Richard Kelly, director of Donnie Darko, has signed on to direct Corpus Christi, with Eli Roth, Sean McKittrick, and Kelly set to produce. The script, written by Kelly, is centered on a mentally unstable veteran of the Iraq war who befriends a supermarket chain owner in Texas. Darko Entertainment, Kelly’s production company, is also behind the upcoming adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Corpus Christi will be Kelly’s fourth full-length feature.
Feb 17
2011
06:59 PM ET
'Donnie Darko' director Richard Kelly to helm 'Corpus Christi'
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Whooo-hooo!!!!! I don’t know anything about what this movie will be about, but I don’t care, because it is called Corpus Christi and anything that takes place in a Texas town that I have visited is awesome to me!!! I am actually going to Corpus Christi in a month!!! They better actually film the movie in Corpus Christi b/c if they don’t then that is just dumb!
Lets hope it comes out better than “The Box”. . .
“The Box” was really good. “Southland Tales”, on the other hand, was utter sh*te!
Let me guess. The “mentally unstable” veteran actually turns out to be in contact with a highly advanced race of aliens from the future dressed like bunnies wrapped in tinfoil, who appear to him in his dreams and present him with complicated-looking and incomprehensible manuals about how all of human history is actually something that was invented by Sumerian cockroaches in prehistoric times and implanted into our brains. Then one day while walking through the aisles of a supermarket owned by his friend, he comes across a giant shimmery water tunnel portal in the detergent aisle and steps inside, only to discover that this causes him to get crushed by a giant jet airplane engine while a Gary Lucas cover of a Tears For Fears song wails mournfully on the soundtrack. Aaaaaand…roll credits, while the audience says “hunh?” and shuffles silently toward the theater exits.
this is totally on the money
Spot on, my friend, spot on. Thank you for that laugh.
is the rabbit going to be in this!!??
Richard Kelly wastes his considerable talent like few people. A true wunderkind, who wrote and directed “Donnie Darko” when he was a mere pup, he has seen been lost up his own a$$ making terrible films from his incomprehensible scripts. When I worked at a production company, I read a lot of Kelly’s work — including his bizarre take on “Hole,” his ridiculous draft of “Knowing” and his then-unproduced “Domino” script. It was like something a guy who fried his brain on LSD might have written. “Darko” was so well-received that no one tells this guy his scripts are ludicrous. If only he had a dose of reality about his screenwriting skills.
I completly disagree with Jon. Donnie Darko is an amazing film. When you create a film with an original idea any where near as deep as Darko then please GET@ME
As for the new movie I can’t wait to see what RK has up his sleeve!! Not to mention Eli Roth too? Aw man, sounds entertaining
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