Pitch Black (film)

109 minutes theatrical cut

In the distant future, the civilian transport ship HunterGratzner passes near a desert planet while on autopilot with its crew and passengers in cryostasis chambers. The passengers mostly consist of nomadic settlers who are relocating to other planets, a Muslim priest who goes by the title Imam, with his sons traveling to New Mecca, a young boy named Jack, a pair of Bushwhackers named Shazza and Zeke, a merchant named Paris, and a law enforcement officer, William J. Johns, who is transporting a notorious criminal, Richard B. Riddick, who is chained in a special chamber and is the only one awake even while in cryostasis. Riddick has illegally surgicallymodified eyes, called Shiners, that give him extrasensitive vision that allows him to see in the dark.While passing through a comet tail, a cometary debris cloud ruptures the hull, killing the captain. The two other members of the crew, including a docking pilot, Carolyn Fry, and her copilot Greg Owens, attempt to land the ship on the nearby planet. As the ship starts to rupture and fall apart from meteor damage and the heat of reentry, Fry is forced to jettison some of the sections of the ship to give them a chance of a safe landing. Fry, in a moment of desperation, tries to dump the passenger section of the ship to reduce their weight, intending to kill the passengers to save herself. Owens, shocked by her sacrifice of morality in exchange for her own survival, locks out the releasing mechanisms to stop Fry from killing the passengers, but dies in the crash landing. Fry joins the surviving passengers. Fry assumes the role of Captain and hides the fact that she tried to kill them. ........

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