S. Darko

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Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko starts shooting May 18
Source: Screen Daily

UK-based sales company Velvet Octopus will be launching sales in Cannes for S. Darko, billed as the sequel to the 2001 cult hit Donnie Darko. Fox has already taken North American rights.

Daviegh Chase reprises her role as Donnie's younger sister. The cast for S. Darko also includes Ed Westwick (Son Of Rambow, Gossip Girl), Briana Evigan (Step Up 2) and Justin Chatwin (Dragon Ball).

Ash Shah's Silver Nitrate and Newmarket Capital are producing. Los Angeles-based Chris Fisher, who previously made Nightstalker and Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, will direct. The budget is pegged around $10m.

The story picks up seven years after the first film (and Donnie's death) when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.

Fisher said in a statement: "I am a great admirer of Richard Kelly's film and hope to create a similar world of blurred fantasy and reality."

Producers have spoken to Richard Kelly about the project but he is not involved in any official capacity at this stage.

Simon Crowe of Velvet Octopus added: "I think there is a new generation of cinema-goers who will be very excited to see this film."

Crowe quipped to ScreenDaily: "Donnie's not in [the new film] but there are meteorites and rabbits."

The project starts shooting May 18.

Two other new projects that Velvet Octopus are selling in Cannes are Sam's Story and Garfield's Fun Fest.

Sam's Story, directed by Miriam Kruishoop, will star Neve Campbell and Gabriel Macht (soon to appear as Frank Miller's The Spirit) in the story of a party girl who grows up and falls in love with a single dad. The UK/Nethlerlands co-production is produced by Black Book's San Fu Maltha with Molly Hassell. It will shoot this summer.

Garfield's Fun Fest is a continuation of the cartoon cat adventures, this time full CG animated (not a live-action combination as with the recent Fox hits). The US/Korean production from The Animation Picture Co. is directed by Mark Dippe and Kyung Ho Lee. Jim Davis wrote the script with the Altiere Bros. The voice cast features Frank Welker.

Velvet Octopus' Cannes sales slate also includes UK genre film Cockneys vs Zombies, Demian Lichtenstein's $25m Relentless 3D starring Karl Urban, animated projects The Legend Of Spyro and Outback 3D, Gabor Csupo's The Secret Of Moonacre (now in post) and Emily Young's Veronika Decides To Die starring Sarah Michelle Gellar (which starts shooting May 12).

[Kal]

This is one of the stupidest sequels ever... why? why? WHY?

The first one tanked and it had a great cast, what do they expect will happen with this one? At least they should have made it before Southland Tales came out, so that Kelly/Darko fans would have been curious, but now people fucking hate his guts.

I DONT FUCKING GET IT!

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Teaser Trailer



Donnie Darko Sequel Goes Direct To DVD
Source: Slash Film

Do you remember S. Darko, the Donnie Darko spin-off film we wrote about a while back? You know, the one which follows Donnie's sister and features no involvement from the original director Richard Kelly? Yeah, that one. The good news is that the film will not play theatrically and will instead go direct-to-dvd on April 28th from MGM's home entertainment. Film School Rejects reports that the trailer for the film will be screened at the New York Comic Con this weekend (where I assume, and hope, fans will express their outrage by "booing" loudly). When the trailer is released online, we will attempt to do the same in text form (if possible).

The official plot synopsis follows:

"Samantha Darko (Daveigh Chase) and her rebellious best friend Corey Richardson (Briana Evigan) leave on a cross-country road trip to Los Angeles in an attempt to 'make it big'. Their dreams are cut short when their water pump blows outside of a tiny Utah town. Unable to leave until their car is fixed, Sam and Corey are stranded with the locals until their car's fixed. Sam and Corey are less than thrilled at the delay, and when an unexplained meteorite crash-lands in town that night, it soon becomes clear that there is much more at play than just a chance breakdown. Plagued by bizarre hallucinatory dreams warning her of the universe's imminent end, as well as grief over her own loss of family, Sam must face the demons she had fled back at home. Aided by the unlikely town locals, Sam learns the true meaning of family and friendship, and in doing so, saves only herself."

[pete]

that can't be the real trailer!

[Kal]

that can't be the real trailer!

No footage whatsoever of the new film and confusing people in thinking the little girl is still little? wtf. This was such a bad idea.

[Pas]

that can't be the real trailer!

98 views and some random poster, I'm with you there this is a fake.

[Pas]

last night I was drunk and saw this thread and thought it was about

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[picolas]

vomit. everywhere.

speaking of which has anyone seen the blu-ray cover? awesome alternate poster.

[nix]

That is a fucking lovely cover.

Too bad it's the shitty (hack) director's cut.

[john]

That is a fucking lovely cover.

Too bad it's the shitty (hack) director's cut.

It's got both cuts... but, if you already own it on DVD, I suggest skipping it. I bought it last week and the audio and video quality, in comparison to the DVD, is pretty negligible.

It was totally that cover that got me to buy it again, though.