Director on "Chronicles of Riddick" Sequel

Bloody-Disgusting caught up with director David Twohy (Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick) to get an update on the third installment in the "Riddick" franchise.

"I've sketched out two ideas for continuing 'Riddick,' one of which Vin [Diesel] and I have settled in on," Twohy explained. "At the studio level, it would have to be a PG-13 movie again and we don't want to do that again. We want an R, so we are looking at the possibility of setting it up as an independent movie and selling it territory by territory and thereby keeping an ownership stake in the movie. But we're trying to see what that would yield in this unsafe market..."

He added that if everything goes as planned, the new "Riddick" sequel could go in front of the cameras as early as 2010. "It could be my next movie," said Twohy. "I know Vin's going to slide in 'XxX' first. He's doing a sequel to that the first of the year. So the soonest we could launch would be sometime next year."