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Title: S. Darko
Post by: xanque on February 08, 2009, 12:05:08 am: Apparently there is going to be a sequel to Donnie Darko.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1231277/

The movie follows Samantha, Donnie's little sister. I'd post the trailer, but all it shows are clips from the first movie and it's not really worth watching.

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S. Darko takes place in the summer of 1995, seven years after the original film. It follows Donnie Darko's younger sister, Samantha (Daveigh Chase), who, in the wake of his death, has found herself at age 17 with a broken family, mired in feelings of insignificance. She and her best friend Corey (Evigan) set off on a road trip to Hollywood in a bid to 'make it big', but their journey is cut short when their car breaks down unexpectedly, leaving them stranded in a small desert town. When a meteorite happens to crash-land nearby, Samantha is plagued by bizarre visions telling of the universe's end and it appears that their breakdown was part of some grander plan. When she finds out she was actually adopted by the Darkos, and that she is in no way related to Donnie, she must face her own demons and, in doing so, save the world and herself.
Source: http://io9.com/5145837/donnie-darko-sequel-will-see-the-light-of-day

It's going to be a direct-to-DVD release, so it's not sounding very promising.

I'm kind of surprised there would be a sequel to Donnie Darko. I loved the movie when I saw it the first few times, but that was when I was 17. The last time I watched it was about a month ago and it was... dumb. It's really an incoherent mess of a movie, and it's no wonder Southland Tales was so awful.

Is Richard Kelly doomed to never have a wide theater release of his movies?
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Lyndon on February 08, 2009, 12:16:19 am: I think there was already a topic on this. I'm too lazy to search for it though.

And yeah, it looks like shit.

p.s. Richard Kelly isn't making this
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Ryan on February 08, 2009, 12:22:36 am: this looks terrible. i hated donnie darko
Title: S. Darko
Post by: xanque on February 08, 2009, 12:25:16 am: Quote from: Lyndon on February 08, 2009, 12:16:19 am
I think there was already a topic on this. I'm too lazy to search for it though.

And yeah, it looks like shit.

p.s. Richard Kelly isn't making this
Ah, didn't catch that when I was looking at IMDB. I just assumed he had something to do with the movie. It doesn't look like he does.

I think this will blow.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Ragnar on February 08, 2009, 12:30:03 am: S. Darko sounds like a JRPG boss where they had to concatenate the name to fit into English letters/memory constraints
Title: S. Darko
Post by: headphonics on February 08, 2009, 03:05:49 am: i like donnie darko a lot if you take it at FACE VALUE and do not expect it to not be a convoluted mess but yeah this looks like garbage. dam tho.....sam got HoT
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on February 08, 2009, 03:09:16 am: it has nothing to do with the original btw. like at all apparently. they aren't allowed to reference the movie events.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Hempknight on February 10, 2009, 10:46:04 am: Kelly sold the rights to a sequel away in order to score the last hundred large he needed for printing Southland Tales. It will be ridiculously bad, even among other direct to dvd titles.

Ugh.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Mongoloid on February 10, 2009, 10:51:26 am: I hope Seth Rogen is in it.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: xanque on February 10, 2009, 01:11:25 pm: Southland Tales seemed like it would have been a great movie if it were rearranged and some scenes cut out. It was trying to cover so much in such a short time that nothing in it really meant anything.

Also if it had been a straight up action movie musical, it would have been awesome.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: pburn on February 21, 2009, 09:04:57 pm: http://www.sdarko.com/

Trailer is out.

I'm surprised, this looks way better than I expected, more so than Butterfly Effect 2 and American Psycho 2. I'm not saying this will be good, but rather that it looks like they're putting a shitload of effort into making it look like the original.

I'll give this a chance just for fun.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Artis Leon Ivey Jr on February 21, 2009, 09:20:30 pm: Quote from: Psyburn on February 21, 2009, 09:04:57 pm
I'm surprised, this looks way better than I expected,

I did not expect anything better than an episode of smallville and remain pleasantly unsurprised.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Kaworu on February 21, 2009, 09:47:52 pm: I always compared donnie darko to The OC but now people are telling me I look like someone from it so I've been looking for a replacement teen series to call it. Thanks.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Farren on February 21, 2009, 10:17:15 pm: I watched Donnie Darko for the first time a week ago and it was a decent movie. Not really GOOD or anything but it was pretty interesting.

It looks like they're trying to take the same concept from the first movie and turn it into an actual supernatural story or some shit. But that might just be hallucinations or whatever like Donnie had, doesn't seem that way though.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Mongoloid on February 21, 2009, 11:52:09 pm: This makes an episode of Smallville look like an oscar nominee. When the trailer started and they had some of the visuals from the old it almost looked similar, but that went away quickly. Here's to hoping they throw all subtlety out the window and just bombard you with Jesus the whole movie.
Title: S. Darko
Post by: Lyndon on February 22, 2009, 02:31:16 am: I loled when I saw that they have used another Frank-like character at the end
Title: S. Darko
Post by: ShortE18 on March 01, 2009, 02:15:32 am: thats stupid :mad: