Richard Kelly’s apocalyptic new film “Southland Tales” finally has a release date: November 9, 2007. Kelly’s previous film “Donnie Darko” became a cult favorite and would likely have been a hit had it not had the misfortune of portraying an airplane accident so close to September 11th.

Southland Tales stars Sarah Michelle Gellar (who you might remember from “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” , Seann William Scott and “The Rock” in a near-future US which has suffered a pair of nuclear attacks and which is damaging the “fabric of space and time” with new power generators (some articles say it takes place in 2008, some in 2005).

The original 164 minute cut was poorly received at Cannes; the final release cut is 137 minutes and will hopefully find a good audience.

I’m really looking forward to Southland Tales… Donnie Darko was a huge surprise and confounded me throughout the film. I hope that someday the original cut becomes available as well as the theatrical version; I’d love to see the original.

The SciFi Wire article on Southland Tales also makes the soundtrack look very promising, with music from The Killers, The Pixies, Muse, Moby, Radiohead and Jane’s Addiction… hopefully some new tracks and not just recycled songs. The soundtracks to “The Crow”, “Strange Days” and “Until The End Of The World” (another wonderful though long apocalyptic film which unfortunately is not available on DVD in the US) were all wonderful but recent genre films’ soundtracks haven’t really interested in me in the way they did.

Three comics form the prequel to the movie: “Southland Tales Book 1: Two Roads Diverge (Southland Tales)”, “Southland Tales Book 2: Fingerprints” and “Southland Tales Book 3: The Mechanicals (Southland Tales)”. I have them on order and will report back with a review of them after I’ve had a chance to read them.

Via: “Southland” Set For November 9th (July 25th 2007)

Via: SCI FI Wire | The News Service of the SCI FI Channel | SCIFI.COM

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