There’s a much deeper connection between Pitch Black and the Fast & Furious franchise than what’s on the surface.
Long before the revived Fast & Furious franchise became a multi-billion dollar property, Vin Diesel stole every scene as the goggle wearing antihero Riddick in Pitch Black, a sci-fi horror yarn starring Radha Mitchell and Cole Hauser, where Diesel’s star power shined brightly, even through the movie’s awesome dark atmosphere.
“It was kind of a Hail Mary, it predated The Fast and the Furious, but led into that relationship,” Diesel explained in 2012.
Diesel got his second chance at a Pitch Black follow-up and eventually, Universal got Dom Toretto back in the driver’s seat.