Hey folks, Harry here... after having his excellent BELOW dumped into an overstuffed market, its nice to see David Twohy getting a chance to really unleash a full on balls to the wall hardcore science fiction action adventure film series with THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK... Now, the below doesn't mean that Ray Park will be in that film, only that he'll most likely be looked at for a part in the film. I'm dying to get my hands on the script to this project. Hopefully - I'll find it under my Christmas tree... Here ya go...
Hey there Harry! Here's something I hope you find worthy of posting.
Last night I went to the "Meet the Writer" series at the Arclight where the featured film was "The Fugitive" with writer David Twohy. It's amazing how cool and how much fun this film still is after 10 years. Did you know that one of the drafts for the film had Gerard as the bad guy?
In addition to talking about the featured film they also discussed his upcoming writing/directing effort a semi-sequel to Pitch Black - "The Chronicles of Riddick". Apparently this one will be more of the action-adventure genre and will sport a much heftier budget. Of course the larger budget is due to Vin Diesel who will be starring once more and of course he's had a few hit films so Universal is willing to plunk down some hard cash on what sounds to be one of their summer flagships with a July 2004 release. Twohy wouldn't go too much into the story other then we'll find out a lot more about Riddick.
During the break I overheard a conversation between Twohy and someone who sounded like he was a talent rep. The rep was talking to Twohy about how great a fit Sith bad boy Ray Park would be in the film. It even sounded like they had a meeting scheduled with Ray. It'll be interesting to see how the rest of this develops and how this because one of the big movies of Summer 2004.
Hope this is news-worthy and if you do use it please call me:
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Jedi
