This is wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Screen International has announced that sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching international pre-sales on S. Darko at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. And, yes, this is what you think - a sequel to Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko with Daviegh Chase reprising her role as the younger Darko sister. Richard Kelly has no official involvement whatsoever. Darko needs a sequel about as badly as the original Highlander did, which is to say not at all, and I fully expect the results of this to be about the same, which is to say horribly bad. I'm bothered that they're doing a sequel at all, that they're doing it without Kelly boggles the mind as Darko was Kelly's baby ... my guess is Kelly has too much love for his creation to bastardize it this way himself and not enough financial control over the property to stop other people from doing it for him ... Icky.
Well I hated the first I guess I'll hate the second as well.
whats next, a fight club sequel
Ouch. Perhaps someone should keep a list of the top 10 bad movie decisions this year. - though I don't know that anyone will top this.
This surprises you? Misguided remakes and sequels are the death throes of this industry. But I try to look at the good side: if the industry collapses, it leaves the art form wide open.
It makes me want to open up a window and shout:
D-O-N-K-E-Y B-A-L-L-S!
I was so pumped for and loved the original, and wept when it became the emo 'it' movie 5 years later :(
how about a coherent cut of Southland Tales first?
Sigh... i'm seriously not surprised anymore. I love Donnie Darko... remaking should be illegal...
How frigging odd! I mean, this makes zero sense at all! There is absolutely no reason for a sequel to the original in the slightest.
Just boggles the mind man.
this makes perfect sense. kelly probably has very little ownership rights to the film if any at all. the studios can do what they want with whatever they own.
i hang my head and sigh. i guess it will be a direct to dvd/sci-fi channel midnight movie. why? there is no point to do this "sequel" other than for someone to put a little extra money in their pockets.
Richard Kelly should halt this atrocious idea and make a prequel called
Roberta Sparrow. Now THAT'S A MOVIE!
Awesome. The first movie was good. I bet this sequel will be even better.
But THE QUICKENING explains that they aren't immortals, they're aliens. That's the coolest thing ever!
Only if by coolest thing ever you mean complete and utter bullshit. Heh. The original Highlander was a complete story, totally self contained and finished in and of itself. To make the sequel The Quickening not only had to resurrect dead characters but it completely rewrote the underlying mythology of the first and that just pisses me off to no end.
The Quickening was bad, no matter which edit you saw. Sean Connery's delivery of his first lines sums it up perfectly. The Magician might have worked if Mario Van Peebles hadn't ripped off Clancy Brown's performance from the first movie. End Game took all that was good about the original and destroyed it totally (Donnie Yen was as cool as ever though). Haven't seen the last incarnation although there is a review for it on my site.
Getting back to the subject at hand, perhaps the Darko sequel will also show that the Darko family are from the planet Geist. Or maybe the daughter ends up in a town overrun by Aliens (TM)...or maybe redneck cannibals...or or Radioactive cannibals...or maybe she's attacked in her dreams by a murdered child molester...or maybe she and her pals spend a night at Crystal Lake...or maybe she finds an enigmatic puzzle box that unlocks a gateway to hell...