'Donnie Darko' Director Investigated Over 'Terrorism Links'

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'Darko' Director Investigated Over 'Terrorism Links'

"Donnie Darko" director Richard Kelly could be forced to miss the Cannes Film Festival because his passport is being reviewed by the U.S. government.

Homeland Security is investigating 31-year-old Kelly, reportedly because there is a James Kelly on the terrorist watch list.

Fearing he will be unable to attend the premiere of his new movie, "Southland Tales," at Cannes later this month, Kelly has contacted a U.S. senator and has recruited his mother to hunt out documents to help him prove his American citizenship.

The Virginia-born writer/director fears the issue could be connected to the plot of his new movie, which is in part about security measures taken by the U.S. government following Sept. 11.

He says, "The paranoid conspiracy freak inside me is starting to think this has something to do with the film."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=7&entry_id=5079

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

they should ask him if he's a communist too

and then burn him at the stake

― Bob Dylan’s harmonica can make it hard for office workers to concentrate. (Jody , Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

PR stunt

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

if so it's a fucking great PR stunt

― Bob Dylan’s harmonica can make it hard for office workers to concentrate. (Jody , Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm voting for Dukakis.

― The Notorious ESTEBAN BUTTEZ (ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!!!), Thursday, 11 May 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

you would

― lf (lfam), Thursday, 11 May 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Where're your rabbit friends NOW?"

― Doktor Faustus (noodle vague), Thursday, 11 May 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

He advocates crashing (parts of) planes into civilians though!

― S- (sgh), Friday, 12 May 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Homeland Security is investigating 31-year-old [Richard] Kelly, reportedly because there is a James Kelly on the terrorist watch list.

That's quite the link there, with the last name and everything.

― sleep (sleep), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, go ahead, be flip. But have you never heard of the notorious Kelly Gang?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Friday, 12 May 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

What about James A. Kelly, Dubya's assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs?

― Hello Sunshine (Hello Sunshine), Friday, 12 May 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

He's the guy on the terrorist watch list.

― Kenneth Anger Management (noodle vague), Friday, 12 May 2006 08:21 (nineteen years ago)

Homeland Security is such a fuck.
Man all I have to say or read about these days is either motherfucking federal agencies blowing the worst kind of tax waste out of every conceivable orifice and killing the american dream all the time or Nintendo. Lame. What else is going on? I'm not really interested in pubescent pregnancies or that scandal in France.

― TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

There's the Da Vinci Code film. (This is not an improvement of anything.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 12 May 2006 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well.. the weather's been getting nice.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Monkeys?

― beanz (beanz), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

How egotistical do you have to be to think this is because of your "Donnie Darko" follow-up?

― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 12 May 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

how egotistical do you have to be to be a film director?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

i could see how it would happen: feds start paying attention to the movie because it's about terror and whatnot (they're just generally interested in the topic), from there his name leaks into a few databases, their data-mining software calls him up because he's in those databases and has traveled somewhere weird and has a similar name as someone who's on some other list and boom, he's being investigated.

total information awareness at work!

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

hell, sen. ted kennedy's name showed up on a terrorist watchlist a while back, so who knows?

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 12 May 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe Kelly got fingered because noted cranky leftist Jeanane Garafolo is in the cast.
Guilt by association.

More likely, they just wanted an in with The Rock.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Friday, 12 May 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

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