Is a Richard Kelly movie universe coming? The talented filmmaker reveals all to The Hollywood News.
More on the potential Richard Kelly movie universe news below.
Richard Kelly burst onto the movie scene at the turn of the millennium with Donnie Darko. The film is nothing short of cult cinema magic and launched the career of actor Jake Gyllenhaal. Kelly followed the film with two more films, Southland Tales and The Box, but both failed to achieve the same cult success. Since The Box, Kelly has largely been missing in action.
We caught up with the director recently and sought to discover what he’s been doing, and it seems that very interesting things are afoot. Rather than jumping into the Marvel / Star Wars / DC universes like many of his peers, Kelly is instead working on creating his own cinematic universe:
“In the past few years that I’ve been writing, I’ve been writing a lot of my own projects and trying to kind of create a workflow where moving forwards I’ll hopefully be directing a lot of movies back-to-back.”
“I’m trying to operate in my own sort of universe here. Tell stories in my own universe because I’m just continually inspired by the way people continue to revisit Donnie Darko and have my second and third film and see how they’re all connected. I’m just trying to stay faithful to the universe that I’ve been building.”
Kelly also shared that it’s very likely that he and Gyllenhaal will team up again in the future, they just want to make sure that the project is special enough.
“I mean, I’m just constantly in awe of Jake and everything he’s accomplished. He has such an extraordinary body of work. If anything, I think we’re determined to work together again at some point, but I think we’re both very cautious about making sure it’s the right project. That it’s something that can stand-up next to Donnie Darko. We don’t want to do something and have it be compared as far inferior to what we’ve already done together.”
Watch out world, a new, and hopefully original movie universe is on its way.
