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He took an early idea of a jet engine falling onto a house with no one knowing its origin and built the story around it.

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Marcus Stern, associate director of the American Repertory Theater, directed a stage adaptation of Donnie Darko at the Zero Arrow Theatre, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fall of 2007. Kelly said the film was not "attractive to people in that emotional, very deeply traumatizing chapter in our history". The long shots at the school with "Head Over Heels" playing angered the production and line managers at first, who thought it was "an indulgent music video" that lacked dialogue and did nothing to advance the story. Poster had Kelly dissect the script for him at their initial meeting: "We read every word, every sentence, every page, every scene in the movie. The driver turns out to be Elizabeth's boyfriend, Frank Anderson, wearing the same rabbit costume from Donnie's visions.Kelly used this to develop an initial idea of a jet engine falling onto a house and no one could determine its origin. Sparkle Motion's performance scene was one of the more difficult shots for Poster, who used smoke to give the appearance that light is there and to achieve silhouettes of the girls on stage.

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Filming was scheduled to start in one month, during which Kelly worked with Gyllenhaal to amend parts of his dialogue. The liquid spears that emerge from people's torsos are reminiscent of the water tentacle in The Abyss (1989), and can be seen as a representation of a character's psyche. The soundtrack features a cover of " Mad World" by Tears for Fears by American musicians Gary Jules and Michael Andrews, which went to No. Kelly got the idea from the on-screen chalkboard that American football commentator John Madden to illustrate the movements of the players during a replay. Donnie firing a gun became one of Kelly's biggest problems while finding a distributor, as the Columbine High School massacre from 1999 raised concerns of the film promoting teenage suicide.Kelly was adamant to set the film in 1988, thinking it would be fresh to explore the era and depict a society that he had not seen in a film before. In 2017, Kelly revealed that he had ideas for a new sequel that is "much bigger and more ambitious" than the original.

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The New York Times honed in on the 1980s coming-of-age story aspect by observing the influence of John Hughes, noting the "ineffectual" adults and the fact that Donnie's "suffering is a way to make him more sensitive". The text expands on the philosophical and scientific concepts much of the film's plot revolves around, and has been seen as a way to understand the film better than from its theatrical release. Andrew Johnson cited the film in Us Weekly, as one of the outstanding films at Sundance in 2001, describing it as "a heady blend of science fiction, spirituality, and teen angst". A guaranteed original British Quad movie poster from 2016 for Richard Kelly's cult 2001 dark sci-fi thriller "Donnie Darko", starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary McDonnell, Patrick Swayze and Seth Rogan.The film was publicised at the Sundance Film Festival as being the first to feature significant digital effects. Early on Kelly made a promise to Sam Bauer that he would edit his first feature film when he had the opportunity, but Pandora Cinema disagreed with the choice initially. Development began in late 1997 when Kelly had graduated from film school and started writing scripts. Early on Vince Vaughn was offered the role of Donnie, but he turned it down as he felt he was too old for the part. However, he could not figure out how to make the story work in such a setting and retained the original setting.

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In April 2021, Arrow Films released a two-disc Ultra HD Blu-ray box set containing both cuts in 4K resolution restorations from the original negatives, supervised by Kelly and Poster. Cunningham is arrested, and Kitty, who wishes to testify in his defense, asks Rose to chaperone their daughters' dance troupe on its trip to Los Angeles. There, he watches as the plane carrying Rose and the dance troupe home from Los Angeles gets caught in the vortex's wake, which violently rips off one of its engines, and sends it back in time. The film premiered on January 19, 2001, at the Sundance Film Festival, followed by a limited theatrical release on October 26.Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Set in October 1988, the film follows Donnie Darko, an emotionally troubled teenager who inadvertently escapes a bizarre accident by sleepwalking. The first draft was between 145–150 pages; Kelly did not change what he had initially written as he was aware that stopping to review it would have caused him to second guess himself. The film was nominated for "Best Film" at the Sitges Film Festival and for the "Grand Jury Prize" at the Sundance Film Festival. The ongoing commercial actors strike had created a shortage of work, so additional actors and crew members willing to work for scale were hired for the film.