After breaking by with cult traditional “Donnie Darko,” filmmaker Richard Kelly noticed his profession go off the rails considerably with “Southland Tales”.
Dwayne Johnson, Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Mandy Moore and Justin Timberlake starred within the Los Angeles-set satire which premiered a 160-minute tough lower eighteen years in the past at Cannes to scathing evaluations.
The $17 million-budget movie was subsequently edited right down to 144 minutes. It opened in November that yr to divided evaluations and didn’t even crack the $400,000 box-office mark.
That stated, the movie has since gained a cult following, and Kelly himself has no plans to let it go. He just lately revealed that he needs to make a prequel.
Talking with Interview Journal (by way of World of Reel), Kelly says he has a completed script that’s able to movie and can cowl the primary three chapters of his six-chapter saga (the 2006 movie lined the final three chapters):
“‘Southland Tales; continues to be unfinished. I’m nonetheless beating the drum to try to do this at some point. I joked that I’m going to be within the Academy outdated of us house ending ‘Southland Tales’ […] That’s a giant difficult factor and it includes cash and a variety of forged members. I’ve additionally been ready for the know-how to catch up by way of licensing […] I’m hoping to broaden and notice the total six chapters and the graphic novel. We’ll see. I’m going to maintain banging the drum.”
Kelly, who was solely 26 when “Donnie Darko” was launched, subsequently has solely made one different movie – 2009’s “The Field”. Since then he’s tried to get extra made however has at all times been hitting “roadblocks and obstacles… I want I might have made extra movies, however I’m actually enthusiastic about what the long run holds.”