10 Terrible Movies That Cost Way More Than They Needed To
8. The Chronicles Of Riddick - $120m
Pitch Black went a long way to establishing Vin Diesel's credentials as a breakout action hero in the early days of the 21st Century. The movie would go on to earn over double its budget at the box office and somewhat surprisingly, go on to launch a multimedia franchise that spanned animated shorts, novelizations and video games along with the inevitable sequel.
Quite why that sequel took the form of a bloated, po-faced, wannabe epic space opera that cost almost five times as much as the original was anyone's guess. Especially when the first entry was popular precisely because it was an effective, lean and mean sci-fi B-movie.
The Chronicles of Riddick attempted to design a rich, expansive mythology around the title character, but the whole thing is really kind of dull and more than a little pretentious. It may have gained a cult following on home video, but the $120m production fundamentally forgot pretty much everything that made Pitch Black such a hit with genre fans in the first place.