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'''James Richard Kelly''' |
'''James Richard Kelly''' is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He wrote and directed the films ''[[Donnie Darko]]'' (2001), ''[[Southland Tales]]'' (2006), and ''[[The Box (2009 film)|The Box]]'' (2009). |
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==Early life== |
==Early life== |
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Kelly |
Kelly grew up in [[Midlothian, Virginia]], where he attended [[Midlothian High School (Virginia)|Midlothian High School]] and graduated in 1993.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/299369/Richard-Kelly/biography The New York Times] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309225304/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/299369/Richard-Kelly/biography |date=March 9, 2016 }}</ref> When he was a child, his father worked for [[NASA]] on the [[Viking program|Mars Viking Lander]] program. He won a scholarship to the [[University of Southern California]] to study at the [[USC School of Cinematic Arts|USC School of Cinema-Television]] where he was a member of the [[Phi Delta Theta]] fraternity. He made two [[short film]]s at USC, ''The Goodbye Place'' and ''Visceral Matter'', before graduating in 1997.<ref>[http://cinema.usc.edu/alumni/alumni-history/ Notable Alumni, USC School of Cinematic Arts]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224021759/http://cinema.usc.edu/alumni/alumni-history/ |date=February 24, 2008 }}</ref> |
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Kelly spoke of viewing the film [[Brazil (1985 film)|''Brazil'']] with author [[Robert K. Elder]] in an interview for ''[[The Film That Changed My Life]]'': |
Kelly spoke of viewing the film [[Brazil (1985 film)|''Brazil'']] with author [[Robert K. Elder]] in an interview for ''[[The Film That Changed My Life]]'': |
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==Film career== |
==Film career== |
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''[[Donnie Darko]]'' (2001) |
''[[Donnie Darko]]'' (2001) is Kelly's first feature and was nominated for 21 awards, winning eleven. It later made #2 on ''[[Empire (film magazine)|Empire]]'' magazine's list of the 50 greatest independent films of all time, behind [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s ''[[Reservoir Dogs]]''.<ref>[https://www.empireonline.com/features/50greatestindependent/10-1.asp#50independent The 50 Greatest Independent Films], Empire Online {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725032356/http://www.empireonline.com/features/50greatestindependent/10-1.asp#50independent |date=July 25, 2008 }}</ref> |
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In 2005 Kelly wrote the screenplay for the [[Tony Scott]]-directed film, ''[[Domino (2005 film)|Domino]]''. Kelly has said |
In 2005, Kelly wrote the screenplay for the [[Tony Scott]]-directed film, ''[[Domino (2005 film)|Domino]]''. Kelly has said: "That was a wonderful experience. I wrote that for Tony Scott. That was Tony Scott's very personal project that he had spent eight years developing with Domino Harvey, a close friend of his and almost like a daughter to him. He had spent years trying to tell her story and so that for me, it was an honor for me to get to work with Tony and to write that script for him and to design this really elaborate puzzle for him to tell her story. So that was just a privilege."<ref name=D/> |
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Kelly has written numerous scripts that have not been produced, among them adaptations of [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Cat's Cradle]]''<ref>[http://richard-kelly.net/multimedia/scripts/index.html#holes Richard-kelly.net] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310164955/http://richard-kelly.net/multimedia/scripts/index.html#holes |date=March 10, 2008 }}</ref> and [[Louis Sachar]]'s ''[[Holes (novel)|Holes]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://twitter.com/jrichardkelly/status/815269981445308416?lang=en |title=Richard Kelly on Twitter |work=Twitter |access-date=2018- |
Kelly has written numerous scripts that have not been produced, among them adaptations of [[Kurt Vonnegut]]'s ''[[Cat's Cradle]]''<ref>[http://richard-kelly.net/multimedia/scripts/index.html#holes Richard-kelly.net] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080310164955/http://richard-kelly.net/multimedia/scripts/index.html#holes |date=March 10, 2008 }}</ref> and [[Louis Sachar]]'s ''[[Holes (novel)|Holes]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://twitter.com/jrichardkelly/status/815269981445308416?lang=en |title=Richard Kelly on Twitter |work=Twitter |access-date=November 3, 2018 |archive-date=November 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024701/https://twitter.com/jrichardkelly/status/815269981445308416?lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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His fourth film |
His fourth film and second feature, ''[[Southland Tales]]'', a rough cut of which screened in competition at the [[2006 Cannes Film Festival]],<ref name="festival-cannes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4359806/year/2006.html |title=Festival de Cannes: Southland Tales |access-date=December 13, 2009 |work=festival-cannes.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822190216/http://www.festival-cannes.com/en/archives/ficheFilm/id/4359806/year/2006.html |archive-date=August 22, 2011 }}</ref> was released November 16, 2007, and stars [[Dwayne Johnson]], [[Sarah Michelle Gellar]], [[Seann William Scott]], [[Kevin Smith]] and [[Miranda Richardson]]. |
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In 2008, Kelly's production company Darko Entertainment announced that it was producing the adaptation of the bestselling book ''[[I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell]]'' with director [[Bob Gosse]].<ref>{{cite news |
In 2008, Kelly's production company Darko Entertainment announced that it was producing the adaptation of the bestselling book ''[[I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell]]'' with director [[Bob Gosse]].<ref>{{cite news |
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⚫ | }}</ref><ref>[http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/06/06/darko-entertainment-adapting-i-hope-they-serve-beer-in-hell/ FirstShowing.net] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610004107/http://www.firstshowing.net/2008/06/06/darko-entertainment-adapting-i-hope-they-serve-beer-in-hell/ |date=June 10, 2008 }} Darko Entertainment Adapting I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell</ref> The book's author [[Tucker Max]] detailed Kelly's involvement in the process on his blog.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ihopetheyservebeerinhell.com/archives/darko_to_serve.html |title=IHSTBIH Blog Entry: Darko to serve Tucker Max's Beer |date=June 6, 2008 |publisher=ihopetheyservebeerinhell.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828033152/http://ihopetheyservebeerinhell.com/archives/darko_to_serve.html |archive-date=August 28, 2008 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.richard-kelly.net/news/news.php?id=454&from=home Tucker Max shares his opinion of Darko Entertainment] Richard Kelly's homepage {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210050936/http://www.richard-kelly.net/news/news.php?id=454&from=home |date=December 10, 2008 }}</ref> |
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After the release of ''[[The Box (2009 film)|The Box]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17933|title=Video Interviews with the Director and Stars of 'The Box'|publisher=BloodyDisgusting|date=November 3, 2009}}</ref> he said he was working on a thriller "set in Manhattan in the year 2014. We hope to shoot the movie in [[3D film|3-D]], and part of the movie would be filmed using full CGI motion capture."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17934|title=Richard Kelly Planning 3-D Thriller!|first=Chris|last=Eggertsen|publisher=BloodyDisgusting|date=November 3, 2009}}</ref> In 2011 he announced that he was writing and directing ''Corpus Christi'', a [[Texas]]-set film to be produced by [[Eli Roth]].<ref name= "comeback">{{cite news |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven |url= |
After the release of ''[[The Box (2009 film)|The Box]]'',<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17933|title=Video Interviews with the Director and Stars of 'The Box'|publisher=BloodyDisgusting|date=November 3, 2009|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=August 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809011234/http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/17933|url-status=live}}</ref> he said he was working on a thriller "set in Manhattan in the year 2014. We hope to shoot the movie in [[3D film|3-D]], and part of the movie would be filmed using full CGI motion capture."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/17934|title=Richard Kelly Planning 3-D Thriller!|first=Chris|last=Eggertsen|publisher=BloodyDisgusting|date=November 3, 2009|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=August 9, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809004203/http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/17934|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2011, he announced that he was writing and directing ''Corpus Christi'', a [[Texas]]-set film to be produced by [[Eli Roth]].<ref name= "comeback">{{cite news |last=Zeitchik |first=Steven |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/02/richard-kelly-donnie-darko-corpus-christi-new-movie-the-box.html |title=Richard Kelly looks to cash in another comeback ticket |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=February 17, 2011 |access-date=February 21, 2011 |archive-date=August 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815043711/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/movies/2011/02/richard-kelly-donnie-darko-corpus-christi-new-movie-the-box.html |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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The production was cancelled due to financial and casting problems. Kelly |
The production was cancelled due to financial and casting problems. Kelly said he would instead focus on a true crime thriller titled ''Amicus'', starring [[James Gandolfini]], whose death in 2013 prevented that.<ref>{{cite news |
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| title = Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' was Booed |
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In an interview with ''[[PopMatters]]'' magazine in 2017, Kelly said in |
In an interview with ''[[PopMatters]]'' magazine in 2017, Kelly said in regard to doing an official sequel to ''Donnie Darko'': "I'm open to doing something much bigger and longer and more ambitious that could be a new story," Kelly said and then added, "We'll see what happens. I have a lot of stuff that I'm working on and it's ambitious and it's expensive and we'll see what happens."<ref name=D>{{cite web|work=[[PopMatters]]|title=Mainstream Darko: Director Richard Kelly on Building His Own Sandbox|date=April 3, 2017|author=Maçek III, J.C.|url=https://www.popmatters.com/feature/mainstream-darko-richard-kelly-interview-donnie-darko/|access-date=April 20, 2020|archive-date=October 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018214228/http://www.popmatters.com/feature/mainstream-darko-richard-kelly-interview-donnie-darko/|url-status=live}}</ref> Regarding the 2009 ''Donnie Darko'' sequel ''[[S. Darko]]'', Kelly has said: "I had nothing to do with it. And I hate it when people try and blame me or hold me responsible for it because I had no [involvement]. I don't control the underlying rights to [the ''Donnie Darko'' franchise]. I had to relinquish them when I was 24 years old. I hate when people ask me about that because I've never seen it and I never will, so… don't ask me about the sequel."<ref name=D/> |
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==Reception== |
==Reception== |
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In 2016, filmmaker [[Kevin Smith]] said of Kelly: "He is insanely creative and is not unlike [[Christopher Nolan]]. But Nolan wound up in the Warner Bros. system where he got special handling, and he got a lot of money to make huge art films like ''[[Inception]]''. Richard can be one of our greatest filmmakers. He is right now, but just a lot of people don't realize it. He's still a kid, and someone needs to Nolan that kid."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/anatomy-a-cannes-disaster-what-890749 | title=Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' Was Booed | date=May 9, 2016 | access-date=January 15, 2017 | work=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref> |
In 2016, filmmaker [[Kevin Smith]] said of Kelly: "He is insanely creative and is not unlike [[Christopher Nolan]]. But Nolan wound up in the Warner Bros. system where he got special handling, and he got a lot of money to make huge art films like ''[[Inception]]''. Richard can be one of our greatest filmmakers. He is right now, but just a lot of people don't realize it. He's still a kid, and someone needs to Nolan that kid."<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/anatomy-a-cannes-disaster-what-890749 | title=Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' Was Booed | date=May 9, 2016 | access-date=January 15, 2017 | work=The Hollywood Reporter | archive-date=December 3, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203093643/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/anatomy-a-cannes-disaster-what-890749 | url-status=live }}</ref> |
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==Filmography== |
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* 2001 – [[Sitges Film Festival|Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival]], Best Film (''Donnie Darko'') |
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Alma mater | University of Southern California (BFA) |
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James Richard Kelly is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He wrote and directed the films Donnie Darko (2001), Southland Tales (2006), and The Box (2009).
Early life
[edit]Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia, where he attended Midlothian High School and graduated in 1993.[1] 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.[2]
Kelly spoke of viewing the film Brazil with author Robert K. Elder in an interview for The Film That Changed My Life:
I think the greatest thing I learned from Terry is that every frame is worthy of attention to detail. Every frame is worthy of being frozen in time and then thrown on a wall like an oil painting, and if you work hard on every frame, the meaning of your film becomes deeper, more enhanced.[3]
Film career
[edit]Donnie Darko (2001) is Kelly's first feature and was nominated for 21 awards, winning eleven. It later made #2 on Empire magazine's list of the 50 greatest independent films of all time, behind Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.[4]
In 2005, Kelly wrote the screenplay for the Tony Scott-directed film, Domino. Kelly has said: "That was a wonderful experience. I wrote that for Tony Scott. That was Tony Scott's very personal project that he had spent eight years developing with Domino Harvey, a close friend of his and almost like a daughter to him. He had spent years trying to tell her story and so that for me, it was an honor for me to get to work with Tony and to write that script for him and to design this really elaborate puzzle for him to tell her story. So that was just a privilege."[5]
Kelly has written numerous scripts that have not been produced, among them adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle[6] and Louis Sachar's Holes.[7]
His fourth film and second feature, Southland Tales, a rough cut of which screened in competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival,[8] was released November 16, 2007, and stars Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott, Kevin Smith and Miranda Richardson.
In 2008, Kelly's production company Darko Entertainment announced that it was producing the adaptation of the bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell with director Bob Gosse.[9][10] The book's author Tucker Max detailed Kelly's involvement in the process on his blog.[11][12]
After the release of The Box,[13] he said he was working on a thriller "set in Manhattan in the year 2014. We hope to shoot the movie in 3-D, and part of the movie would be filmed using full CGI motion capture."[14] In 2011, he announced that he was writing and directing Corpus Christi, a Texas-set film to be produced by Eli Roth.[15] The production was cancelled due to financial and casting problems. Kelly said he would instead focus on a true crime thriller titled Amicus, starring James Gandolfini, whose death in 2013 prevented that.[16]
In an interview with PopMatters magazine in 2017, Kelly said in regard to doing an official sequel to Donnie Darko: "I'm open to doing something much bigger and longer and more ambitious that could be a new story," Kelly said and then added, "We'll see what happens. I have a lot of stuff that I'm working on and it's ambitious and it's expensive and we'll see what happens."[5] Regarding the 2009 Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko, Kelly has said: "I had nothing to do with it. And I hate it when people try and blame me or hold me responsible for it because I had no [involvement]. I don't control the underlying rights to [the Donnie Darko franchise]. I had to relinquish them when I was 24 years old. I hate when people ask me about that because I've never seen it and I never will, so… don't ask me about the sequel."[5]
Reception
[edit]In 2016, filmmaker Kevin Smith said of Kelly: "He is insanely creative and is not unlike Christopher Nolan. But Nolan wound up in the Warner Bros. system where he got special handling, and he got a lot of money to make huge art films like Inception. Richard can be one of our greatest filmmakers. He is right now, but just a lot of people don't realize it. He's still a kid, and someone needs to Nolan that kid."[17]
Filmography
[edit]Short film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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1996 | The Goodbye Place | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also sound designer |
1997 | Visceral Matter | Yes | Yes | No |
Feature film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
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2001 | Donnie Darko | Yes | Yes | No |
2004 | Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut | Yes | Yes | No |
2005 | Domino | No | Yes | No |
2006 | Southland Tales | Yes | Yes | No |
2009 | World's Greatest Dad | No | No | Yes |
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | No | No | Yes | |
The Box | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
2010 | Operation: Endgame | No | No | Yes |
Awards and nominations
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2001 | Sundance Film Festival | Grand Jury Prize | Donnie Darko | Nominated |
Sitges Film Festival | Best Film | Nominated | ||
2002 | Online Film Critics Society | Breakthrough Filmmaker | Nominated | |
Independent Spirit Awards | Best First Feature | Nominated | ||
Best First Screenplay | Nominated | |||
Chicago Film Critics Association | Most Promising Director | Nominated | ||
2006 | Cannes Film Festival | Palme d'Or | Southland Tales | Nominated |
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