Katee Sackhoff is Female Lead in "Riddick 3"

Deadline has learned that Katee Sackhoff ("Battlestar Galactica") is in final negotiations to play the female lead opposite Vin Diesel in the third "Chronicles of Riddick" film.

Sackhoff will play Dahl, a NOrdic mercenary tracking Riddick. According to recent reports, Karl Urban has accepted the offer to reprise his role as Vaako, one of Lord Marshal's commanders. The new movie was recently put on hold due to payment issues. Production is now back on track in Montreal.

Plot: Betrayed by his own kind and left for dead on a desolate planet, Riddick (Diesel) fights for survival against alien predators and becomes more powerful and dangerous than ever before. Soon bounty hunters from throughout the galaxy descend on Riddick only to find themselves pawns in his greater scheme for revenge. With his enemies right where he wants them, Riddick unleashes a vicious attack of vengeance before returning to his home planet of Furya to save it from destruction.