Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise
provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has circled Apr. 18 on its release
calendar for the delivery of a new 4K restoration, from the original camera
negatives, of writer/director Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko: Limited Edition.
It will come in the form of double-double disc Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack featuring both the original 2001 theatrical cut and the 2004
director’s cut of the film.
Bonus features include three commentary options — filmmaker
Richard Kelly with actor Jake Gyllenhaal (theatrical cut), Kelly, producer Sean
McKittrick and actors Drew Barrymore, Jena Malone, Beth Grant, Mary McDonnell,
Holmes Osborne, Katharine Ross and James Duval (also for the theatrical cut)
and filmmaker Richard Kelly is joined by fellow filmmaker Kevin Smith for
commentary on the director’s cut of the film.
Arrow Video also has, as a bonus nugget, the newly-prepared
feature-length documentary from filmmaker Daniel Griffith titled Deus
ex Machina: The Philosophy of Donnie Darko included in the mix.
Other bonus selections include deleted and alternate scenes
(with optional commentary by Richard Kelly), the 2004 documentary titled The
Donnie Darko Production Diary (53 minutes in length), a trio of vintage
featurettes — “They Made Me Do It,” “They Made Me Do It Too” and “#1 Fan: A
Darkomentary” — and archived video sessions with filmmaker Richard Kelly, the
production team of Sean McKittrick, Nancy Juvonen, Hunt Lowry and Casey La
Scala, cinematographer Steven Poster and actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie
Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone, Drew Barrymore, James Duval, Holmes Osborne, Noah Wyle
and Katharine Ross.
And we are not yet!!!
There are also storyboard comparisons, some B-roll footage, “Cunning
Visions” infomercials, still galleries, Richard Kelly’s 1996 short film, The
Goodbye Place and the Gary Jules music video, “Mad World.”
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