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The Chronicles of Riddick is a science fiction fantasy horror-thriller film franchise which focuses on futuristic adventures of a dangerous escaped convict named Richard B. Riddick (Vin Disel). Produced by Universal Studios, the franchise was established in 2000 with a live-action feature film titled Pitch Black, which has since been followed by two sequels, and two video games. In 2009, The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena was released on PS3, and XBOX360.

Films

===Pitch Black (2000)===

In the 27th century (2676 A.D.), the transport ship Hunter-Gratzner, its crew and passengers in cryo-stasis chambers, passes through a comet's tail while on autopilot; debris from the comet ruptures the hull and kills some of its crew, including the captain. The remaining crew is awakened and docking pilot Carolyn Fry (Radha Mitchell) crash lands on the nearby moon, Hades, also called M6-117, despite nearly dumping the passenger compartment; although many survive, the ship is a total loss. The survivors find the planet to be a dry, dead desert, its orbit around three suns keeping the surface in perpetual daylight. The survivors learn that one of the passengers is a dangerous criminal, Richard B. Riddick (Vin Diesel), who escaped in the crash. Riddick is chased by a bounty hunter, William J. Johns (Cole Hauser), before he gets away. Meanwhile, one of the other survivors is killed while investigating a nearby cave. Johns returns with Riddick, who is accused of the survivor's murder and kept under close guard. A group of the survivors travel to a nearby abandoned geological research settlement to find a supply of water and a spaceship they can use to escape the planet, though lacking power cells needed to start it up. Along the way, they encounter a mass grave of a large indigenous life form, and compare the site to an elephant graveyard on Earth. They wonder at their demise, and no living members of this species is ever encountered in the storyline. The wandering band comes to learn that Hades has native species of ravenous creatures called "Bioraptors" or "Demons" that slaughtered the geological station's scientists. They survive only in darkness; and can emerge only once every twenty two years for a one-month eclipse. Two varieties are seen: one smaller, comparable to flocks of swift falcons, the other larger and more like golden eagles or other large terran birds of prey. The human crash survivors, discovering an astronomical model of Hades' orbit, realize that the suns will soon become eclipsed from Hades by the planet it orbits around; plunging the surface into darkness for a month. They quickly race back to the crashed ship to collect the power cells, other supplies and the other survivors before this occurs. As they begin the journey back from the crash to the settlement the eclipse starts and the bioraptors begin to emerge from the underground caves and attack the survivors. Riddick explains that he had illegal surgery performed on his eyes in prison to give him perfect night vision and the group finds it necessary to trust him to lead them to safety. After Riddick realizes that Jack (Rhiana Griffith), a young runaway disguised as a boy, is female and on her menstrual cycle, Riddick tells the others that her blood is attracting the bioraptors. When Johns suggests leaving Jack behind to lure the creatures away, Riddick instead wounds Johns and leaves him as the bait. Soon the group is whittled down to Riddick, Fry, Jack and the Muslim Imam (Keith David); Riddick has the other three wait in a nearby cave as he takes the power cells the rest of the way, but the bioraptors begin to close in on them. The group then happens to discover bioluminescent worms in the cave that will keep the demons at bay. Concerned, Fry follows Riddick using the light from the worms, and finds him ready to take the escape craft by himself but convinces him to help rescue Jack and Imam by telling him she would be willing to sacrifice her life for them.

Returning to the cave, Riddick and the others proceed to the ship; Riddick is almost killed, but at the last minute, Fry manages to save him - at the expense of her own life. As they prepare to take off, Riddick waits for the last possible minute to kill as many of the bioraptors as possible in the ship's engine blast. As they are leaving the planet, Jack asks what they should say if they run into bounty hunters, mercenaries or other law enforcers asking where to find Riddick. Riddick responds:

"Tell em Riddick's dead. He died somewhere on that planet."

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury (2004)

The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury is direct-to-dvd animated film that was directed by the Korean-American animator Peter Chung, and features Vin Diesel reprising his role of Richard B. Riddick. Following the events of Pitch Black: shortly after escaping the alien habited planet; Riddick (Diesel), Jack (Griffith), and Imam (David) are picked up by a ship. They quickly discover that it's a mercenary ship. Although Riddick attempts to conceal his identity from the mercenaries by impersonating William J. Johns (in Pitch Black) over the intercom, they quickly voice-print and identify him. Captured by the mercenaries, the trio of survivors rapidly discover that their captors have unusual plans for them. The ship's owner, Antonia Chillingsworth (Tress MacNeille), is a collector of criminals, whom she freezes and keeps as statues that are, in her view, art. Although the criminals are frozen, they are still alive and conscious. To her Riddick is the ultimate "masterpiece" for her collection. Riddick, Jack, and Imam must face down and fight their way through the enormous army of human and nonhuman creatures at her disposal, or they will meet a fate far more cruel than death.

Riddick is pursued much of the story by Toombs and his Mercs. Mercs, short for mercenaries, are mercenarys/bounty hunters, such as shown in Pitch Black with the bounty hunter William J. Johns (Cole Hauser). Toombs is a character that Riddick will meet again in the Chronicles of Riddick movie. Mercs here are represented as mercenary soldiers that are kept in suspended animation until they are needed. They are released to confront Riddick and company aboard the ship. This foreshadows events when a group of mercenaries try to capture Riddick on the Planet UV as seen in the movie The Chronicles of Riddick. This film carries important character development elements for Jack (who becomes Kyra in The Chronicles of Riddick), as at the end she discovers her violent side by shooting the ship's owner just before she can kill Riddick. This discovery is clearly a source of worry for Riddick and Imam as the three escape from the mercenary ship. This manifests itself in Riddick's decision to deliver both Jack and Imam at New Mecca at the conclusion of the animation.

The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)

After five years wandering across the outskirts of the galaxy and being hunted by bounty hunters calming the bounty on his head, Riddick (Diesel) arrives on the colonized planet New Mecca, he learns Imam (David) placed the bounty on his head and Jack has been imprisoned on the prison planet "Crematoria" for murder. Riddick learns from Aereon, ambassador of the Elemental race is seeking out Furians, a race of warriors in a bid to balance the universe, as a warrior army known as The Necromongers led by the evil undead Lord Marshal (Colm Feore) are invading every planet in the galaxy and cleansing all of humanity in their goal for universal conquest. Believing Riddick is a Furian warrior, Aereon (Judi Dench) decides to hire Riddick believing he is the one man who can stop The Lord Marshal and the Necromongers. When the Necromongers attacks New Mecca, Riddick is captured by cocky bounty hunter Toombs and his crew and he is transported to Crematoria, where he reunites with Jack now named 'Kyra' (Alexa Davalos), where Riddick and Kyra escapes to the planet's sun ravaged surface, where Riddick helped by Necromonger warrior Vakko (Karl Urban) and his sexy wife Dame Vakko (Thandie Newton), sets out to defeat the Lord Marshal for their own gain.

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