Pitch Black
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Short description
A transport ship is struck by debris and crashes on a remote planet far off the usual routes. The crew is largely lost, leaving a small group of passengers to survive in a barren landscape scorched by three suns. Among the stranded is Richard B. Riddick, a dangerous criminal being moved to prison, who slips his restraints. The survivors also have to reckon with the bounty hunter escorting him and with traces of an earlier human expedition that hint at something hostile living beneath the surface. When an eclipse plunges the planet into darkness, creatures that hunt in the black emerge, and the group must keep to the light if they are to last the night.
David Twohy directed and co-wrote the film with Jim Wheat and Ken Wheat, following his earlier features Timescape and The Arrival. Vin Diesel plays Riddick, with Radha Mitchell as pilot Carolyn Fry, Cole Hauser as the hunter Johns, Keith David as the imam Abu al-Walid, Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Paris and Claudia Black as Shazza. Made for around 23 million dollars, it took roughly 53 million worldwide, a solid return that established a character and world Twohy and Diesel would revisit in later films.
On IMDb it holds a 7 from about 263,000 votes, and on TMDB a 6.9 from around 5,000 votes. A critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from 108 reviews places it close to the audience scores, indicating a genre film that drew comparable, generally favorable responses from both camps.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the original script, Riddick was a woman.
- A sequel titled "The Chronicles of Riddick" (2004) was also directed by David Twohy. In the same year, a short anime film, "The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury" (2004), was released. "Dark Fury" served as a bridge between "Pitch Black" and "The Chronicles of Riddick."
- The contact lenses Vin Diesel wore during filming were non-corrective. They couldn't be removed after the first day of shooting. As a result, an optician had to be sent for from the nearest town, which was three hours away from the shooting location.
- Initially, Richard Riddick was supposed to die in the film's finale, but it was then decided to 'kill off' Carolyn Fry in order to allow for a sequel. The creators doubted that Carolyn's character would be as appealing as Riddick's.
- The scenes in the desert were filmed in the same locations as those from the film "Mad Max" (1979).
- An editor's cut of the film released a year later was 3 minutes longer than the original.
- Street filming took place at temperatures below 10 degrees, so the actors warmed themselves near the lighting lamps during breaks between takes.
- The spaceship is called Hunter/Gratzner—the same name as the special effects company that designed and built the model.
- The film was shot entirely in Australia.
- When Riddick pulled the waterproof tarpaulin from one of the buildings, revealing Jack, Vin Diesel strained a muscle due to the rope tied on the other side.
- When Carolin sees Jones injecting drugs into his eye, she refers to it as "hype." This slang term was also used in the 1940s in relation to drug users (primarily heroin addicts).
- The scene where Jones injects drugs into his eye was Cole Hauser's idea.
- One of the episodes shows cargo bays being ejected overboard before the crash; one of the bays is numbered '2E', a reference to director David Twohy's name by the special effects team.
- The primary sample that Carolyn Fry investigates is: 76875/87/656.
- Filming of the movie took 60 days.
- The weapon used by Jones is an Armscor M30R6 shotgun, modified to appear futuristic.
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