More than 26,000 fans “liked” the idea of a sequel, and an hour later, Diesel returned to thank fans for their “interesting and intelligent responses” and let them know he was off to chat again with Twohy. The duo sounds willing to go the lower-budget independent route to make an R movie. Twohy has said before that they had a $22 million budget for 2000′s R-rated introduction to the character, Pitch Black