Yesterday, it was revealed in an exclusive interview with Comingsoon.net that Donnie Darko auteur Richard Kelly had been working on a Donnie Darko sequel for awhile now. However, in my opinion, even more exciting was the news that Kelly has also been working on an ambitious biopic about Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling – alongside Serling's own daughter – as well!
Here's the pertinent excerpt:
[it's] a very ambitious approach to a biopic and it involves a lot of fantasy elements. There is a big fantasy science fiction concept in the sort of approach that we’re taking to try and tell the story of his life. So, that’s a really complicated, difficult needle to thread, we are definitely working on it and hopefully at some point, we’ll get that project off the ground and it’s really just about getting all of the elements to work.
Meanwhile, no official start or release date for the film as of yet, but we'll keep you posted! And you can watch the most recent iteration of Twilight Zone – which premiered last year – on CBS All Access!
Personally, I think this has the potential to be really awesome! Serling was, of course, a towering figure in the world of sci-fi/fantasy, as well as an important political activist – especially with forming television industry standards for protecting labor and battling censorship. And while Kelly can be a divisive filmmaker (and his last foray into biopic filmmaking – writing the script for 2005's Domino – is…an acquired taste at best), I think the material could fit his particular style, especially if there will indeed be a fantastical bent involved somehow.
But what do you guys think? Fans of Serling's work? If so, think Kelly can do his life justice? Either way, sound off below!