NEWS: Kelly To Open THE BOX A Year Late!
Jun. 25According to JoBlo, Writer/Director Richard Kelly (of lauded Donnie Darko and lambasted Southland Tales fame), has been forced to sit back and watch his third feature, The Box open a year later than anticipated. The Warner Bros. film - starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella, is now slated for a September 11, 2009 release (nice memorial huh?)
Diaz and Marsden Ponder the Ramifications of Opening The Box!
The picture is based on the musings of famed author Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" which was first published in the June edition of Playboy Magazine in 1970. The story centers on a couple who mysteriously receive a wooden box on their doorstep. Opening the box instantly rewards the couple with a mass of wealth, yet unbeknown to them, opening the box also kills a random stranger. Of course they crack the seal and all horrifying hell busts out. With their own young child and only a 24 hour window to quell the madness, the couple is faced with a moral dilemma that will alter the course of their lives forever. Let's just hope there is more intentional fright in this picture than there was unintentional fright in Kelly's last effort Southland Tales.
"Button, Button" was also adapted into a 1986 Twilight Zone episode starring Basil Hoffman, under the title "Profile in Silver/Button, Button."
Comments
God, even that picture looks bad. Guessing it will be terrible.
I didn't see Southland Tales but I did however see and enjoy I am Legend (like The Box, it was also based on Richard Matheson's fiction) and Donnie Darko. Plus Cameron Diaz is hot.
A full year delay? Yikes. The good thing about this is they'll have more than enough time to make sure the final product is as polished as can be. Should be interesting to see how The Box turns out.
God, even that picture looks bad. Guessing it will be terrible.
LOL - My thoughts weren't too far off - yet as a Darko and Matheson fan, I'm keeping my breath held. As EoE pointed out, they might actually need that 1 year delay.
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