renders up on his site, of the undercutter Merc ship (wonder if this same design will be used in RIDDICK 3 ooooh spoiler!) and also the handheld Conquest icon staff.
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TCOR concept art
I'm a big concept art fan, so even though TCOR is a million years old at this point, if I find any art from it I haven't seen then I'm going to post it anyway.
My latest score is from Anthony Francisco's personal site. I've actually posted some stuff of his before, but he put up a post with seven concept sketches from the Chronicles of Riddick that include a handful of new ones. The bottom one of the Lensors is badass.
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RIDDICK 3 - first promo video, also 2011
Update 2: Thanks to Bilal for finding another place that has the video.
Update: The video got pulled from YouTube and I can't find it anywhere. And because I'm a gigantic lameass, I didn't do screen caps. You can see a few at io9.
Thanks to SonOfTheDark for letting me know that Vin broadcast the first promotional clip for the next Riddick movie. You can see it here on YouTube. Note that this video contains spoilers for what I consider fairly important story points (I've read the October 2009 script draft) and has concept art for some of these spoilers.
Now obviously everyone is off watching this ten minute video, but if for some reason you're not then here's a description of the video elements along with some of my thoughts.
- The video starts with Vin standing in front of a video screen where the actual clip is being projected. The quality of the YouTube video is pretty low: this whole shebang was broadcast as part of one of his LiveStream events.
- The rest of the video is clips of PITCH BLACK, then TCOR, then the two games, interspersed with some of his promotional interviews from the TCOR website. Then it moves into a video of David Twohy introducing the new film, and concept art from the new film flashes behind him while he discusses it.
- Vin calls this next movie "the next Chronicles of Riddick."
- The title cards just call it RIDDICK (no "3") and give it a 2011 date.
- It appears to still be a Universal film (back in the day Twohy suggested a third film probably wouldn't be Universal, so thanks Uni!).
- The concept art shows Riddick, creatures, other characters, ships, and world elements.
Here are a few interesting quotes from Twohy:
"a more visceral kind of film-making, back to a single containing world, back to an R rating"
"Riddick as outcast, as outlaw."
"the fiercest creature on this planet"
"settling a blood fued with one merc"
As I said, I've read last year's version of this script (this video shows concept art of "alien artifacts" which I think is a script element that has been added since 2009), and I still haven't decided how spoilery my coverage via PitcherBlacker should be (email me if you have a preference). But having said that, the artwork looks great and I really loved the script. I loved how the script is R, it's Twohy with his big imagination going to town, it's got cool monsters, it's got cool humans, it's smaller scale but still has a reel that is very CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK and then lots more reels that are full-on PITCH BLACK.
So there's no two ways about it... this video got me pumped.
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RIDDICK 3 - first concept art
Sweet... the first bit of RIDDICK 3 (I refuse to ever again refer to this film as 'Dead Man Stalking') concept art, released by whomever is running Vin's Facebook page. Thanks to Stephen for giving me the heads up.
Here's the full quote from the post:
Early Riddick concept art... first frame of a 2D Motion Choreography Study.
Grrrr...
The Furian... left for dead...
p.s. Being involved in the various preproduction engines, I am afforded an education that is priceless. I have always been a fan of internships as a way of education. When Steven Spielberg hired me for 'Rya...n, the running joke was, that I would have come to set to just get him coffee... haha, he didn't have to write a role for me - it was an amazingly educational experience.
This is pretty sweet, since the signature is Patrick Tatopoulos... a long-time conceptual genius who has turned to directing films as well.
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Riddick movie to be called "Dead Man Stalking"
I've got a bunch of stuff I could post (concept art, script details, etc) but having discovered that the next Riddick movie has the subtitle "Dead Man Stalking" I believe it's going to be a struggle to find the will to continue. I mean, during the time leading up to TCOR it was at least many months before the "Necromonger" bomb, but this... this is like right out of the gate.
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Someone has seen the script
Not going to say where, but I spotted the following comments out there somewhere and they sound optimistic:
So, silly Furya interludes aside, I had fun with the script. It's a helluva lot closer to Pitch Black than CoR.
Aliens are there, but it's pretty much all about bounty hunters vs. Riddick. Just know that a ot of the world-building mumbo jumbo is gone and it's back to Riddick being something of a total bad-ass
Sounds good to me.
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Wut
From Hollywood Reporter:
left for dead on a barren alien planet, dealing with"trisons" (three-legged bisons) and "mud demons." He must then contend with two squads of bounty hunters, one of which ride rockets called jetcycle
Wut
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Twohy on the third movie
Still trying to remember how to do all this... ten months was a long time. Anyway, I sent Twohy a congratulations email and got this back:
Yeah, looks like we have a nice head of steam going...
Now, a tricksy guy looking to promote his movie development might say that and it could mean anything, but I choose to interpret it as totally positive; concept art crew working away! script polished! storyboards almost done! etc etc. Who knows, but a "nice head of steam" is a nice change of pace from the last (many) years.
Links updated
Well, a bunch of links changed during the hiatus, most notably Riddickstyle's. So I updated most everything here.
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HOLY CRAP - Third Riddick Movie Greenlit!!
Well, there it is. Spotted on CHUD that an article went up on Variety which revealed this pretty damn amazing piece of news. Here's an interesting bit:
Plot details are being kept under wraps. But insiders say the third outing will hew closer in tone to the cult hit "Pitch Black" and will focus on the character of Riddick as opposed to the universe he inhabits, which was the case with the critically panned "Chronicles of Riddick."
I'll be reviving PitcherBlacker.com for this. Sorry to everyone that I disappeared... more on that later. Congrats to Vin and Twohy.
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