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Vin Diesel Shows Off First ‘Riddick’ Image Plus NAACP Award Nomination

22 January 2012
By Curt Johnson
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Vin Diesel is riding his action star comeback and showing off his new ‘Riddick‘ movie set image along with his NAACP award nomination for playing Dom Toretto in ‘Fast Five‘.

This time around, it appears Vin Diesel isn’t taking his action star status for granted, and he spouts feel good messages on his Facebook fanpage every few days, plus images of himself. You wonder how he survived before social media hit. As we said way back, Diesel knew that ‘Fast Five‘ could bring his seemingly dormant career back on track, and it definitely did, being one of the best films of that franchise. Now he’s earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for his role, plus, his ‘Riddick‘ movie that he’s been championing for years is prepping for production. Naturally, he used his Facebook page to reveal the first look from the set above. He’s smart to know to thank all his fans for making ‘Riddick’ happen as the studio never would have if ‘Fast Five’ had just brought in a ho-hum box office.

Director David Twohy is back for his third Riddick film that doesn’t have a set in stone release date yet, but as with ‘Fast Five’ Diesel knows this one has to have some major bang to keep it alive. Basically, if he can best the original ‘Pitch Black’ or even be half as good, that will help fans forgive that mismash mess called ‘The Chronicles Of Riddick‘. ‘Battlestar Galactica‘ actress Katee Sackhoff recently came onboard the film as, Dahl, a Nordic mercenary tasked with hunting down Riddick. Jordi Molla is playing the movie’s bad guy, a man named Santana bent on killing Riddick, and Karl Urban is back as Lord Vaako.

Riddick Movie Synopsis

Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.

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