In an in-depth interview with Bloody Disgusting about the Director's Cut of "Donnie Darko", Director Richard Kelly touched upon a lot of the projects he has been tied too in coming months:
"Someone asked a question about Cat's Cradle and he said he has written an adaptation and that a script is there, but he'd much rather call it Ice Nine if it's ever made because it is an adaptation. He looks at the book as an inadaptable novel, which is why it wouldnt be fair to call it Cats Cradle. He is working on it thought with Leonardo DiCaprio and his company and would like to direct it.
"Next up is Southland Tales in September, which he already started shooting this summer. "It's a big epic film- a comedy, I wanted to do something as far different as Donnie Darko as possible. I feel like Ive been talking about this film for so long and Im happy to do it, but at the same time I really want to make something else that its going on the total end of the spectrum of the conversation." So I asked does this mean that Knowing, the time capsule film will be put on the back burner? He said, "it's another one I spent a year on and it was ready to go." But there were financial problems and its caused problems, but he really wants to direct the film, even though he did not write the script. They might not want to wait for him, but he wants to do it. He says the ending is tricky and thats the hard part. "Ultimately it wasn't meant to be the second film I do, because maybe it was a bit to thematically like Darko and maybe I would have been accused of just trying to repeat myself a little too much. That's one thing I dont want to do in my career- I want to try and do something completely different in each film. But I also just want to make a lot of comedies. I think that is the most fun and most satisfying if you can make people laugh."
For the full interview, click here.
Thanks to 'Brad'.
