Vin Diesel gets all classical Greek in new "Riddick" image

A new still has arrived online from the upcoming release of "Riddick" the third installment in the outer space adventure series that began with the excellent "Pitch Black". The minute I saw this image I thought "I've seen that before" in the form of the classical Greek sculpture "Laocoon and his sons".

I've put the color image from the film on the left here and then below I've put a side by side comparison with both images in black and white. While it's not a perfect match to be sure I think it's fairly obvious where the inspiration for the Riddick still came from and that's great. It means the film makers are thinking about their work.

"Riddick" opens September 6th.