Arriving on DVD and Blu-ray next week from Fox Home Entertainment is S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale, the highly anticipated sequel to Richard Kelly's mind-bending Donnie Darko. This morning we caught up with director Chris Fisher to talk about the project, and during the conversation we learned of some trouble with the forthcoming remake of John Carpenter's Eyes of Laura Mars, and that Fisher is currently adapting a novel by the name of Meeting Evil. Read all about it beyond the break.
It was reported a few weeks back that Chris Fisher was slated to direct a remake of Eyes of Laura Mars, a thriller from 1978 that was penned by the legendary John Carpenter. Fisher tells us that he wants to do the movie, but only has eyes for Carpenter's original script (yes, pun intended).
"Well, to tell you the truth, the project is sort of coming apart for creative reasons right now," he tells Bloody-Disgusting in an exclusive interview. "There is a John Carpenter script that was heavily rewritten and I wanted to go back to that original Carpenter script," he continues, "They want to stay more true to the original film; I wanted to stay more true to John Carpenter's version. The studio and I don’t see eye-to-eye on that. So I think at this time, that won't be my next project."
While the battle ensues on Laura Mars, Fisher tells us he just finished his own adaptation of a novel called "Meeting Evil".
"There's a novel I adapted called "Meeting Evil", which is a sort of a two-handed containment thriller, sort of a Western about good and evil," he reveals exclusively to B-D. "It’s something I’m trying to cast right now. I just finished the script and about to go out with it."
"Meeting Evil" is a novel by Thomas Berger published in 1992
Here's the plotline: When John answers a knock at his front door, he thinks nothing of giving the man outside a hand starting his car. Richie's car has stalled and he needs help. John's charitable impulses lead him to offer to guide Richie to a nearby petrol station, but he has a bad feeling about this strange man. What starts as a simple trip to the petrol station turns into an extraordinary journey into darkness. Before the day is over, John will witness Richie commit violent crime after violent crime, and yet John can't seem to disentangle himself from the dangerous lunatic. Richie, meanwhile, is desperate to explain the qualities that he believes the two men have in common and the friendship they could share. When John arrives home at the end of this nightmarish day, Richie has fooled John's wife, Joan, into believing that he is a client of John's, and Joan is busily entertaining him. John then faces the toughest decision of his life: how to protect his family and get rid of Richie for good.
Watch for a full interview with Fisher about S. Darko in the coming week.
[quote]S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale, the highly anticipated sequel to Richard Kelly's mind-bending Donnie Darko[/quote]
Highly anticipated by who exactly? lol
S. Darko is probably the least anticipated movie of the year, decade, or perhaps even century. The only reason people, myself included, will even buy this movie is simply to see where the story line goes in relation to Donnie Darko. Those people who will waste money on it, and actually enjoy it, are part of the inbred scum basers who think there will be a deep dark meaning to this movie that, in comparison, is the Breakfas Club meets Girl Interrupted with a hint of The Butterfly Effect rubbed against the remnants of Donnie Darko. Fisher should be ashamed as a director to pick up on a movie that is even endoresed by Kelley.
Buying S. Darko out of curiosity is just as bad as buying it for other reasons. Either way, the company that made the movie gets your money, and more retarded films like this will get made. As for Laura Mars, I would love to see this film remade if they go back to Carpenter's script. We'd finally get to see what his vision for the film was.
Fisher is actually a pretty good filmaker and whilst he shouldn't have expected to be anything but crucified for doing S.Darko he sounds like he's got the right idea with this one. I've always been of the opinion that it's pointless to remake great movies if you have no chance of improving on them (Halloween, TCM and Dawn of the Dead for example being so near perfect that any inclination certain individuals might have had about doing better was arrogance in the extreme) but some cult movies, whilst good, plainly failed in certain areas to live up to their potential. Laura Mars is a good flick but apparantly Carpenter's take would have been vastly superior. It would also be far more in Fisher's ballpark based on his previous work. It's a shame as this could have been that rare thing, a remake worth looking forward to. Instead all we'll likely get is another lazy, unambitious photofit of the original.
Good, Im glad its not being made. I loved the eys of laura mars and think its a great film. But it cant be topped, it shouldnt be tried and Im sick of just remakes since 99% of them are pure shit. Id rather have original ideas that were just ok then a great remake anyway (not that great and remake go together anyway).
I wanna see this movie, should there be a remake. I also want to read the original script and watch the original movie. John Carpenter is great.
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