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Pitch Black
When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.
2000 · Directed by David Twohy · 108 min · Thriller · Science Fiction · Action · Screenplay in the scene database · 11 frames
Tagline
Don't be afraid of the dark. Be afraid of what's in the dark.
Plot
In the year 2678, the spaceship Hunter-Gratzner is struck by micrometeoroids that penetrate the hull, killing the captain and sending it off course toward a nearby planet. First Officer Owens and docking pilot Carolyn Fry attempt an emergency landing. As the ship descends uncontrollably, a panicked Fry prepares to jettison the passengers held in cryostasis to save herself, but Owens intervenes. The ship crash-lands, killing Owens and most of the passengers. The survivors include Fry; Imam Abu al-Walid, escorting three young students (Ali, Hassan and Suleiman) to New Mecca; a teenage boy named Jack; prospectors Shazza and Zeke; wealthy merchant Paris; law enforcement officer William J. Johns; and his prisoner, the dangerous and enigmatic criminal Richard B. Riddick, who escapes in the confusion.
While searching for him across the sun-scorched and seemingly barren planet, the group discovers an abandoned geological research settlement with a nonfunctional dropship. When Zeke goes missing, the survivors suspect Riddick. However, Fry investigates a nearby underground cave where she is attacked by aggressive creatures and narrowly escapes. Johns recaptures Riddick and offers to release him in exchange for helping them escape the planet.
While exploring the settlement, one of the students, Ali, disturbs a cluster of juvenile creatures, which devour him before retreating underground to avoid the sun, revealing a fatal vulnerability to light. Using an orrery, Fry discovers that a total eclipse—occurring every twenty-two years—is imminent. Once darkness falls, the creatures will emerge to hunt, explaining the fate of the previous settlers. As tension builds, both Johns and Riddick try to win Fry to their side: Fry recounts Riddick's cold pragmatism, while Riddick exposes Johns as a morphine-addicted bounty hunter who had refused to use his drugs to ease Owens' agonizing death.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat, David Twohy
- Cinematography: David Eggby
- Edited by: Rick Shaine
- Music: Graeme Revell
- Production design: Graham "Grace" Walker
- Produced by: Tom Engelman
Cast
- Vin Diesel as Richard B. Riddick
- Radha Mitchell as Carolyn Fry
- Cole Hauser as William J. Johns
- Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Paris P. Ogilvie
- Claudia Black as Shazza
- Keith David as Abu 'Imam' al-Walid
- Rhiana Griffith as Jack / Jackie
- John Moore as John 'Zeke' Ezekiel
- Simon Burke as Greg Owens
- Les Chantery as Suleiman
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Arabic, English
- Studios: Interscope Communications
- Budget: $23,000,000
- Box office: $53,187,659
- Themes: darkness, dystopia, comet, alien life-form, survival, creature, eclipse, flask, spaceship crash, intense
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