S. Darko (2009)

Director:

Chris Fisher

Writers:

Richard Kelly (characters)
Nathan Atkins (screenplay)

Release Date:

21 August 2009 (Italy)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

It's Time To Travel Forward

Plot:

The story picks up seven years after the first film when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a roadtrip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.

Plot Keywords:

Time Travel | Sequel | Second Part | Period In Title | Direct To Video Sequel To Theatrical Movie

Cast

Daveigh Chase	...	Samantha
Briana Evigan	...	Corey
James Lafferty	...	Iraq Jack
Ed Westwick	...	Randy
Walter Platz	...	Frank
John Hawkes	...	Phil
Bret Roberts	...	Officer O'Dell
Jackson Rathbone	...	Jeremy
Elizabeth Berkley	...	Trudy
Barbara Tarbuck	...	Agatha
Matthew Davis	...	Pastor John
Nathan Stevens	...	Jeff
Ryan Templeman	...	Mike
Zulay Henao	...	Baelyn
JJ Neward	...	Co-Worker (as J.J. Neward)
Bridger El-Bakhi	...	Billy (as Bridger J. El-Bakhi)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gregory T. Collett	...	Ted Moncton (uncredited)
Kristen Hillier	...	Local Girl (uncredited)
Bob Lanoue	...	F.B.I. Agent (uncredited)
Kristina Malota	...	Susie Bates (uncredited)
Marina Malota	...	Emily Bates (uncredited)
Thomas McMinn	...	Partier (uncredited)
Ryan Moat	...	Elder Moat / BBQ-Party Missionary (uncredited)
Savannah Ostler	...	Barfing Girl / Waitress (uncredited)
Josh Piper	...	Barbecue Guy (uncredited)

Directed by
Chris Fisher

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Nathan Atkins		screenplay
Richard Kelly		characters

Produced by
Kent Beyda	....	co-producer
Jim Busfield	....	co-producer
Jennifer Lane Connolly	....	co-producer
Michael C. Cuddy	....	line producer
Adam Fields	....	producer
Ash R. Shah	....	producer
Sundip R. Shah	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Ed Harcourt

Cinematography by
Marvin V. Rush

Film Editing by
Kent Beyda

Casting by
Sig De Miguel
Stephen Vincent

Production Design by
Alfred Sole

Art Direction by
Mark J. Mullins

Set Decoration by
Suzy Eaton

Costume Design by
Stephanie Strate

Makeup Department
Christel Edwards	....	key makeup artist
Robin Glaser	....	makeup department head
Chris Hanson	....	special makeup effects supervisor
Emma-Lee Hoganson	....	key hair stylist
Rachel Schroeder	....	key hair stylist

Production Management
Michael C. Cuddy	....	unit production manager
Todd King	....	post-production supervisor

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Donald Hauer	....	first assistant director
James Jackson	....	second second assistant director
Peter Silberstein	....	second assistant director

Art Department
Terry Beaver	....	set dresser
Andrew Buys	....	swing
Jonathan Hallett	....	storyboard artist
Chris Hansen	....	set dresser
Kenneth Hill	....	leadman
Thomas O'Meara IV	....	set dresser
Rodrigo Rivas	....	art department coordinator
Joachim Seisay	....	storyboard artist
Linden Snyder	....	set designer
Anthony Straga	....	on-set dresser
Bruce Wing	....	property master
Travis Wing	....	assistant property master

Sound Department
Judah Getz	....	adr mixer
Parker Jones	....	boom operator
Eric Lalicata	....	sound re-recording mixer
Eric Lalicata	....	supervising sound editor
Paul H. Maritsas	....	sound mixer
Charles Maynes	....	sound designer
Stephen Rippey	....	boom operator
John Sanacore	....	adr mixer
Dan Snow	....	sound supervisor
Matt Soule	....	sound editor

Special Effects by
Mark Arcolio	....	special effects assistant
Cafe Noir	....	special effects (as Michael Jones Everett)

Visual Effects by
Milton Adamou	....	visual effects
Daniel Chuba	....	visual effects producer
Mark A.Z. Dippé	....	visual effects producer
Les Hunter	....	visual effects producer: Hammerhead Productions
Yeonsoo Kim	....	visual effects artist
Youngki Lee	....	visual effects producer
Bongkyu Lim	....	digital compositor: digiart
Sung Oh Moon	....	lead animator
Hailey Soyoung Park	....	visual effects line producer
Min Su Park	....	visual effects supervisor
Tracy Park	....	visual effects assistant
Cindy Rago	....	visual effects assistant
Jaesoon Ryu	....	visual effects artist
Kel Story	....	visual effects assistant
Wes Takahashi	....	visual effects producer
Ian Vertovec	....	additional visual effects
Hyunseong Yu	....	animator
Junshik-Raul Yun	....	visual effects coordinator: digiart

Stunts
Frank L. Bare II	....	stunt coordinator
Jeff Chumas	....	stunt rigger
Kathy Jarvis	....	stunt double: Daveigh Chase
Katie Sciuto	....	stunt double

Camera and Electrical Department
William Boaz	....	best boy electric
Clayton Chase	....	still photographer
Clay Essig	....	grip
Jesse Evans	....	Steadicam operator
Reed Fanning	....	electrician
John Farr	....	gaffer
Alex Fraughton	....	electrician
Steve Freebairn	....	data management editor
Tom Froysland	....	electrician
Steve Gilbert	....	dolly grip
Brandon Gleave	....	best boy electric
Jeff Gustafson	....	video technician
Shawn Lacy	....	key grip
Mike Law	....	grip
Mike Law	....	grip
Nathan D. Lee	....	second assistant camera
Scott Leyse	....	first assistant camera
William Long	....	electrician (as Bill Long)
Jeremy Neish	....	data management editor
Stephanie Ollerton	....	second assistant camera
Jason Painter	....	first assistant camera
Jonathon Porter	....	best boy grip
Robert 'Dobber' Price	....	first assistant camera
Patrick Reddish	....	camera operator: "b" camera
Michael Rush	....	second assistant camera
Jonathan Sizemore	....	gaffer
Nathan Stock	....	grip (as Nate Stock)
Shawn Turner	....	electrician

Casting Department
Shawn Mehling	....	extras casting director

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Barbara Lambert	....	key costumer
Mike Law	....	costumer
Amy Jean Roberts	....	assistant costume designer
Amy Jean Roberts	....	costume supervisor
Mercedes Williamson	....	wardrobe assistant

Editorial Department
Milton Adamou	....	colorist
Philip Beckner	....	on-line editor
Barbara Busfield	....	assistant editor
Michael Cioni	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Paul Geffre	....	digital intermediate supervisor
Gabriel Thorburn	....	associate editor
Oscar Velasquez	....	post-production assistant

Music Department
Gerry Cueller	....	music supervisor
Greg Danylyshyn	....	music supervisor

Transportation Department
Britani Alexander	....	transportation coordinator
Larry Alexander	....	transportation captain
Hayley Badham	....	transportation coordinator assistant
Jason Barker	....	stakebed driver
James Buchanan	....	head driver
Cody Cross	....	truck driver
Peter Daniels	....	truck driver
Donald Draper	....	driver: grip truck
Jeff Fischer	....	transportation co-captain
Rafael Flores	....	truck driver
Benjamin J. Fox	....	additional driver
Bob Hoversten	....	driver: honeywagon
Darrell Karren	....	stakebed driver
Ryan McDowell	....	van driver
Jennifer Miller	....	additional driver
Thad Paget	....	van driver
Daniel Smithwick	....	truck driver
Anthony Stafford	....	truck driver
Michael Swidnicki	....	van driver
Stew Webster	....	additional driver

Other crew
Matthew Blackshear	....	data management
Jeremy Christiansen	....	intern
Denise Clarke	....	set medic
Perry L. Coomans	....	key craft service
Myke Dixon	....	data management
Maki Doolittle	....	set production assistant
Alex Farrington	....	set medic
Larry Filion	....	stand-in
Lorna M. Foley	....	set teacher
Robert Fyvolent	....	production legal
Terry Gaertner	....	production coordinator
Galen Gilbert	....	production coordinator: Los Angeles Unit
Nancy Govednik	....	first assistant accountant
Charles Heaphy	....	production financing
Mariah Breitel Hembree	....	post script services (as Mariah Breitel)
Matthew Jensen	....	chef (as Matt Jensen)
Joe Jurisic	....	stand-in
Dennis Light	....	location manager
Kristin Ludwin	....	script supervisor
Michael J. McCombs	....	chef assistant
Douglas W. McHenry	....	production accountant
Mike Miner	....	assistant production office coordinator
Jasmin Murray	....	set production assistant
Aaron Nelson	....	production assistant
Chris Nugent	....	assistant location manager
Paul Rehder	....	data management
Deidre Rigby	....	craft service assistant
Paul F. Ruegner	....	chef
Jessica Segura	....	stand-in
Joanne Valdez	....	production assistant
Joanne Valdez	....	stand-in
Juan Pablo Vasquez	....	chef assistant
Ryan Vega	....	data management
George A. Villalba	....	location crew
Tommy Woodard	....	film commission specialist: Utah

Thanks
Rahim Kazi	....	special thanks
Michael Prince	....	special thanks (as Mike Prince)

Production Companies

• Silver Nitrate
• Newmarket Capital Group
• Adam Fields Productions

Distributors

• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2010) (Australia) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (Blu-ray)
• 20th Century Fox de Argentina (2010) (Argentina) (all media)
• Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (2010) (Netherlands) (DVD)

Special Effects

• Digiart Productions

Other Companies

• Anarchy Post  sound post-production
• Animation Picture Company  visual effects
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera cranes
• Chapman/Leonard Studio Equipment  camera dollies
• Craze Agency, The  talent agency and representative (uncredited)
• Film Finances  completion guarantor
• Filter Films  epk production
• GoBig! Entertainment  music
• PalmStar Entertainment  casting
• Personalized Craft Service  craft service
• Pig Boys, The  catering
• Plastercity Digital Post  post-production facilities
• Redman Movies and Stories  camera crane
• Redman Movies and Stories  camera dolly
• Redman Movies and Stories  camera remote head
• Redman Movies and Stories  cameras
• Redman Movies and Stories  condors and lifts
• Redman Movies and Stories  expendables
• Redman Movies and Stories  generators
• Redman Movies and Stories  grip and lighting equipment
• Redman Movies and Stories  steadicam
• Redman Movies and Stories  trailers
• Redman Movies and Stories  trucks
• Soundtrack  ADR Facility

Also Known As:

"S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale" - USA (DVD box title)

MPAA:

Rated R for language, some violent content and brief drug use

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (Dolby 5.1)

Certification:

USA:R | UK:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | Australia:MA (2010) | Netherlands:12 | Brazil:12 | Mexico:B15 | Japan:PG12 | Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Delle, Utah, USA

Company:

Silver Nitrate

Trivia:

Samantha's gown was from designer Elsie Katz couture collection.

Goofs:

Continuity: After the church burns down, Samantha talks with Trudy in a bank. Behind Trudy and her co-worker is a door with a nameplate, reading Kathy Saques. The scene cuts back to Samantha, and then to Trudy and her co-worker again, where the nameplate is then blank. It subsequently returns to being filled out again after another cut.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Corey:Only two more good mornings.
Sam:Only one more day.
Corey:We're so perfect.
Sam:Immaculate.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in The Making of 's. Darko' (2009) (V)

Soundtrack:

Last Dance for Daddy

I Doubt Chris Fisher's Commitment to Sparkle Motion...

S. Darko is one of many sequels that has no reason to have been created at all. But even if one puts the original film out-of-mind, and only look at the sequel on it's own merits, the movie still falls completely flat.

The film picks up 7 years after the original left off, Samantha Darko and her friend Corey are on a cross-country trip heading for Los Angeles. When car problems leave them stuck in a little town by the name of Conejo Springs (which is populated by a community of horribly written character's), the girls are forced to mingle with the townies, and Corey finds herself at home with the boozy losers, while Samantha, still in pain over the death of her brother (Donnie), finds herself drawn to the Outsider by the name of Iraq Jack, a disturbed Gulf War vet who has learned through bizarre visions that the world is coming to an end on July 4th, 1995.

It seems that Nathan Atkins is a fan of Richard Kelly's work (including Southland Tales because the character of Iraq Jack seems similar to the character 'Pilot Abilene' & the end of the world date being on 'July 4th') But Atkins can't write believable dialogue to save his life. And the director 'Chris Fisher' doesn't seem to understand what made the original film so good, which was the feeling of being able to connect with the characters going through something this crazy. And if the audience doesn't care about the characters on-screen it becomes very hard for them to feel any effect of the narrative structure.

S. Darko is a hollow cash-grab by producers who must have never understood what Kelly was going for, but they now control the rights to the Darko universe, and they're hoping to collect any profit from this wannabe Donnie Darko replica.