First Look At Richard Kelly's The Box

By Josh Tyler: 2008-02-18 01:06:58

In 2001 he was responsible for one of the best movies of the year. In 2007 he released one of the worst of the decade. Southland Tales was so bad by all rights it should have put Richard Kelly in director jail for good, Donnie Darko be damned, but he’s getting another chance. He’s making another movie called The Box.

The guys over at Twitch have scored a first look at The Box, including that picture there to your right, which would appear to be the literal box in question. It stars James Marsden and Cameron Diaz who are faced with a dilemma: A mysterious box shows up at their door. If they press the button inside it they get enough money to save their son, but someone else in the world will die. They push it, hear gunshots, and then set out to solve the murder they’ve caused.

Kelly’s obsession with preachy pseudo-coincidence and fate is what fucked up his last movie, and that plot description is rife with it. I can easily see the whole thing devolving into Southland Tales 2, and Southland Tales has already scarred me beyond recognition. It’ll take more than a half-assed plot like that to get me to see another Richard Kelly movie. I’ll always love Donnie Darko, but until Kelly blows my mind with something awesome I’m considering it a fluke and him a self-important hack.

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jory
December 5, 2008 at 14:52

Commenting on Southland Tales- Direction wise, it is gorgeous and the story is zany, but shit it's supposed to be. It's based of a graphic novel Kelly wrote. Looking back at Donnie Darko and The Goodbye Place, Kelly has a knack for bizarre sci-fi. I'm stoked to see how this movie turns out. I for one loved Southland Tales~ His later work shouldn't be compared to Donnie Darko which was amazing I know, but bigger budget allows Kelly to do the bigger crazier ideas he has in his head. I understand that it's your opinion, but to knock a director because of one movie you didn't like seems a bit hasty.

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armless_man
February 19, 2008 at 00:37

That was an episode of the 80's Twilight Zone

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jordan
February 18, 2008 at 14:24

it's actually a richard matheson story, called "button, button"...but yeah that's pretty much the story...i'm interested to see how they're able to stretch a 7 page story into a feature length film.

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Kris
February 18, 2008 at 13:01

Wasnt this a Ray Bradbury tale? I could be wronf but Ive read it. In the original story the wife gets the box (no kid involved) and is told she will be rich if she press the button, but someone in the world she doesnt know will die. She vexes for a while and finally does it. The next day her husband is killed in soke sort of accident and she ends up with a massive life insurance policy. The man shows up to collect his box from the distraught woman. She asks him how it could be her husband that was killed and he says something along the lines of "How well does anyone know any one else, really?" and it makes her think she didnt know about her husband at all. Wierdness.
This movie obviously borrows from that but twists the plot and the ending, kind of like they did with "I am Legend".

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