'Riddick' took bumpy road to theaters
That the sound the golf cart makes each time it strikes the uneven pavement as it transports Vin Diesel across the Universal Studios backlot. He traveling from his bungalow office to a screening room where crew members have gathered to watch the third installment of the scifi series starring the 46yearold actorproducer as an extraterrestrial excon.
such a victory that this movie is going to be in theaters, he says in his signature growly tone.
Indeed, when it comes to Diesel is all too familiar with hitting bumps in the road. It took the Furious star nearly a decade (and millions of dollars in fundraising) to bring his seeinthedark antihero back to the big screen. Universal had jettisoned a possible third edition after 2004 of Riddick didn soar at the box office.
Despite the fact of Riddick and its 2000 predecessor Black, as well as a pair of video games, amassed a cult following, it seemed like Riddick would be forever lost in space.
However, Diesel remained undeterred.
started in the independent (film) world, but this was a new level of challenge for me, said Diesel.
He treated the sequel just like an indie film project, not unlike the 1990s selffunded movies and which first transformed the burly New Yorker from bouncer to actorproducer. Between filming Furious movies, he traveled to Germany with Twohy to woo enough investors to convince the studio to come back on board.
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character struck a chord, said Diesel, who points to his 46 million Facebook fans as the reason for taking several risks including almost leveraging his own house when bills couldn be paid to recover Riddick. tangible for them. I think the idea of a character that has been misread, overlooked and given up on is very fascinating to people.
The original Black, which introduced the ruthless Richard B. Riddick amid an eclectic group of spaceship crash survivors, cost $23 million and went on to earn $53 million worldwide. The followup heavily expanded on the first film spacey mythology and budget. It cost $105 million but wasn ultimately a blockbuster, bringing in a soso $115 million worldwide.
which opens Friday and leanly cost between $35 and $40 million, blends elements from both chapters, keeping the ornate look of but dispatching with its PG13 interstellar politics in favor of the Rrated terror of Black. The film strands the Furyan bad boy on a desolate planet where he hunted by dueling bands of mercenaries.
both of us, it was like going home again, said Twohy. matter what part of the world we in, whether it the Australian outback where we shot Black, or Vancouver where we filmed the second movie, or inside an old train depot in Montreal where we shot it just feels like home when we together making a Riddick movie.
With the revivals of Furious and now under his belt, Diesel feels reinvigorated about his other passion project: a trilogy in which he play Carthaginian commander Hannibal Barca, the audacious general who marched across the Alps to challenge the Roman Empire. It another bumpy venture Diesel has been working on for the better part of a decade.
But first, Diesel says he revving up for the seventh Furious, which begins shooting next month in Atlanta and Los Angeles, and Marvel of the Galaxy, in which he portray the treelike alien Groot. For the former street performer, it mark his first foray into motioncapture acting and playing a character known for delivering just one line: am Groot.
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idea of bringing that physicality to a CGI character always tantalized me, he said. strip away everything is insane. In this case, the voice plays heavily into it, too. I don know what kind of dialogue will be in it, but even if it stayed true to character, there so much one can do with am Groot.