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<blockquote data-quote="Kai Lord" data-source="post: 568617" data-attributes="member: 3570"><p>From a Vin Diesel interview posted on DVDFILE.com <a href="http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/in_the_round/xxx/diesel_2.html" target="_blank">http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/in_the_round/xxx/diesel_2.html</a></p><p></p><p><strong>You've already signed on to do the sequel to both XXX and Pitch Black, despite having turned down Fast & the Furious 2. Are you generally wary of sequels, or are you excited by them?</strong></p><p></p><p>Not a whole lot, which is why I turned down the The Fast and the Furious sequel. But with the Riddick character, the reason why I'm doing Chronicles of Riddick next is because I wanted to try to find a way to create a modern day mythology in a trilogy form, not unlike Lord of the Rings, but something more futuristic and more contemporary. </p><p></p><p>I am excited about The Two Towers. I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of fantasy, which is why I've taken a fantasy-like approach to Riddick. It would have been so easy just to do a sequel to Pitch Black and go to another planet and fight other creatures. And that's actual the sequel scripts that were written at first. And that wasn't interesting at all to me. </p><p>But what was interesting was taking a Tolkien-like mythological approach to the character and actually creating a trilogy </p><p></p><p><strong>How much input do you have in the Pitch Black sequel?</strong></p><p></p><p>Well, story wise, I have a lot of input. Because, you know, I was talking about doing a sequel for a long time. A couple of scripts were even written by different writers. But I needed to go back to David Twohy, because he was the one that was most willing to really think outside of the box, and come up with the idea of creating a trilogy out of a character in a film that's really kind of a cult film. It is extremely daring, as you can imagine. But David had the belief in the concept, the belief that this could be a modern-day mythology, and was able to run with it. And I think David brings the Star Trek element, and I bring the Dungeons & Dragons element. So we're covered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kai Lord, post: 568617, member: 3570"] From a Vin Diesel interview posted on DVDFILE.com [url]http://www.dvdfile.com/news/special_report/in_the_round/xxx/diesel_2.html[/url] [b]You've already signed on to do the sequel to both XXX and Pitch Black, despite having turned down Fast & the Furious 2. Are you generally wary of sequels, or are you excited by them?[/b] Not a whole lot, which is why I turned down the The Fast and the Furious sequel. But with the Riddick character, the reason why I'm doing Chronicles of Riddick next is because I wanted to try to find a way to create a modern day mythology in a trilogy form, not unlike Lord of the Rings, but something more futuristic and more contemporary. I am excited about The Two Towers. I'm a huge, huge, huge fan of fantasy, which is why I've taken a fantasy-like approach to Riddick. It would have been so easy just to do a sequel to Pitch Black and go to another planet and fight other creatures. And that's actual the sequel scripts that were written at first. And that wasn't interesting at all to me. But what was interesting was taking a Tolkien-like mythological approach to the character and actually creating a trilogy [b]How much input do you have in the Pitch Black sequel?[/b] Well, story wise, I have a lot of input. Because, you know, I was talking about doing a sequel for a long time. A couple of scripts were even written by different writers. But I needed to go back to David Twohy, because he was the one that was most willing to really think outside of the box, and come up with the idea of creating a trilogy out of a character in a film that's really kind of a cult film. It is extremely daring, as you can imagine. But David had the belief in the concept, the belief that this could be a modern-day mythology, and was able to run with it. And I think David brings the Star Trek element, and I bring the Dungeons & Dragons element. So we're covered. [/QUOTE]
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