Richard Kelly

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James Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975) is an American film director and writer, who wrote and directed the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.

Early life

Kelly was born James Richard Kelly in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly. He grew up in Midlothian, Virginia, where he attended Midlothian High School and graduated in 1993. When he was a child, his father worked for NASA on the Mars Viking Lander program. He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He made two short films at USC, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.

Kelly spoke of viewing the film Brazil with author Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life:

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Film career

Donnie Darko (2001) was his first film and was nominated for 21 awards, 11 of which included a nomination for a Saturn Award. The film debuted at number two on Empire magazine's list of the top independent films of all time, behind Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.

Kelly wrote the screenplay for Domino, a Tony Scott-directed film. "It was a wonderful journey," Kelly said. For Tony Scott, I wrote it. That was Tony Scott's personal project, which involved eight years of assisting Domino Harvey, a close friend of his and almost identical to him. She had spent years trying to tell her story, and so it was an honor for me to work with Tony and write the script for him, as well as designing this elaborate puzzle for him to tell her about her life. So it was just a privilege."

Kelly has written several scripts that have yet to be published, among which are adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle and Louis Sachar's Holes.

Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann Smith, Kevin Smith, and Miranda Richardson's fourth film, Southland Tales, was released on November 16, 2007, a rough cut of which screened in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Darko Entertainment, Kelly's production firm, announced that it was directing director Bob Gosse's adaptation of the bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell in 2008. Tucker Maxwell, the book's author, expanded on Kelly's role in the process on his website.

After the unveiling of The Box, he said he was working on a "set" in Manhattan in the year 2014. We'd like to film the film in 3-D, and part of it would be shot using full CGI motion capture." In 2011, he revealed that he was writing and directing Corpus Christi, a Texas-set film that would be produced by Eli Roth. Due to budget and casting difficulties, the project was cancelled. Kelly said that instead of focusing on a true-crime drama titled Amicus, which was supposed to star James Gandolfini; however, the film went unmade following the actor's death in 2013.

Kelly said in a popMatters magazine interview in 2017, "I'm open to doing something much bigger and more exciting that could be a new novel." I have a lot of stuff that I'm working on, and it's exciting and costly, so we'll see what happens." "I had nothing to do with it," S. Darko Kelly said in reference to the 2009 Donnie Darko sequel. And I hate it when people try to blame me or hold me accountable for it because I had no [involvement]. I don't know the Donnie Darko franchise's basic rights. When I was 24 years old, I had to relinquish them. I hate when people ask me about it because I've never seen it and I certainly will not, so don't tell me about the sequel."

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