http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDailyArticle.aspx?intStoryID=38664&Category=&loc=interstitialskip

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"UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights. Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son Of Rambow, Gossip Girl), Briana Evigan (Step Up 2) and Justin Chatwin (Dragon Ball). Ash Shah's Silver Nitrate and Newmarket Capital are producing. Los Angeles-based Chris Fisher, who previously made Nightstalker and Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, will direct. The budget is pegged around $10m. The story picks up seven years after the first film (and Donnie's death) when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions. Fisher said in a statement: "I am a great admirer of Richard Kelly's film and hope to create a similar world of blurred fantasy and reality." Producers have spoken to Richard Kelly about the project but he is not involved in any official capacity at this stage. Simon Crowe of Velvet Octopus added: "I think there is a new generation of cinema-goers who will be very excited to see this film." Crowe quipped to ScreenDaily: "Donnie's not in [the new film] but there are meteorites and rabbits." The project starts shooting May 18. Two other new projects that Velvet Octopus are selling in Cannes are Sam's Story and Garfield's Fun Fest. Sam's Story, directed by Miriam Kruishoop, will star Neve Campbell and Gabriel Macht (soon to appear as Frank Miller's The Spirit) in the story of a party girl who grows up and falls in love with a single dad. The UK/Nethlerlands co-production is produced by Black Book's San Fu Maltha with Molly Hassell. It will shoot this summer. Garfield's Fun Fest is a continuation of the cartoon cat adventures, this time full CG animated (not a live-action combination as with the recent Fox hits). The US/Korean production from The Animation Picture Co. is directed by Mark Dippe and Kyung Ho Lee. Jim Davis wrote the script with the Altiere Bros. The voice cast features Frank Welker. Velvet Octopus' Cannes sales slate also includes UK genre film Cockneys vs Zombies, Demian Lichtenstein's $25m Relentless 3D starring Karl Urban, animated projects The Legend Of Spyro and Outback 3D, Gabor Csupo's The Secret Of Moonacre (now in post) and Emily Young's Veronika Decides To Die starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (which starts shooting May 12). "

ahaha, this might be as good as Southland Tales even without Kelly.

5/12/2008 12:59:36 PM

a sequel?

does not compute

5/12/2008 1:03:14 PM

ugh, I have no idea how this could possibly work

5/12/2008 1:05:52 PM

lawls. i actually enjoyed this movie when I first saw it (of course I admit it was EXTREMELY overrated) however theres no way a sequel is a good idea.

5/12/2008 1:06:35 PM

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"Cockneys vs Zombies"

!!!

5/12/2008 1:13:58 PM

^seconded

^^seconded

5/12/2008 1:29:39 PM

just shut up and stop debating this

5/12/2008 2:10:35 PM

nobody's debating anything

all I see is a bunch of people going "LOL"

5/12/2008 2:20:14 PM

heh yea, i dont think anyone has really had a differing opinion yet.

5/12/2008 2:21:07 PM

CHUT UP!

5/12/2008 3:26:56 PM

GO BACK TO CHINA, BITCH

5/12/2008 3:58:32 PM

So I guess Patrick Swayze isn't gonna be in this one.

5/12/2008 4:28:59 PM

All I can really say to this thread is that the dreams where I'm dying are the best I've ever had. The creeping melancholy of inescapable destiny washes over the mathman as he ponders his existence fate and the meaning of it all... well not really but that movie was epic.

5/12/2008 5:43:10 PM

Okay, so what if this one is somehow as good as the first? Will it be the most underrated movie ever?

5/12/2008 6:15:36 PM

no, that would make it the most overrated movie ever

5/12/2008 6:23:18 PM

oh great...this is gonna totally ruin the first movie...gg you stupid fucking jews behind 20th century fox

5/12/2008 6:24:11 PM

In other Richard Kelly news, Pitchfork just posted that the Arcade Fire is scoring Kelly's new film The Box.

5/12/2008 6:31:50 PM

I maintain even to this day that nobody can coherently explain what the fuck Donnie Darko was about.

5/12/2008 6:33:34 PM

It was about 113 minutes long.

And dumb.

5/12/2008 7:41:54 PM

whatsafuckass?

5/12/2008 7:49:45 PM

so Jake isn't even in this one?

thats totally worthless

5/12/2008 7:58:29 PM

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"I maintain even to this day that nobody can coherently explain what the fuck Donnie Darko was about."

For film class I wrote a paper on it because it was the only movie I had on the teachers list of "acceptable movies" that our house actually owned(and of course this was at 2am the day the paper is due).

The paper made no sense, and was complete garbage, but I got an A. I came up with my version of what it was about, doesn't mean it was right.

Oh, and this movie will be crap. There is no way it will be underrated, it can only be a let down.

5/12/2008 7:59:20 PM

straight to dvd

5/12/2008 9:05:36 PM

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"I maintain even to this day that nobody can coherently explain what the fuck Donnie Darko was about."

donnie is jesus. the movie is a remake of the last temptation of christ set in the 80s. instead of having the devil, the writers got high and made up the wormhole/time travel stuff to take his place.

5/13/2008 2:04:48 AM

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"Arcade Fire Scoring Donnie Darko Dude's New Movie Two things writer/director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko, Southland Tales) wants you to know: 1. He has nothing to do with that Donnie Darko sequel people have been talking about. 2. He is currently editing his new movie The Box, a thriller starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. "We're starting to work with a very famous band who is honoring us with being the first filmmakers they've ever scored a film with." One thing Kelly doesn't want you to know: 1. Who that band is. Well, thank goodness for the website of producer/engineer Markus Dravs, who has worked with Brian Eno, Coldplay, Björk, Depeche Mode, and others. Under the heading "currently working on," it says, ".... having finished Coldplay's forthcoming album VivaLaVida - now off to Canada to work with Arcade Fire on a Sound-track for the forth coming Richard Kelly film....." Sweet! This is gonna rule. Thanks to Jonah Moulin for the tip!"

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/50594-arcade-fire-scoring-idonnie-darkoi-dudes-new-movie

5/13/2008 9:14:58 AM

odd, but interesting... milking that cow till it dies i see

5/13/2008 11:40:33 AM

^i assume you're refering to S. Darko, not the thing about arcade fire scoring the other movie.

^^as lame as cameron diaz is, i am interested in this movie. it will entirely depend on the trailer for me.

5/13/2008 5:21:58 PM