Donnie Darko has been around for over 15 years, since just about the turn of the millennium. Now, there's talks of a sequel, because the world in 2017 seems just bizarre enough to put us all in the right mindset.
The wild, sci-fi mindfuck that is Donnie Darko just was reissued with extra features and new restoration, and in a recent interview with hmv.com, writer/director Richard Kelly explained that he believes there's "something much bigger and more ambitious" to create within the Darko world:
"I think there's something much bigger and more ambitious to do in that universe. It's big and expensive and I think there's time to get to that. I want to make sure we've got the budget to do it justice and not to compromise anything. Another story in this world needs resources and we need to have that in place. I need to get my next film out of the gate and then we can go back and look at it."
He added that the new restoration was "good timing":
"I've wanted to do a proper restoration for a long time and so when I finally got financing for that, it happened to be the 15th anniversary of the movie and we had a new distribution deal in place. So it was good timing to go back and restore the film to its original promise, the whole experience has been a real thrill."
It would certainly be good timing for a sequel now, considering we live in a very, very mad world.
(H/T hmv.com)
