All Topics  
Richard Kelly (director)

 

 
   Email Print
   Bookmark   Link
 

 

Richard Kelly (director)
 
 
  Topics Richard Kelly (director) Topic Home

Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is at the south-western end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 and writer
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
, best known for 2001's Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 in film Cult film psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly , and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell....
. Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia
Midlothian, Virginia

Midlothian is an unincorporated area in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Virginia, United States. Founded over 300 years ago as a coal mining village, it is now an outlying suburban community located well beyond the city limits in the Southside area of Richmond, Virginia in the Richmond-Petersburg region....
 where he attended Midlothian High School
Midlothian High School (Virginia)

Midlothian High School is an United States high school in the Midlothian, Virginia section of unincorporated Chesterfield County, Virginia, Virginia, United States....
 before getting a scholarship and moving to Southern California
Southern California

Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its population centers on the cities of Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Bernardino, California, and Riverside, California....
 to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta
Phi Delta Theta

Phi Delta Theta is an international Fraternities and sororities founded in 1848 and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad....
 fraternity. He made two short films
Short subject

Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
 at USC, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.

He has written scripts for film adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut's
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle , and Breakfast of Champions .He was also known for his Humanism beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association....
 Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way....
 and Louis Sachar's
Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar and is an United States author of children's literature who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes , for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal....
 Holes, although neither was produced.






Discussion
Ask a question about 'Richard Kelly (director)'
Start a new discussion about 'Richard Kelly (director)'
Answer questions from other users
Full Discussion Forum



Encyclopedia


Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia
Newport News, Virginia

Newport News is an independent city in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. It is at the south-western end of the Virginia Peninsula, on the north shore of the James River extending southeast from Skiffe's Creek along many miles of waterfront to the river's mouth at Newport News Point on the harbor of Hampton Roads....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 director
Film director

A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a film. A film director visualizes the Screenplay, controlling a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfillment of his or her vision....
 and writer
Screenwriter

Screenwriters or scenarists are scriptwriters who write the screenplays from which films and television programs are made.Most screenwriters start their careers writing on speculation....
, best known for 2001's Donnie Darko
Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 in film Cult film psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly , and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell....
. Kelly grew up in Midlothian, Virginia
Midlothian, Virginia

Midlothian is an unincorporated area in Chesterfield County, Virginia, Virginia, United States. Founded over 300 years ago as a coal mining village, it is now an outlying suburban community located well beyond the city limits in the Southside area of Richmond, Virginia in the Richmond-Petersburg region....
 where he attended Midlothian High School
Midlothian High School (Virginia)

Midlothian High School is an United States high school in the Midlothian, Virginia section of unincorporated Chesterfield County, Virginia, Virginia, United States....
 before getting a scholarship and moving to Southern California
Southern California

Southern California, or So Cal, is defined as the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Its population centers on the cities of Los Angeles, California, San Diego, California, San Bernardino, California, and Riverside, California....
 to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta
Phi Delta Theta

Phi Delta Theta is an international Fraternities and sororities founded in 1848 and headquartered at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Phi Delta Theta, Beta Theta Pi, and Sigma Chi form the Miami Triad....
 fraternity. He made two short films
Short subject

Short subject is a format description originally coined in the North American film industry in the early period of Film. The description is now used almost interchangeably with short film....
 at USC, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.

He has written scripts for film adaptations of Kurt Vonnegut's
Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five , Cat's Cradle , and Breakfast of Champions .He was also known for his Humanism beliefs and being honorary president of the American Humanist Association....
 Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle

Cat's Cradle is a 1963 science fiction novel by Kurt Vonnegut. It explores issues of science, technology, and religion, satirizing the arms race and many other targets along the way....
 and Louis Sachar's
Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar and is an United States author of children's literature who is best known for the Sideways Stories From Wayside School book series and the 1998 novel Holes , for which Sachar won a National Book Award and the Newbery Medal....
 Holes, although neither was produced. The latter screenplay is available as a PDF
Portable Document Format

Portable Document Format is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system....
 on and Kelly hopes that he will one day secure the rights to the former script, so that fans may read that one as well.

His fourth film, Southland Tales
Southland Tales

Southland Tales is a 2006 in film science fiction/drama/black comedy film, written and directed by Richard Kelly . The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles....
, a rough cut of which screened at Cannes Film Festival 2006, was released November 16th, 2007 and stars Dwayne Johnson, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sarah Michelle Prinze, better known by her birth name of Sarah Michelle Gellar, is an United States actor. She is best known for her role as the character Buffy Summers in the acclaimed television program Buffy the Vampire Slayer , for which she won in total six Teen Choice Awards, and the Saturn Award for Best Genre TV Actress and...
, Seann William Scott
Seann William Scott

Seann William Scott is an American actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Steve Stifler in the American Pie series of teen comedies....
, Kevin Smith and Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson

Miranda Jane Richardson is an England stage, film and television actor....
.

In 2008, Kelly's production company Darko Entertainment announced that it was producing the adaptation of the bestselling book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell

I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is a book written by Tucker Max, published in 2006, that details anecdotal stories of debauchery and belligerence....
 with director Bob Gosse
Bob Gosse

Bob Gosse is an American film producer and director. He has also acted in several movies....
. The book's author Tucker Max
Tucker Max

Tucker Tibor Max is an United States humorist and Internet celebrity. He chronicles his drunken and sexual encounters in the form of "Gonzo journalism" short story on his website TuckerMax.com, which has reportedly received millions of visitors since Max launched it on a bet in 2002....
 detailed Kelly's involvement in the process on his blog.

Filmography


Writer and director

  • The Goodbye Place (1996)
  • Visceral Matter (1997)
  • Donnie Darko
    Donnie Darko

    Donnie Darko is a 2001 in film Cult film psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly , and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, and Mary McDonnell....
     (2001)
  • Southland Tales
    Southland Tales

    Southland Tales is a 2006 in film science fiction/drama/black comedy film, written and directed by Richard Kelly . The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles....
     (2007)
  • The Box (2009)


Writer

  • Domino
    Domino (film)

    Domino is a 2005 in film Action film inspired by the story of Domino Harvey, the English daughter of stage and screen actor Laurence Harvey, who became a bounty hunter working in Los Angeles....
     (2005, screenplay, story)
  • The House at the End of the Street
  • Optimistic (2006, announced)
  • Vanishing Point upcoming remake of the 1971 road movie
    Road movie

    A road film is a film genre in which the film's plot takes place during a journey....


Producer

  • I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (film)

    I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell is an Cinema of the United States comedy film due for release in 2009. The film is loosely based on 'The Austin Road Trip Story' from I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell by Tucker Max....


External links