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[LordOfLore]

Since people asked about a new Riddick movie in another thread I needed to post this when I saw it.

Link.

The sequel to Fifty Shades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker, opens this weekend. As Universal started to screen the film, one minor, beautiful detail became the focal point for discussion online: the fact that Christian Grey’s childhood bedroom has a Chronicles of Riddick poster in it.

Quick context since this is a bit out of our coverage realm. Fifty Shades Darker is the second of three films based on the wildly successful Fifty Shades books. They tell the story of a super-rich dude named Christian Grey (played by Jamie Dornan) and his love story slash sexual bondage escapades with a journalist named Ana Steele (played by Dakota Johnson). The books, by E.L James, began as online Twilight fan fiction and went on to become huge best-sellers because of their pseudo-risqué subject matter.

We’re writing about it because in the film, the couple go to visit Grey’s childhood home and on the wall is a UFC poster, as well as this:

That’s the poster to 2004's film The Chronicles of Riddick, starring Vin Diesel. It too is the second film in a kind of trilogy, though it’s about a space bounty hunter named Riddick. What’s so weird about this is, well, everything.

When The Chronicles of Riddick was released in the summer of 2004, Vin Diesel expected it to be a trilogy. Unfortunately, the sequel to Pitch Black underperformed and the Chronicles concluded. A sequel was released nine years later, but it continued Riddick’s story in a slightly different manner. Which is a long way of saying Riddick was hardly a big, formative movie for anyone who saw it when it came out.

In Fifty Shades, Christian Grey is supposed to be 27. That means he would have been an impressionable teenager in 2004. But Riddick? Really? That same year, Hollywood released Spider-Man 2, The Incredibles, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, National Treasure, Dodgeball, Collateral, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Mean Girls, The Notebook, and on and on. There are about 100 better, cooler movies Christian Grey could have had on his wall.

But Fifty Shades and Riddick were both made by Universal Pictures, which makes putting the poster in the film much less complicated, rights-wise. However, if that was the main reason, in 2004 Universal also released The Bourne Supremacy, Van Helsing, Friday Night Lights, and the Dawn of the Dead remake. All of which would seemingly make more sense in this context, not to mention be much cooler choices.

But no, it’s The Chronicles of Riddick. Movies.com uncovered the below interview where Dornan was asked about the oddity and it didn’t seem to surprise him much. Watch the first 30 seconds of this interview

So what does the fact Christian Grey liked Riddick say? That he liked macho science fiction? Violence? People dressed in black leather? Possibly all of the above? Either way, the fact this is true is the kind of stupid detail we’ve come to expect in bad fan fiction. And since Fifty Shades started as exactly that, the shoe definitely fits.

What a weird detail to pick out.

 

[SpaceWolf]

I....

Right, okay.

 

[Erevador]

Once again, IO9 fails to justify its continued existence.

Wish the long overdue death of Gawker had taken the rest of their blogs with it.

 

[jtb]

Escape from Butcher Bay is still one of the great games of all time.

(Had no idea until literally yesterday that the dev ended up making the Payday games)

 

[NealMcCauley]

 

[Khaz]

Dammit Riddick, I thought you were cool

 

[LiquidSword]

I thought this would lead to some interesting reason why that poster is in the movie but it goes no where. This is the worst kind of clickbait. They even write the first half like they are going to get to the weird interesting reason but it's just nothing.

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

The fictional kid has good taste. Great movie..especially that prison escape scene.

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

My taste in movies was... unconventional.

 

[Diprosalic]

I barely paid any attention to all of this but Grey is 27? I always thought he's supposed to be an "older" man that teaches the young woman. like 35 at least.

 

[Jackpot]

I liked CoR. And that poster has some nice art.

A teenager is far more likely to go for the takes-itself-too-seriously tone rather than goofy Van Helsing schlock.

 

[kittenbreath]

Boy, I really hope someone got fired for that blunder.

 

[robotrock]

Escape from Butcher Bay is still one of the great games of all time.

(Had no idea until literally yesterday that the dev ended up making the Payday games)

I actually have no idea how the Starbreeze lineage goes. I had thought ex-GRID employees formed Overkill as a studio and developed those games, and maybe Starbreeze just published them?

I know that some ex-Starbreeze who worked on Butcher Bay went to form Machine Games and made Wolfenstein: The New Order

 

[FallingEdge]

I barely paid any attention to all of this but Grey is 27? I always thought he's supposed to be an "older" man that teaches the young woman. like 35 at least.

He's 45 in internet porn years.

 

[whytemyke]

Blame Tooms

 

[Ashhong]

I saw this same thing brought up in the 50 Shades review thread. iO9 reads GAF??

Who cares????????????????????????????????? I understand the appeal of clickbait articles and stuff like that, but there can't be a single person out there that cares what poster is on his childhood wall. Can there?

 

[Cormano]

So... what if I liked Pitch Black?

 

[Stabby McSter]

So... what if I liked Pitch Black?

you're still a sex addict

 

[WeirdoStalkerJr]

I wanna see Riddick go after Falcor in the underverse godamitt. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeee! No prequel!

 

[LakeEarth]

And the kid in 'Adventures in Babysitting' loved Thor, so it's that movie's fault that we now have Thor movies. Going by this articles logic.

 

[TwoDurans]

Huh?

 

[MIMIC]

I was cracking up while reading all of that. They really went too far in depth with that.

But Fifty Shades and Riddick were both made by Universal Pictures, which makes putting the poster in the film much less complicated, rights-wise. However,

Me: STOOPPPPPPPPP!!!!

 

[radios shipping overview]

I imagine Christian Grey as a Patrick Bateman that hasn't killed anybody yet. I haven't seen any of these movies nor read the books. I'm going to keep assuming that that's what he is.

 

[Dominator]

I just finished watching Oblivion. Love this gif lol

 

[Kayhan]

 

[UrbanRats]

In Fifty Shades, Christian Grey is supposed to be 27. That means he would have been an impressionable teenager in 2004. But Riddick? Really? That same year, Hollywood released Spider-Man 2, The Incredibles, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, National Treasure, Dodgeball, Collateral, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Mean Girls, The Notebook, and on and on. There are about 100 better, cooler movies Christian Grey could have had on his wall.

I'll take Chronicles Of Riddick over all of those except Spiderman 2.

 

[7Th]

That random mention of The Notebook as a movie a teenage guy would enjoy seems rather odd.

 

[Linkura]

What the fuck did I just read?

 

[Kayhan]

I barely paid any attention to all of this but Grey is 27? I always thought he's supposed to be an "older" man that teaches the young woman. like 35 at least.

He looks like he is about 33-36 in the movies.

Not that I would ever watch these movies.

 

[Loxley]

I'll reveal the secret to the mystery:

Spoiler

The set decorator came across a Chronicles of Riddick poster while looking for things that would be in a teenage boy's room in 2004 and thought, "Sure, why not". The end.

 

[jtb]

I'll take Chronicles Of Riddick over all of those except Spiderman 2.

Over Kill Bill? Over fucking Collateral???

 

[sphagnum]

It's because it has dick in the name and it's a movie about sex.

 

[Twilight Princess]

This is by far the most important piece of knowledge I've learned this year.

 

[old manatee]

wtf more like Chronicles of Riddickulous

 

[Cardon]

What's this all these shit io9 articles being posted lately? Someone thirsty for hits?

 

[UrbanRats]

Over Kill Bill? Over fucking Collateral???

Sure.
I don't like Collateral that much, and am not a fan of Tarantino.
Chronicles is good schlock.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Christian Gray seems like a cool dude. I'd be his pal.

 

[layzie1989]

Uhhh this makes perfect sense. No idea what article in OP is thinking...

 

[bengraven]

I loved a lot of those movies mentioned in the article but I also loved Riddick and had the poster (thanks free poster bin at the rental store). I didn't give a shit about half the movies the author said are "cooler".

Does this make me alpha?

 

[Kinyou]

That same year, Hollywood released Spider-Man 2, The Incredibles, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban,National Treasure, Dodgeball, Collateral, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Mean Girls, The Notebook, and on and on. There are about 100 better, cooler movies Christian Grey could have had on his wall.

okay....

 

[ryseing]

I actually have no idea how the Starbreeze lineage goes. I had thought ex-GRID employees formed Overkill as a studio and developed those games, and maybe Starbreeze just published them?

I know that some ex-Starbreeze who worked on Butcher Bay went to form Machine Games and made Wolfenstein: The New Order

Starbreeze also made the criminally underrated Syndicate.

 

[Messofanego]

"In Fifty Shades, Christian Grey is supposed to be 27. That means he would have been an impressionable teenager in 2004. But Riddick? Really? That same year, Hollywood released Spider-Man 2, The Incredibles, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, National Treasure, Dodgeball, Collateral, Kill Bill Vol. 2, Mean Girls, The Notebook, and on and on. There are about 100 better, cooler movies Christian Grey could have had on his wall.

But Fifty Shades and Riddick were both made by Universal Pictures, which makes putting the poster in the film much less complicated, rights-wise. However, if that was the main reason, in 2004 Universal also released The Bourne Supremacy, Van Helsing, Friday Night Lights, and the Dawn of the Dead remake. All of which would seemingly make more sense in this context, not to mention be much cooler choices."

This is BobbyRoberts level of geekiness

 

[chadderbox77]

I love the Chronicles of Riddick. It's my favorite of all of them. I think I'll have to watch it tonight!

 

[TheOddOne]

That is some Comic Book Guy level of complaining. Stop it, Internet.

 

[zeemumu]

So... what if I liked Pitch Black?

Should've been the name of the 4th book.

 

[HStallion]

Reading articles like this makes me really wonder if I picked the right profession.

 

[Rootbeer]

I'm a similar age to the character in question. Saw CoR in theaters and loved it.

Weird argument.

 

[IndieJones]

I was 27 when I saw CoR in the theatre and still really enjoyed it.

I'l also take any opportunity I can to say that Van Helsing is trash and is only one of two movies I ever walked out on. It's the movie equivalent of Ace Combat: Assault Horizon.

 

[Corleth the Fey]

Chronicles of Riddick is bloody great. It's a bit out there, but I loved it for that. The director's cut is also much better at explaining what is going on.

Fuck this clickbait site for dissing this film - just to get traffic via a real idiot ball shitfest rom com soft porn derp fest. It had quite enough pathetic detractors around its release. Maybe they though it was an easy target, well I've brought my tea cup.

Kyra: Death by tea-cup. Damn. Why didn't I think of that?

 

[Pai Pai Master]

I havent actually read the story. Is Grey really a sex addict, or is that just how the writer of the article has decided to label him based on his fetishes?