The first script review for David Twohy‘s forthcoming Pitch Black sequel, starring Vin Diesel has appeared online over at Coming Attractions. Their script review also includes the working title, The Chronicles of Riddick: Dead Man Stalking. While we’re not sure if the working title will stick, we preferred the simplistic RIDDICK that Diesel has been using to refer to the film thus far.
We have pulled a few choice quotes from the script review that you can see below, or you can head over to CA to read the entire thing.
This first quote seems to refer to the concept art that Diesel released just a few days ago.
“…when we see Riddick at the beginning of Dead Man Stalking he’s a bloody battered mess, crawling for his life on the baked floor of an alien world. The predators native to this planet are circling in and waiting for death to come so they can feed at Riddick’s corpse — but he won’t let them. Riddick realizes here that he’s got to let what happened to him in Pitch Black and Chronicles go if he’s to survive the next ten seconds, let alone get off this forsaken pit of hell.”
“Free from the constraints of delivering a PG-13 movie, the dialogue in Dead Man Stalking is more suited to a film like Training Day; the mercs we meet are hard living people, not those washout fakeout space mercs from a film like Alien Resurrection.”
“The Road Warrior to Pitch Black’s Mad Max; a stripped-down, hard-edge actioner that just happens to take place on a world where there’s three moons and mud demons and trisons and two shipfuls of mercs hunting down the galaxy’s most wanted man.”
“There’s one more thing that I’m going to say about this third appearance of Riddick, and it’s that we truly get to see how scary smart he is when hunting human prey… Twohy sets up several scenes which shows us how crafty and deadly Riddick is at the top of his game, and to the mercs. When fitted to the unrestrained language and action rating level, this is why Dead Man Stalking has potential to be the setting stone for any follow-up sequels.”
