Riddick (Vin Diesel) racing the sun on Crematoria in The Chronicles of Riddick
The genesis of this (let’s call it what it is) thesis is rooted in the much maligned Chronicles of Riddick. I am a massive (possibly the only) fan of this film generally, but what really got me thinking about the whole thing was seeing Riddick and a bunch of other people whose names I didn’t bother to learn outrun a 7000 degree sun across the surface of a planet before it rises.Read that sentence again. It’s one thing to take on loads of baddies with guns and nunchucks and whatnot but to OUTRUN THE SUN AND WIN? Just... well.