Southland Tales director hopes to reunite with Dwayne Johnson for planned sequel
Image zoom After first-time filmmaker Richard Kelly's brilliant-but-strange 2001 movie Donnie Darko fizzled at the box office, another director might have followed it with something more obviously appetizing to Joe Public. Instead, Kelly doubled down on the weirdness and made Southland Tales. A sprawling sort-of post-apocalyptic science-fiction epic, the film starred Dwayne Johnson as a movie star named Boxer Santaros who writes a screenplay with Sarah Michelle Gellar's porn star Krista Now, which foretells the end of the world. Kelly's deep bench cast included Seann William Scott (portrayi...