Pitch Black 2000 [TRUSTED DOWNLOAD]
Directed by David Twohy
Produced by Tom Engelman
Written by Story:
Jim Wheat
Ken Wheat
Screenplay:
Jim Wheat
Ken Wheat
David Twohy
Starring Vin Diesel
Radha Mitchell
Claudia Lee Black
Cole Hauser
Keith David
Lewis Fitz-Gerald
Music by Graeme Revell
Cinematography David Eggby
Editing by Rick Shaine
Distributed by USA Films (USA theatrical)
Universal Studios (all other rights)
Release date(s) 2000-02-18
Running time 109 min [original release]
112 min [director's cut]
Language English
Arabic
Budget US$23,000,000
Gross revenue US$53,187,659
Followed by The Chronicles of Riddick
Plot summary
In the 26th century, the transport ship Hunter-Gratzner, its crew and passengers in cryo-stasis chambers, passes through a comet's tail while on autopilot; debris from the comet ruptures the hull and kills some of its crew, including the captain. The remaining crew is awakened and docking pilot Carolyn Fry crash lands on the nearby planet, Hades, despite nearly dumping the passenger compartment; although many survive, the ship is a total loss. The survivors find the planet to be near desert, its orbit around three suns keeping the surface in perpetual daylight. The survivors learn that one of the passengers is a dangerous criminal, Richard B. Riddick, who escaped in the crash. Riddick is chased by a bounty hunter, William J. Johns, before he gets away. Meanwhile, one of the other survivors is killed while investigating a nearby cave. Johns returns with Riddick, who is accused of the survivor's murder and kept under close guard.
A group of the survivors travel to a nearby abandoned geological research settlement to find a supply of water and a spaceship they can use to escape the planet, though lacking power cells needed to start it up. They come to learn that the planet has a native species of deadly bat-like creatures that preyed on the residents of the settlement but only hunt in darkness, staying in the planet's cave systems otherwise. The survivors, discovering a astronomical model of Hades' orbit, realize that the suns will soon become eclipsed from Hades from another planet in the system, plunging the surface into darkness for an unspecified length of time. They quickly race back to the crashed ship to collect the power cells, other supplies and the other survivors before this occurs.
As they begin the journey back from the crash to the settlement the eclipse starts and the creatures begin to emerge from the underground caves and attack the survivors. Riddick reveals that he has had illegal surgery performed on his eyes to give him perfect night vision and the group finds it necessary to trust him to lead them to safety. After Riddick realizes that Jack, a young runaway disguised as a boy, is female and on her menstrual cycle, Riddick tells the others that her blood is attracting the creatures. When Johns suggests leaving Jack behind to lure the creatures away, Riddick instead wounds Johns and leaves him as the bait. Soon the group is whittled down to Riddick, Fry, Jack and the Muslim Imam; Riddick has the other three wait in a nearby cave with bioluminescent worms that will keep the creatures at bay while he proceeds with the heavy power cells. Concerned, Fry follows Riddick and finds him ready to take the escape craft by himself but manages to convince him to help rescue Jack and Imam.
Returning to the cave, Riddick and the others proceed to the ship; Riddick is taken by the creatures, but is saved by Fry's sacrifice. As they prepare to take off, Riddick waits for the last possible minute to kill as many of the creatures as possible in the ship's engine blast. As they are leaving the planet, Jack asks what they should say if they run into bounty hunters or other law enforcers asking where to find Riddick. Riddick responds:
"Tell 'em Riddick's dead. He died somewhere on that planet."
