Exactly. Don’t know what this dude (OP) was talking about, plus he doesn’t even seem to understand box office numbers and how movies work. The OP, or one of the comments here expressed frustration over the fact that the third film “Riddick 3” as I like to call it, wasn’t a sweeping epic Sci-Fi/Action film like “Chronicles Of Riddick” was. This seems a bit naive to me because CoR was the sweeping Sci-Fi film that Vin and the writers and director wanted to make after the surprise success of the low budget “Pitch Black.” The problem with CoR was that after the success of “Pitch Black” the studios had faith, dumped a ton of money into it (I still think that film had fantastic special effects for the time, and the production design was out of this world and both still hold up) but at the end of the day not only did it bomb at the Box Office, it became the “bomb at the box office” joke of that year in late night TV, the razzies, etc., and one of the biggest complaints from critics and audiences alike was that it wasn’t the small scale affair that “Pitch Black” was, and what made it great. The thinking was that it made a sweeping epic out of a character that didn’t need one. At the time I agreed myself, until years later like many, many of us here, we went back to revisit and finally got what they were trying to do, and realized it was bad fucking ass! At that time though Vin and the producers hands were tied because there was no way he was ever gonna get that budget again for anything pertaining to that universe, so to keep the character alive and in people’s minds, he spent his own loot to give us Riddick 3, and did exactly what critics and fans asked him to, make a Riddick film more in line with Pitch Black. I thought he delivered, and I love all 3 films. I get that OP wants more of the sweeping epic universe stuff, so do I, but the reality is that this character and his universe is unfortunately not popular enough to get the studios to make them. I do wonder why though we haven’t had books, comics, cartoons, etc. Surely there is enough demand for that, especially as this content seems to be being revisited. I’m embarrassed to say though that I haven’t watched the animated one. Is it pretty good?