Kaum hat man sich über einen guten Blindkauf gefreut, schon kommt der nächste Schock:

"Donnie Darko" writer/director Richard Kelly recently spoke with About.com (http://www.about.com) regarding the "Director's Cut" edition of "Donnie Darko" to be released next summer in theaters.

Kelly says that the newer version will answer a lot of questions, while posing new ones: "I think it?s going to be a pretty substantially new version of the film. I mean, I think it?s certainly going to clarify a lot of things for the audience but it?s also going to, I hope, expand the meaning of the film, not only in terms of answers, but also in terms of new questions."

He goes on to say, "Ultimately, it?s called the ?Director?s Cut? so it?s going to be delving into more of my interpretation of the film. I think that this is all based upon what was originally intended and the kind of material that I was forced to delete from the film when initially the film was first going to be distributed. People weren?t sure if the film was ever going to connect with the audience. The consensus was that the film was not going to connect with an audience, it was going to be very inaccessible, and the best thing to do was to remove as much material as possible to try and make the film as tight and quick as possible." (Cinecon)