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Synopsis: Pitch Black (titled The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black on its DVD re-release) is a 2000 science fiction action horror film co-written and directed by David Twohy. The film stars Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, and Keith David. Dangerous criminal Richard B. Riddick (Diesel) is being transported to prison in a spacecraft. When the spaceship is damaged by comet debris and makes an emergency crash landing on an empty desert planet, Riddick escapes. However, when predatory alien creatures begin attacking the survivors, Riddick joins forces with the surviving crew and other passengers to develop a plan to escape the planet.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Production: Gramercy Pictures/ USA Films
  2 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
49
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
R
Year:
2000
109 min
Website
897 Views


Riddick, cuffed to a bulkhead. His eyes, still hidden by

goggles, track Johns and Audrey toward daylight.

EXT. CRASH SHIP - DAY

The survivors straggle outside. CAMERA SURVEYS new faces:

ZEKE and SHAZZA. Male-female team of bushwhackers, partners in

life. Shazza has a tough sexiness. Zeke's face shows aboriginal

blood. (30s.)

PARIS. Overfed, overgroomed. A puff pastry of a man. (40s or

50s.)

Four male "Chrislams": The pillar-steady IMAM (50ish), and

THREE PILGRIMS, young and excitable (late-teens). (NOTE: The

Chrislams represent a union between Christianity and Islam. They

have the iconography of Christians yet the physical look of Arab

Muslims.)

WIDE SHOT:
All around them is stark and unforgiving terrain.

The valley floor is relieved only by low hills to one side,

spiked with earthen spires. Scorching down on everything are

two suns -- one red, one yellow.

PARIS:

Well. Our own little slice of heaven.

The Chrislams fall to their knees. Confusion as they try to

orient themselves.

IMAM:

Please...which way to New Mecca? We must

know the direction in order to pray.

North? South? East? West? Nobody knows. Johns snaps open a

compass, finds the needle swaying rudderlessly. The SCREAMING

inside the ship finally ends.

INT. CRASH SHIP - DAY

As Fry holds Owens, now dead.

EXT. CRASH SHIP - DAY

The four Chrislams have devised a way to pray: Backs together,

each faces a different compass point.

EXT. TOP OF CRASH SHIP - DAY

Fry climbs onto the back of the ship. Johns Paris, Zeke, Shazza,

Audrey are already here.

JOHNS:

Big talk about a scouting party...

Fry sees the huge smoldering scar in the ground behind the ship.

One glance confirms that there are no other survivors.

JOHNS (CONT'D)

...then we saw this.

PARIS:

Anyone else having breathing problems?

Aside from me?

AUDREY:

Like I just ran, or something....

SHAZZA:

Feel one lung short. All of us.

PARIS:

Well, I tend toward the asthmatic. And

with all this dust....

Faces turn to Fry: They're looking to her for answers.

FRY:

It's the atmosphere. Too much pressure,

not enough oxygen. Might take a few days

to --

ZEKE:

So what the bloody hell happened, anyways?

FRY:

Somethin' knocked us off-lane. Maybe a

rogue comet. Maybe we'll never know.

SHAZZA:

Well, I for one, am thoroughly f***ing

grateful. This beast wasn't made to land

like this. But cripes, you rode it down.

(to others)

C'mon, you lousy ingrates, only reason

we're alive is a'cuzza her.

Others CHIME AGREEMENT, laying thankful hands on Fry's shoulders.

HOLD on Fry, her face betraying nothing as they anoint her their

savior.

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Ken Wheat

Ken Wheat (born 1950) is an American screenwriter, producer and director. He is the writer of Pitch Black and the brother of screenwriter Jim Wheat, with whom he has collaborated on a number of projects. more…

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