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Director Richard Kelly’s follow up to Donnie Darko is... Footage Included
Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales
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Enough Easter related babble on to some cinema news. JD was over at Writer/Director Richard Kelly's My Space Account this morning and there was an updated report that may interest readers.
After being stuck in post production limbo for about a year, It seems his follow up to the revolutionary Donnie Darko titled Southland Tales may finally get to see the light of day.
Rumour have been circulating that preview screenings for the film went badly, despite footage below showing that it did fine at Canne last year. Audience members supposedly complained that they found the plot indecipherable and did not understand what they saw. (Sounds promising, I heard the same reaction to darko at early screenings)
The result was that the producers Sony, wouldn’t shell out the cash for some extra FX and since then the wheels of time have just kept spinning. Now they have finally sucumbed and will give Kelly the funds to finish his second feature.
From what I’ve read, the genre bending, blending and breeding Southland Tales has a multi tiered plot line that takes place over July 4th weekend 2008, a now pre-apocalyptic L.A future.
Centring around a memory starved action star (the Rock), a porn ho (Sarah Michelle Gellar) and a police officer (Sean William Scott) that get wrapped up in a massive global conspiracy right in the middle of a heat wave.
“The story is set in a futuristic Los Angeles as it teeters on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.” - Richard Kelly
The Director on set
Could have been fun but the cast just plain frightens, none of them have done anything Mr Doe can sit through. Though, it does appear that their moronic presence is intentional to add comedy to the philosophical and hypothetical dialogue. Plus this man maanaged to cast Patrick Swayze and Drew Barrymore in surprisingly appropriate parts.
Johnny was such a big fan of the Writer/Directors Debut feature Donnie Darko and really admires the cinematic style and flair that he brings to his ambiguous storytelling. He won’t give up hope just yet because these clips do actually make him laugh and hopefully in context they may inspire the imagination.
Please check out the entertaining official Southland Tales site and an unofficial fan site www.richard-kelly.net
An amusing clip where porn stars are now like Fox News panellists attempting to intellectualising about abortion, war, disease and other fun topics.
Here is a scene where the action star and the porn star try to solve the riddles of the end of the world.
Canne audience reaction at the end of the films Premiere last year
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The cast is truly the stuff of bad horror, but thos eclips did give me a giggle in a laugh at them way and maybe thats what hes going for?
I dont mind a bit of confusion as long as there is a final string that unravels coherently.
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I loved Donny Darko. Kelly seems to have a knack for using very orthodox mainstream actors in unorthodox ways.
Been waiting on this one a long time.
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Sometimes actors are not allowed to shine due to dodgy scripts. Someone like Kelly knows what he's doing - I'm pretty sure that the casting will likely prove to be a revelation.
Brad Pitt in '12 Monkeys', anyone?
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Who knows when it will finally reach us in Oz though probably 2009 if I know our distribution methods.
Your Welcome Tracy...they do amuse in that pamela Anderson mauled by a shark kinda way
Hi Yoda,
I dont know at least Pitt had made things i could sit through before Monkeys..eg: Kalifornia...
As I said it looks like their moronic pressence is meant to make us laugh at them, not with them so it may yet work having the Rock and Buffy together....Like all here I still hold out hope because Kelly's debut was impressive.
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The Rock was great in Be Cool, and Sean William Scott has the potential to be a fun actor (I loved 'Evolution')
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I agree it could go either way, but Im basing my hopes purely on the Writer/Director.
I liked the Rock when he did his camp shtick on Saturday Night Live with the Ladies Man, but Be Cool got old fast. The film itself was a huge let down too though I did like Get Shorty.
Evolution is a guilty pleasure but Sean William annoyed the shit out of me in it, if I could fast forward past him I would.
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the cast is very scary!
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The Canne clip was to show that the film wasn't blasted everywhere, despite word on the street...so you didnt miss anything...
As for the cast, it chills me right down to my celluloid sinew!
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