Elizabeth Berkley joins S. Darko Showgirls' star signs up for sequel Source: The Hollywood Reporter
We’ll admit to being as shocked as you when we heard the news about the upcoming Donnie Darko sequel. With a resounding “WHY?” we questioned the validity of such a project and the artistic merits of continuing the time-bending saga.
Well, it's time for us to eat a fat slice of humble pie as news reaches us of a major new talent joining the cast – or not!
That’s right folks, worry no longer. Where Richard Kelly’s original masterpiece had the likes of Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, director Chris Fisher’s follow-up is set to feature Showgirls’ Elizabeth Berkley. Phew, that’s a relief, for a while there we thought this was going to be a pile of cack.
The Hollywood Reporter reports that the former Saved By The Bell star has joined the cast of S. Darko (aka Samantha D) alongside Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick, Dragonball star Justin Chatwin, Step Up 2: The Streets' Briana Evigan and returning Darko alumni Daveigh Chase as the eponymous heroine.
Berkley is set to play a speed freak-turned-Jesus freak who is infatuated with her dreamy pastor in the film which is set seven years after the events of the original.
The film is currently shooing in Utah, unless some kind of time-tunnel opens up and allows us to stop this craziness from ever happening.
Now what we really need is an announcement that Donnie Darko 2 and 3 are going to be shot back-to-back and that Keith Richards is making a cameo! ... Read More
Perhaps we are in fact in a tangent universe itself! And to stop it collapsing and turning into a black-hole with which it could destroy all existence (when the film gets released) is to go back in time and stop Fisher, Atkins, or the film studio thinking it would be a good idea to cash in on a masterpiece of originality. Just got to figure out who the living reciever is... and what the artifact is, then were set! The animated dead and living should all be chosen automatically.
and if we don't... Read More
Perhaps we are in fact in a tangent universe itself! And to stop it collapsing and turning into a black-hole with which it could destroy all existence (when the film gets released) is to go back in time and stop Fisher, Atkins, or the film studio thinking it would be a good idea to cash in on a masterpiece of originality. Just got to figure out who the living reciever is... and what the artifact is, then were set! The animated dead and living should all be chosen automatically.
and if we don't... Read More
So, it's gonna be Darko meets Showgirls?! It's hard to imagine how they're going to make this abomination even less appealing. What's next, I wonder? A cameo for Rose West and Gary Glitter to sing the soundtrack? This is going to be a bomb of apocalyptic proportions. So hard will it suck that not even light will be able to escape it - an event horizon of shite if you will. ... Read More
TOO UPSET TO ACTUALLY FORM A REACTION, INSULT OR EXPRESS ANGER IN A SOMEWHAT INTELLIGENT OR WITTY MANNER...JUST NO!!! NO NO NO NO NO AND NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO AGAIN...I NEED CAKE..OR CASABLANCA (unless they make a sequel of that too!!!! I do agree with olixander's bright side though..the dark knight) ... Read More
In the long sad history of bad ideas...this is a fully-fledged ned ryerson calibre doozy! The words 'Wreck' and 'Train' spring heavily to mind.. ... Read More
Obviously a cash in, probably have a predictable plot. Chance of this actually being above 2 stars is very very low. I can also see it trying to be a teen horror, lots of cheesy jump out moments.
The only possible way there could be a sequel to donnie darko would be if a tangent universe was set up again, but then its the same story again, just with different characters. I am very very unhappy.
On the plus side though, The Dark Knight is out soon!!!! ... Read More
