8 Movies That Deserve New Comic Book Spin-Offs

3. Riddick

While Pitch Black may not have revolutionized science-fiction cinema, it was a solid low-budget movie that introduced one terrific character: Richard B. Riddick.

Riddick makes for a likeable anti-hero, with a simple but eye-catching look (goggles, vest, bald head, Vin Diesel's impressive guns) and an artificial ability to see in the dark. Since Pitch Black, Riddick has appeared in the so-so Chronicles of Riddick and a hit video game, Escape from Butcher Bay. 2013's Riddick may not have set the world aflame, but it was a solid little movie that put the character to great use.

Given his tendency to wander, his grey morality, and the expansive universe he exists in, Riddick would work brilliantly in a comic-book spin-off. Stories could follow on from Riddick, or dip into his past, showing us how he came to be who he is and why. This is a setting in which gun-toting mercenaries, bizarre aliens, and various cultures exist across a disparate galaxy, giving Riddick no end of adventures to go on. With the odds of a fourth film not really in fans' favour and video games almost as costly to produce, comics offer Riddick a place to flourish.