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.