Hey, Vin Diesel’s NewRiddickMovie Is Really Happening

It ’s been over a decennium since we last caught up withVin Diesel ’s sci - fi antihero Richard B. Riddick — Diesel ’s been spend most of his meter voicingMarvel ’s Grootand doingFast & Furious pic — but it ’s time to delve those goggles out of storage . The 4th film in the series , titled Riddick : Furya , is officially on the room .

This is n’t the first fourth dimension we ’re hearing about Furya;over a year ago , it was report that Diesel was contrive to re - team with writer - director David Twohy , who co - wrote and directed 2000 ’s Pitch Black , and wrote and directed 2004 ’s The Chronicles of Riddick and 2013 ’s Riddick . At the time , a press release depict the film as “ a return to Riddick ’s homeworld , where we finally get to explore Riddick ’s Book of Genesis . ”

Today ’s update , reported inDeadline , avow it ’s full speed in the lead for the sci - fi subsequence , which start production in late August . The description remains well-nigh the same as the one we already have it off : “ In Riddick : Furya , Riddick finally returns to his home world , a place he scantily remembers and one he fears might be left in ruins . But there he finds other Furyans fighting for their macrocosm against a novel monster . And some of these Furyans are more like Riddick than he could have ever ideate . ”

Riddick (2013)

Riddick (2013)Image: Universal Pictures

Are you attend forward to seeing Diesel devolve to the part of Riddick ? Will there be anything as bonkers in Furya as Judi Dench ’s cameo in The Chronicles of Riddick ? Share your thoughts below .

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