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'''James Richard Kelly''' is an American filmmaker |
'''James Richard Kelly''' is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed ''[[Donnie Darko]]'', ''[[Southland Tales]]'' and ''[[The Box (2009 film)|The Box]]''. |
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==Early life== |
==Early 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 11. 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, "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/> |
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=2018-11-03 |archive-date=2020-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112024701/https://twitter.com/jrichardkelly/status/815269981445308416?lang=en |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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=2018-11-03 |archive-date=2020-11-12 |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=2009-12-13 |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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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=2011-02-17 |access-date=2011-02-21 |archive-date=2016-08-15 |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> |
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=2011-02-17 |access-date=2011-02-21 |archive-date=2016-08-15 |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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| Born | James Richard Kelly |
| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
James Richard Kelly is an American filmmaker who wrote and directed Donnie Darko, Southland Tales and The Box.
Early life
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
Donnie Darko (2001) is Kelly's first feature and was nominated for 21 awards, winning 11. 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 regards 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] In regards to 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
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
Films
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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| 1996 | The Goodbye Place | Yes | Yes | Yes | Short film Also sound designer |
| 1997 | Visceral Matter | Yes | Yes | No | Short film |
| 2001 | Donnie Darko | Yes | Yes | No | Feature directorial debut |
| 2004 | Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut | Yes | Yes | No | Director's cut of feature directorial debut |
| 2005 | Domino | No | Yes | No | Co-written with Steve Barancik |
| 2006 | Southland Tales | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | World's Greatest Dad | No | No | Yes | |
| 2009 | I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell | No | No | Yes | |
| 2009 | The Box | Yes | Yes | Yes | Based on the 1970 short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson |
| 2010 | Operation: Endgame | No | No | Yes |
Awards and nominations
Nominated
- 2001 – Sundance Film Festival, Grand Jury Prize (Donnie Darko)
- 2001 – Sitges – Catalan International Film Festival, Best Film (Donnie Darko)
- 2002 – Online Film Critics Society Awards, OFCS Award (Donnie Darko)
- 2002 – Independent Spirit Awards, Best First Feature (Donnie Darko)
- 2002 – Independent Spirit Awards, Best First Screenplay (Donnie Darko)
- 2002 – Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, Most Promising Director
- 2006 – Cannes Film Festival, Palme d'Or (Southland Tales)
References
- ^ The New York Times Archived March 9, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Notable Alumni, USC School of Cinematic Arts. Archived February 24, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Kelly, Richard. Interview by Robert K. Elder. The Film That Changed My Life. By Robert K. Elder. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2011. N. p54. Print.
- ^ The 50 Greatest Independent Films, Empire Online Archived July 25, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c Maçek III, J.C. (3 April 2017). "Mainstream Darko: Director Richard Kelly on Building His Own Sandbox". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ Richard-kelly.net Archived March 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Richard Kelly on Twitter". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2018-11-03.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Southland Tales". festival-cannes.com. Archived from the original on August 22, 2011. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (June 5, 2008). "Darko to serve Tucker Max's 'Beer'". Variety. Archived from the original on 2010-07-03. Retrieved 2008-06-20.
- ^ FirstShowing.net Archived 2008-06-10 at the Wayback Machine Darko Entertainment Adapting I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
- ^ "IHSTBIH Blog Entry: Darko to serve Tucker Max's Beer". ihopetheyservebeerinhell.com. June 6, 2008. Archived from the original on August 28, 2008.
- ^ Tucker Max shares his opinion of Darko Entertainment Richard Kelly's homepage Archived December 10, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Video Interviews with the Director and Stars of 'The Box'". BloodyDisgusting. November 3, 2009. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
- ^ Eggertsen, Chris (November 3, 2009). "Richard Kelly Planning 3-D Thriller!". BloodyDisgusting. Archived from the original on August 9, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
- ^ Zeitchik, Steven (2011-02-17). "Richard Kelly looks to cash in another comeback ticket". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2016-08-15. Retrieved 2011-02-21.
- ^ Siegel, Tatiana (May 5, 2016). "Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' was Booed". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2020-12-03. Retrieved 2016-05-17.
- ^ "Anatomy of a Cannes Disaster: What Happened After 'Southland Tales' Was Booed". The Hollywood Reporter. May 9, 2016. Archived from the original on December 3, 2020. Retrieved January 15, 2017.
