The Chronicles of Riddick is an American science fiction-horror[1] and action media franchise created by brothers Ken and Jim Wheat and later continued by writer-director David Twohy.

When the craft is damaged in the wake of a comet and makes an emergency crash landing on an isolated desert planet, Riddick escapes.

Five years after the events of Pitch Black, Riddick evades bounty hunters and learns of a warrior army known as "The Necromongers".

In 2006, Vin Diesel agreed to make a cameo in Universal's film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in exchange for the ownership to the rights to the Riddick character.

[2] Encouraged by high DVD sales and Diesel's newly restored box office success, David Twohy wrote a script for a third film in the Riddick series.

Betrayed and left for dead by the Necromongers on a desolate planet, Riddick is forced to fight for survival against alien predators.

Escape from Butcher Bay is a video game based on the Riddick series, released for the Xbox and Windows PC.

[14] Pitch Black and The Chronicles of Riddick have received novelizations of their scripts, by Frank Lauria and Alan Dean Foster respectively.

Notably, it shows Riddick undergoing the surgery that gives him "eyeshine"—the ability to see in the dark—and paying for this with a pack of Kool cigarettes, as mentioned in Pitch Black.

Riddick: Blindsided is a motion comic based on storyboarded scenes[15] of the third film that didn't make the theatrical cut.