Two More Board Donnie Darko Sequel

S. Darko PosterRemember that horrible sounding Donnie Darko sequel we told you about a couple weeks back? The one in-which Richard Kelly has no involvement or even support? Well that movie just added two more names to the roster. How about Oscar nominated Jake Gyllenhaal? Nope. Or how about Golden Globe nominated Maggie Gyllenhaal? Wrong again. Maybe, uh, Oscar nominated Mary McDonnell? Nope, these are two brand new cast members not featured in the original film.

So what “talented” duo of actors were hired?  Elizabeth Berkley, who many remember from Saved by the Bell and Showgirls, and Briana Evigan, who was in Step Up 2: The Streets, have boarded the Darko sequel/spinoff. According to THR, Berkley is playing “a speed freak-turned-Jesus freak whose sentiments about ridding the world of its exponential sin are rivaled only by her infatuation with her dreamy pastor.” They will join the already announced cast of Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl, Justin Chatwin (The Chumscrubber), and Daveigh Chase (Donnie Darko) in Utah where production has already begun.

The sequel picks up seven years after the first film and Donnie’s death when his now 18-year-old sister Samantha Darko (hence the title S. Darko), and her best friend Corey go on a roadtrip to Los Angeles, where along the way they are plagued by bizarre visions. Yeah, nothing about this movie sounds good.

  • Hmm, sounds oddly as though someone had a completely unrelated script and found a way to file the original name off and scratch "Donnie Darko 2" on it.

    See also: Die Hard 4.
  • Casey
    Ew, more S. Darko news?
  • Ellizabeth Berkley is on CSI Miami now... shes actually not THAT bad. Her hotness level helps :)

    Cant see myself every seeing this movie tho
  • Antibodies
    Is there any chance this is just a softcore porn?
  • I'll hate myself for renting this.
  • jfive
    Garbage! Why in the world would anybody even watch this ?
  • sean p
    The original was so bad that I bet this will be way better. You can't get any worse than the first one. It was so bad that it just can't get any worse. I bet this one will be better than that first terrible one. This has to be better. The first one was terrible and probably will be worse than the new one. It's going to be way better than the first one. It was so terrible it can't be better than the new one.
  • Pill
    Sean I think you are underestimating just how terrible the original was. I imagine this one will be so awful (as in worse than its predecessor), that it will outshine itself in the shitty movie sequel department. I hated this film (almost as much as the original), but nothing could compare to it's shittyness, though I am sure the original will give it a run for its money. The new one (by new I mean the former I was referring too) can only hope to be as awful as Donnie Darko. S. Darko will be considered a glorious cinematic achievement, though I am sure it will be just as bad, if not worse then the first Darko movie.
  • sari
    WEAK. SAUCE.
  • Craig M.
    More truthful title than S. Darko? How about S. Tupid?
  • f
    That poster's bunny ears look like legs. Which would make the bunny skull a close-up of a pussy...

    I wonder if that's the original idea behind it.
  • rachel
    I seriously don't understand why everyone is being whiny about this. Every time I read something about S.Darko, there are 50 kids crying about how it will ruin the first.

    Uh...

    No it won't. If a sequel will actually RUIN the first movie, then it wasn't such a great movie to begin with.

    I loved Donnie Darko, thought it was amazing. Not the best movie of all time, a little over rated, but still a good movie, and yes I don't think it merits a sequel, but I'm not going to go cursing the people making it. Money is money, and this is their jobs so who are you to bash them.

    Stop complaining.
    Don't see S.Darko.
    Watch Donnie Darko for good measure.
    And go suck a fuck.
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