anybody know anything the next Richard Kelly movie?

Well, it’s tough to describe the genre of the film. The best way I can describe it is it’s 30% comedy, 30% musical, 30% thriller, and 10% science fiction. And those percentage levels could fluctuate, to some degree, as we finish the final cut of the film. There are musical sequences in the film, but it is not purely a musical. It is just as much a thriller, it is just as much a comedy, and it’s arguably just as much a science fiction film. It’s definitely a genre hybrid but somehow the musical thing got kind of blown out of proportion, and people just printed that it’s a musical. But it’s actually a hybrid of many different kinds of movies. I don’t know what it is about consumer culture but we want to be able to categorize everything.

And the cast is Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Kevin Smith,Jason Lee, Amy Poehler and Tim Blake Nelson????

Huh.

The music that plays in the little teaser thats there now is gorgeous - it sounds like Mike Andrews work again? I'm actually rather looking forwards to this.

There's a trailer for The Box:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/the-box-trailer-no-1/629629612

It looks...okay. Cameron Diaz's southern accent is all over the map, and that "WE HAVE TO SAVE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR SON" bit is just awful, but Frank Langella is nice and creepy.

actually, he seems to say "WE HAVE TO SAVE YOUR SON OR YOUR WIFE IS GONNA DIE"

this shit looks bananas.

how tf are they going to make a whole movie abt this

by having people make creepy faces at the leads for 90 minutes

lolz no "from the director of Southland Tales"?

"From the writer of Domino"

he's really hot, btw:
http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Richard_Kelly/richard_kelly__1_.jpg

today!!!!

seeing this has me a little more optimistic:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=4636

long interview with Richard Kelly about this at AICN.

OK, I actually really dug this despite its many hokey moments / effects. It's not Darko good but it's a huge step up for him. Also, the score is awesome.

I guess it's absurd to complain that Richard Kelly added ambiguity-killing sci-fi explanations for everything and a dude walking through a magic portal, because why would you hire Kelly if you didn't want that?

In his eraserhead remake, it turns out the bed was an incubator from outer space, and that the baby is actually an alien-human hybrid.

there's still a lot of ambiguity, though. just not of the sci-fi variety.

If you're referring to moral ambiguity, like "is it fair for Cameron Diaz to be killed by alien scientists for her southern accent?" I'd say Drag Me To Hell did it better.

late night audience i saw it with was grumbling hardcore (probably over the lack of any genuine horror or even creepiness), but there was a lot of laughter every time the slack-jawed zombies started marching about.

this is supposedly his attempt to make a mainstream genre movie. it doesn't quite sound like he succeeded, which is predictable and also makes me want to see it more than if he had.

but he's probably right about this:

“Until I have a theatrical hit, people aren’t going to keep giving me chances.”

which probably doesn't bode well for him.

well it had a pretty modest budget (25mil) so it's not like an $8 million weekend is a disaster or anything.

For me it worked mostly because it extended the "write what you know" ethos (use of period hometown, characters based on his real-life parents) into the realm of batshit crazy genre movie. It had a sense of warmth even as the twelfth nosebleed made an appearance.

I kind of figured maybe Rodriguez would be the one to make a decent FLCL movie, but after reading that Slant article, I deeply hope Kelly does it instead...

I enjoyed watching The Box, even though it is pretty bad.

Huh.

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118051281

As the Agony Booth said, "Is he remaking Southland Tales?"

didn't really get the box, but the score was a+

i fucking love the box

I need to revisit it. I thought of it a few times while watching the empty man, which reminded me of RK to the same extent that under the silver lake did, just....different aspects of the richard kelly thing

I wonder if the score is ever gonna get released or if there's anyone out there who might know anything about that

thought Donnie Darko, Southland Tales and The Box were all really interesting films, wonder what happened to him, where is he now?

he is apparently working on a screenplay for a southland tales sequel/prequel/amorphous thing idk. i guess we'll see lol

I would love to see something new from him, but it doesn't appear that he will return to making films

It seemed like David Robert Mitchell would inherited his mantle with Under the Silver Lake (2018), which was a pretty great film, but I want to see a follow-up

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