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Date: 1/1/2009
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It hasn’t been easy for writer/director Richard Kelly lately. Lauded heavenwards after the critical, commercial and cult success of Donnie Darko in 2002, he then spent nigh on five years writing, filming, showing, re-editing, re-editing and then releasing Southland Tales to a whimper rather than a bang. Time to draw a line and move on to The Box, the director’s adap of I Am Legend author Richard Matheson’s short story Button, Button…
“It doesn’t need to be over two hours, it’s a very efficient thriller! It’s going to be rated PG-13. I want to scare the crap out of people,” he told Buzz exclusively last year over sandwiches on Venice Beach, excited about moving onto his third feature. And that was before Cameron Diaz signed on as Norma Lewis, one half of a married couple (alongside James Marsden’s Arthur) who receive a mysterious wooden box with a button. If they push it, the pair will receive a huge amount of money, but someone, somewhere will die…
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