Southland Tales

[clerkguy23]

The new movie from Donnie Darko's writer/director Richard Kelly. Sounds like it going to be really cool. The website is a lot like Donnie Darko's but it's not finished yet.

So far the cast includes Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Lee, Janeane Garofalo, Kevin Smith, Tim Blake Nelson, and Amy Poehler. It's supposed to be a Musical/Comedy/Thriller/Drama. I'm really excited. Hopefully it will be amazing.

[MacGuffin]

Johnson lands in Kelly's 'Southland'
Source: Hollywood Reporter

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will star opposite Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar in Richard Kelly's "Southland Tales." Sean McKittrick will produce under the Darko Entertainment banner he co-founded with Kelly, along with Cherry Road Film principals Bo Hyde and Kendall Morgan.

"Southland" is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster.
 
Johnson will star as Boxer Santaros, an action star stricken with amnesia whose life intertwines with Krysta Now (Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and David Clark (Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.

Principal photography is slated to begin Aug. 1 in Los Angeles.

"The film is going to be a strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick," Kelly said in a statement.

The executive producers are Matthew Rhodes and Judd Payne of Persistent Entertainment, Bill Johnson and Jim Seibel of Inferno Distribution and Oliver Hengst of Academy Film Gmbh.

Cherry Road Films is co-financing with Universal Pictures International, Inferno Distribution and Wild Bunch, with Universal distributing in most foreign territories through the UIP banner and Wild Bunch distributing in France, Benelux, Spain and Switzerland. UTA is representing on the domestic front.

Kelly is bringing in key crew he used in "Donnie Darko" for "Southland," including director of photography Steven Poster, production designer Alexander Hammond, costume designer April Ferry and editor Sam Bauer.

Also joining the project is Moby, who will compose the music.

Like he did for "Darko," Kelly is creating an elaborate Web site that will help breathe life into the world he is creating. Also, he is writing six separate 100-page graphic novels that will be released over a six-month period before the film's release.

[SiliasRuby]

I've been following this project for a while and now that I've read this news  I really can't wait. Sarah Michelle Gellar as a adult film star and Seann William Scott as a police officer, count me in.

[modage]

"The film is going to be a strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick," Kelly said in a statement.

haha, i'll bet thats just what studio executives want to hear....

also: if this cant give moby temporary cred again, nothing will.

[Gamblour.]

Website, it's fucked up: http://www.southlandtales.com/

[Pubrick]

Website, it's fucked up: http://www.southlandtales.com/

left is more fun.

[Ultrahip]

nothing happens at either left or right. is my browser effed up or am i?

[Pubrick]

nothing happens at either left or right. is my browser effed up or am i?

left took me to a puzzle which turned into a weird clip upon assembly. right just went to a launching icon that never launched.

[72teeth]

I love the feeling i get when i think of this film. I read the discription and go on the website and it's like waiting for Punch-Drunk Love all over again. That feeling of "What the fuck!!   " while watching those crazy scopitones. And then reading about Bessie and Knowing, it's like "Kelly, Are you Fucking with us Man!!!" Just thinking about all this sets my socks a flame!

[sickfins]

I love the feeling i get when i think of this film. I read the discription and go on the website and it's like waiting for Punch-Drunk Love all over again. That feeling of "What the fuck!!   " while watching those crazy scopitones. And then reading about Bessie and Knowing, it's like "Kelly, Are you Fucking with us Man!!!" Just thinking about all this sets my socks a flame!

are you richard kelly.

[Ultrahip]

Has anyone else listened to 'Three Days' by Jane's Addiction? It's the song with "'Til the shadows and the lights were one", a big ten minute thing that I'll bet ends up in the movie. Should be neato.

[Stefen]

I still haven't finished donnie darko. Watching it is like listening to some band you know you're SUPPOSED to like cause everyone else does. I hate this age frame. I'm gonna call it right now, this Kelly dude is a hack.

[jtm]

finish the movie before making an assumption.

ya hack.

[Ultrahip]

looks like he's getting even more kubrickian.

http://www.richard-kelly.net/news/2005/6-16-2005.html

[SiliasRuby]

Yeah, those pics are pretty nice. This is gonna be one awseome flick....hoping.