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''Pitch Black'' (titled ''The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black'' on its DVD 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. ''Pitch Black'' was the final film credit of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, which merged with Universal Pictures during production. It was shot on a modest budget of US$23 million. Despite mixed reviews from critics, it was a sleeper hit, grossing over US$53 million worldwide and developing its own cult following, particularly around the antihero Riddick. A sequel, ''The Chronicles of Riddick'', was released in 2004 by Universal, with Diesel back as the title character and Twohy returning as writer and director. A third film simply entitled ''Riddick'' was released in 2013, with Diesel and Twohy reuniting again. ==Plot summary== In the distant future, the civilian transport ship ''Hunter-Gratzner'' passes near a desert planet while on autopilot with its crew and passengers in cryostasis chambers. The passengers mostly consist of nomadic settlers who are relocating to other planets, a Muslim priest who goes by the title "Imam", with his followers traveling to New Mecca, a young boy named Jack, a pair of Bushwhackers named Shazza and Zeke, a merchant named Paris, and a law enforcement officer, William J. Johns, who is transporting a notorious criminal, Richard B. Riddick, who is chained in a special chamber and is the only one awake while in cryostasis. Riddick has illegally surgically-modified eyes, called Shiners, that give him extra-sensitive vision that allows him to see in the dark. While passing through a comet tail, a cometary debris cloud ruptures the hull, killing the captain. The two other members of the crew, including a docking pilot, Carolyn Fry, and her co-pilot Greg Owens, attempt to land the ship on the nearby planet. As the ship starts to rupture and fall apart from meteor damage and the heat of re-entry, Fry is forced to jettison some of the sections of the ship to give them a chance of a safe landing. Fry, in a moment of desperation, tries to dump the passenger section of the ship to reduce their weight, intending to kill the passengers to save herself. Owens, shocked by her sacrifice of morality in exchange for her own survival, locks out the releasing mechanisms to stop Fry from killing the passengers, but dies in the crash landing. Fry joins the surviving passengers. Fry assumes the role of Captain and hides the fact that she tried to kill them. The group gathers up supplies and begins exploring their surroundings. Tension runs high after Riddick escapes and Johns warns everyone that Riddick may kill them all. The group soon notices that the three suns surrounding the planet keep it in perpetual daylight and they begin searching for water. One of the survivors goes missing and while searching for him, Fry accidentally discovers photosensitive creatures underground that are swift hunters. The group decides to walk across the desert looking for water and supplies. They come across an abandoned geological research settlement, with supplies of water and an emergency dropship with drained batteries. Inside the settlement, they discover more creatures and one of Imam's children is killed. The group also discovers a model of the planet's solar system showing that very soon the planet will be eclipsed and the creatures will be free to hunt above ground. Riddick rejoins the group, belying Johns' prediction, and they all agree to go back to the crash site and retrieve the power cells from the downed ship, which will then be used to power the escape ship. Riddick talks to Fry privately and reveals that Johns is not actually a law officer, but a morphine-addicted mercenary and a bounty hunter who is attempting to collect a bounty on Riddick. The group reaches the wreckage to collect the power cells but the eclipse begins before they can return to the settlement. The creatures begin pouring out of the ground, killing another survivor. The rest of the group hole up in the wreckage and work on planning their next move. Inside, the creatures kill another of the children. The group decides to salvage any light source that they can and create a caravan to return to the dropship. Riddick agrees to lead them. After they accidentally cut their light source power en route, and Imam notices that they have crossed their own tracks, the group stops and Riddick has noticed that the creatures hunt by blood. Jack seems to be attracting the most attention, meaning he must be bleeding. The others don't understand until Riddick reveals that Jack is actually a female and the scent of her menstrual blood is attracting the creatures to them. Johns pulls Riddick aside and tells him about his plan to survive - kill Jack and use her corpse as bait to keep the creatures off the rest of the group. Riddick attacks and severely wounds Johns and uses him as the bait, seeing Johns more amoral and opportunistic than himself. The others make a run for it, and try to make light from flares, but only Fry, Jack, Riddick and Imam make it to a cave near the ship after an unexpected rain puts out their flares. Riddick seals them in the cave with a large stone and takes the power cells to the settlement. Inside the cave, they discover bio-luminescent worms, which they stuff in bottles to use as light. Fry leaves the cave and finds Riddick powering up the ship to leave without them. She pleads with him to help her rescue Imam and Jack, but instead he offers to take her with him. Ultimately, Riddick has a change of heart and they retrieve Imam and Jack and take them to the ship but Riddick is separated from the group and is wounded by two of the aliens. As Fry returns to help Riddick, she pulls him back to his feet and helps him walk, telling him that she would be the one who would die for the others, not him. Suddenly, just meters from the skiff, one of the indigenous predators impales her with its tail and rips her away from Riddick, flying off with her into the rainy darkness as Riddick shouts "Not for me!". Riddick then returns to the ship where Jack and Imam await and, in a final stroke of revenge, he delays the departure until the last possible second before engaging the engines at full throttle to incinerate the greatest possible number of the advancing creatures. In orbit, Riddick tells Jack to say to any bounty hunters or other law enforcers that Riddick died somewhere on the planet below, and they depart for New Mecca. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pitch Black (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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