Behind the Chronicles

There's a great interview with David Twohy, the guy who created, wrote, and directed "Chronicles of Riddick" at Joblo.com. Not only is it interesting as to how the process came about, but also that there are virtually no spoilers. I really want to see this movie, just so I can find out what the heck they're talking about. Did they really create an original scifi vision as they intended or is it just a "Star Wars" knock-off as others claim. Given that "Pitch Black" was considered an "Aliens" knock-off, I can only hope that "Chronicles" does for SW rip-offs what "Pitch" did for Alien-ripoffs.