Universal Home Video is prepping an unrated director’s cut of the effects-laden sci-fi actioner, The Chronicles of Riddick. Featuring a new character, 14 minutes of additional footage, never-before-seen visual effects and the first level of Vivendi Universal’s The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay for Xbox, the new version is scheduled to arrive on DVD Nov. 16.
Vin Diesel is back as Riddick in this follow-up to writer-director David Twohy’s 2000 sci-fi sleeper hit, Pitch Black. The film continues the story of an escaped convict who emerges as the most unlikely of heroes in a fight for survival that will determine the fate of humanity in a dangerous world. The cast also includes Alexa Davalos (Pitch Black, HBO’s And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself), Thandie Newton (Mission: Impossible II, TV’s ER), Karl Urban (The Bourne Supremacy, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King), Colm Feore (Chicago, The Sum of All Fears) Academy Award winner Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love, Chocolat) and Keith David (Pitch Black).
Extra features include a behind-the-scenes tour of the Riddick sets guided by Diesel, an interactive 360 degree view of eight different sets from the film, a play-by-play breakdown of the film’s most complex and compelling visual effects, deleted scenes, an interactive guide from the perspectives of the characters, on-demand facts and trivia, Toombs’ Chase Log and audio commentary with Twohy, Urban and Davalos.
The unrated director’s cut version will be priced at $29.98 DVD and $22.98 VHS. The PG-13 theatrical version is now available to own.
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