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Ladies and Gentlemen: Richard Kelly
I’m sure you know of his work, if not, then I feel obligated to do my best James Lipton impersonation to honor this particular writer/director who is on the verge of gaining long overdue recognition as a truly gifted filmmaker for the re-release of a movie he made only 3 years ago at the age of 26.
If you don’t know which movie I’m talking about, allow me to refresh your memory. Richard Kelly wrote and directed a beautiful movie entitled Donnie Darko, originally released in 2001.
It’s been speculated that Donnie Darko had the potential to gain more success had the timing of its release been just a little earlier or much later, like now. Primarily, because of its original release date falling not too far from 9/11 and the airplane incidents that occurred within the movie creating parallelism that if you all remember, caused quite a few other movies with similar tones to bite the dust or be totally re-shot before release. After being released to an unsuspecting audience in a period of hysteria; it only earned $500,000 at the box office. BUT, the film went onto home video and DVD to earn 10 Million dollars. As you know, those kinds of figures tend to have a cult following attached.
Prestigious Film Festivals, like Sundance took immediate recognition of his work, giving the film and its creator the attention they deserved. This summer, Kelly will give audiences a second chance by releasing the director’s cut of Donnie Darko.
With a wonderful cast, beautiful score, great design and cinematography, and excellent directorial structure, it’s hard to believe Richard Kelly would want to make any adjustments, but we’ll all have to wait and see. Richard Kelly is also working on three other movies, Knowing, Southland Tales, and The Box.
…There’s already so much to look forward to :wink:
I’m sure you know of his work, if not, then I feel obligated to do my best James Lipton impersonation to honor this particular writer/director who is on the verge of gaining long overdue recognition as a truly gifted filmmaker for the re-release of a movie he made only 3 years ago at the age of 26.
If you don’t know which movie I’m talking about, allow me to refresh your memory. Richard Kelly wrote and directed a beautiful movie entitled Donnie Darko, originally released in 2001.
It’s been speculated that Donnie Darko had the potential to gain more success had the timing of its release been just a little earlier or much later, like now. Primarily, because of its original release date falling not too far from 9/11 and the airplane incidents that occurred within the movie creating parallelism that if you all remember, caused quite a few other movies with similar tones to bite the dust or be totally re-shot before release. After being released to an unsuspecting audience in a period of hysteria; it only earned $500,000 at the box office. BUT, the film went onto home video and DVD to earn 10 Million dollars. As you know, those kinds of figures tend to have a cult following attached.
Prestigious Film Festivals, like Sundance took immediate recognition of his work, giving the film and its creator the attention they deserved. This summer, Kelly will give audiences a second chance by releasing the director’s cut of Donnie Darko.
With a wonderful cast, beautiful score, great design and cinematography, and excellent directorial structure, it’s hard to believe Richard Kelly would want to make any adjustments, but we’ll all have to wait and see. Richard Kelly is also working on three other movies, Knowing, Southland Tales, and The Box.
…There’s already so much to look forward to :wink:
