Australia lost to Canada on being the site for the sequel to Vin Diesel's Riddick film franchise. Source: AAP
AUSTRALIA lost out on being the site for a $US40 million ($A45.00 million) science-fiction, action movie sequel starring Vin Diesel because the tax incentives the federal and state governments offered could not compete with Canada, the film's Hollywood director said.
In 1999 Diesel and director-writer David Twohy made Pitch Black in Australia, a film about space travellers attempting to survive a crash on a desolate planet.
It was shot in Queensland and on sun-scorched areas outside Coober Pedy in South Australia.
The film sparked a 2004 sequel, The Chronicles of Riddick, which was shot in Canada but was panned by critics.
When Diesel and Twohy were working on the third film in the series, Riddick, they wanted to capture the feel of Pitch Black so looked at returning to Australia.
They settled on Montreal, Canada.
"When you look at the dollars and cents, Australia does have some kind of film incentive program, but it is just not nearly as strong as Canada," Twohy told reporters in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
"When you are trying to make a movie for a price, you have to chase that.
"Unfortunately that's why so much US production is in Louisiana now because they have this strong 40 per cent rebate program going on.
"I hope it changes because we had a very good time in Australia."
Riddick, which opens in Australia on September 12, follows Diesel's character, an escaped convict, as he attempts to evade bounty hunters, alien dogs and scorpion-like creatures known as mud demons on a bleak, almost inhospitable planet.
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