In een interview van Vin Diesel met de website GameSpot, over de videogame "The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena", vertelt hij dat een derde Chronicles of Riddick zeer waarschijnlijk is. David Twohy, die zowel Pitch Black als The Chronicles of Riddick regisseerde, zou momenteel de laatste hand leggen aan het script.

"Maybe we're too tight-lipped about the next 'Chronicles of Riddick' film, and I think circa the release of [Dark Athena] that's probably when you'll start hearing more about the next 'Riddick' film," Diesel said. "It is underway and I almost think it's a coincidence that we haven't heard anything, that there hasn't been a lot of public stuff on the 'Riddick' movie.