The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury is a 2004 animated action film that continues the story of Richard B. Riddick. Picking up after the events of Pitch Black, Riddick, the young Jack and the holy man Imam are captured by a crew of bounty hunters and taken aboard a spacecraft commanded by Antonia Chillingsworth. A collector with a macabre interest in criminals, she intends to add Riddick to her gallery of frozen captives, forcing him and his companions to fight their way through her mercenaries and the ship's hostile creatures.

Directed by Peter Chung, the film sits between his work on The Animatrix and Matriculated in 2003 and Firebreather in 2010. Brett Matthews wrote the screenplay, and Vin Diesel reprises his live-action role in voice form, joined by Rhiana Griffith as Jack, Keith David as Imam and Tress MacNeille as Chillingsworth. Produced by Universal's animation units, the short runs 34 minutes.

Its ratings are modest but solid: on IMDb it holds 6.5 out of 10 from around 13,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 6.1 from roughly 360 votes. The larger IMDb sample and slightly higher average suggest a reasonably favorable response from viewers who sought out this bridge between the live-action Riddick features, while the smaller TMDB group rates it a touch lower.