He’s also adapting Evil
I caught up with Chris Fisher, the director of the upcoming Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko and asked him what he had planned for an encore. I asked the obvious question for openers. Are there plans for a Darko 3?
“I have no idea, nobody’s approached me about it,” Fisher says. “I think people are going to wait to see how [S. Darko] does, and it has big shoes to fill as everybody knows and it’s definitely a controversial project because of the love the fans have for the original. I think our movie needs to do two things well. It needs to reach a new teen audience and it needs to satisfy the audience that already exists. If it does those two things then I think Fox might want to continue the franchise. If people keep seeing these movies then they’ll keep making them. It’s as simple as that.”
Fisher’s most prominent follow-up was the remake of the John Carpenter-scripted, Irvin Kershner-directed thriller The Eyes of Laura Mars starring Faye Dunaway and a surprisingly young Tommy Lee Jones. I wondered what the status was on the project since Shock first reported on it here. “Right now, I’m not really sure,” Fisher says. “The project’s sort of on hold, and I’m writing for a TV show. I’m just focusing on that right now and will try to revisit that project as soon as I’m available again. I think everyone involved wants to make the best movie possible, so we’re just trying to find out what that movie is.”
When asked if anything else might be coming down the pipeline for him he quickly replied, “I just adapted a novel by Thomas Berger called Meeting Evil. Sort of a western set in suburbia, and it’s kind of about the nature of good and evil. That’s something I just finished and am planning to go out and cast pretty soon.”
Stay tuned for a full interview with Fisher this week!
Source: Jose Prendes
