Monday, January 20, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities #105


"We used taglines like Jeremiah Riddick because we scale it back so much and distill it.  It’s something we take pride in, because you have films in the Chronicles that are isolated and contained like Pitch Black. This might even be more contained because it’s a guy struggling to survive after being betrayed by the power he was just given."

- Vin Diesel discusses Riddick (2013) in an interview at Collider. 
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