[SciFiWire] Kelly: Southland F/X Green-Lighted

[Cassie Hughes]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/news_thumbnails/gellar_southlandtales_tn.jpg Richard Kelly, director of the long-delayed apocalyptic SF epic movie Southland Tales, wrote on his >a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=87279726&blogID=249135558&MyToken=617ba512-73b9-40d5-8c47-8fd12cc5693c" target="outside">blog that Sony has given him a green light to finish the movie's visual effects, opening the way for the film to be completed and begin public screenings this summer.

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[N4H]

I just read the review of this at JoBlo.com. It sounds like it really sucks.

He recommends selling this one as a bad movie, and if you want to see something like it that actually works, rent Strange Days instead.

Apparently it's no Donnie Darko.

[goldenboy]

I'm always curious to see failed experiments, ya know? Sometimes, directors get too big for their britches, go completely off the rails. If the director's interesting, I'm tempted to take a quick look anyway.

Still gotta see Strange Days. That's Kathryn Bigelow, right?

[N4H]

Yes, she directed. James Cameron wrote the screenplay. Ralph Fiennes, and Angela Basset starred. It's one of my personal favorites.

Love the Angela Basset character. I think she's the prototype for a lot of characters to follow, such as Zoe from Firefly. You could interchange either actress comfortably for either part.