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Sarah is to star in a film called "Southland Tales"

The plot outline given on IMDB was
A musical/comedy set in 2008 where a three-day heatwave in Los Angeles culminates in a huge Fourth of July party.
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She'll be co-starring with Seann William Scott, Jason Lee and Ali Larter!!

It's currently in post production and will be out sometime in 2005.
 
I'm the editor for that movie on movietome.If you'd like some more info on the movie, please check out the page on movietome.
 
Gellar Heads To Southland

Sarah Michelle Gellar told SCI FI Wire that her next film looks likely to be Southland Tales, which was written and will be directed by Donnie Darko auteur Richard Kelly. "I had seen Donnie Darko, and I thought Richard Kelly was pretty much a genius," Gellar said in an interview while promoting her upcoming horror film, The Grudge. "We met and he told me this idea he had for his follow-up film."

Gellar added that she took the role based on the original ideas in the script. "I pretty much would have said yes blindly, but it was just such a great character, and he just had so many great ideas that it was something I was definitely interested in doing. It's impossible to explain, really. If someone hadn't seen Donnie Darko, or didn't know anything about it, could you imagine trying to describe it? 'OK, it's about a boy and this imaginary bunny?' Richard Kelly's movies are so abstract that they're somewhat difficult to pigeonhole. But Southland Tales is basically [set] over a Fourth of July weekend during an election year, and it's about the chaos in the future [in 2008], and what happens to Hollywood. It's sort of a biting comment on our tabloid society. Does that work?"

Gellar said that the film doesn't have the same kind of SF and fantasy elements as Donnie Darko, but it's still a work in progress. "Not as much as Donnie Darko. There are no imaginary talking bunnies, at least not yet. There may be talking bunnies by the time we film it." Southland Tales will be released in 2005.

Source: http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-10/05/14.00.film
 
I've found some news on Sarah, and her role on the movie.


Gellar Won't Sing in Kelly's 'Southland' Musical

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to star in the upcoming "Southland Tales," helmed by "Donnie Darko" writer/director Richard Kelly. But the actress tells Zap2it.com that she wont be singing in the mysterious film pitched as a comedy/musical/thriller.

"No, you can all rest assured that I will not [sing]," says the 27-year old actress. Although Gellar belted out a few tunes during her TV "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" days, she has no plans to revisit the experience. "That was the most miserable experience of my entire [life]," she says after explaining that she only had three weeks to prepare for her song.

But even though "Southland Tales," doesn't begin shooting until early next year, it's not enough time for Gellar to prepare, saying, "For singing [that's] probably not enough."

Gellar remains tight lipped about who will sing in the film that also stars Seann William Scott, Jeanne Garofalo and writer/director Kevin Smith.

However, Gellar does take a stab at explaining the musical comedy's plot which revolves around a Los Angeles heatwave in 2008 that results in a massive Fourth of July party.

"It's less strange than 'Donnie Darko' -- that's kind of an obvious statement -- a lot more characters, a lot more interwoven story but again it's all in Richard Kelly's head. I would not do justice," she says.

"Can you imagine trying to explain 'Donnie Darko' to people before they saw it? 'Okay, it's about a guy and there's this six-foot imaginary bunny,'" she laughs. "Richard Kelly to me is just a genius."

"Donnie Darko" stars siblings Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal and was released in 2001, but re-released again in theaters with an editor's cut this summer after becoming an instant cult hit among college students.

Source: http://www.zap2it.com/movies/news/story/0,1259,---23189,00.html
 
Kelly Preps SF Southland Tales

Director Richard Kelly (Donnie Darko) told SCI FI Wire that he's set to make his sophomore film effort, Southland Tales, which should go into production this spring with Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott in the leads. "Without giving too much away it's a big social satire, but it's also a black comedy, and it combines elements of science fiction and thrillers and even musicals," Kelly said in an interview. "So it's a hybrid."

Kelly, who scored a cult hit with his big-screen debut, Donnie Darko, added, "When I try to explain [Southland Tales] to people, they kind of go, 'Whaaat?' They don't understand what I'm trying to do. Hopefully when people see it all assembled they'll get what I'm trying to do. But it's very hard to explain now. It's just a big, provocative epic story that's much more elaborate and complicated, I would say, than Donnie Darko, but in the same spirit of adventurousness, though on a completely different level. I definitely don't want to repeat myself. I'm done with teen alienation. I'm done with the '80s. I'm ready to move on to other eras now."
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coolie. i love ali larter and seann william scott. what a great cast! i'll be looking out for this one for sure!
 
The shooting of Southland Tales started Monday 15 August.

Some updates on the movie:

She a blonde in the movie with lots of make-up, it's a wig cause she's a brunette in this pics taken a few days ago.

Sarah's character Krysta has her own website.

South Land Tales Blog:
Amazing work by the actors. Sarah is very sharp in her delivery and she definitely has the role of Krysta Now down. It's great how she can move from hysterically ditzy to dramatically serious. Krysta's not a one dimensional character. Seann is incredibly friendly and really excited to be part of the film. The respect he has for Richard is very obvious. Fortunately he's able to work his shooting schedule around press for Dukes of Hazzard. Just like Sarah, he has the part down pat.
 
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Thanks for the updates.
I heard about this movie a while ago and thought it sounded good and then I came here and read some more about it and now it sounds Greeeaatt!! as Tony the tiger would say. Anyways, I love that my favorite actress(SMG) and a couple of my favorite actors (Seann W. Scott and Jason Lee) are both in it!
 
The rest of the cast has been anounced:

Sarah Michelle Gellar - Krysta Now
The Rock - Boxer Santaros
Sean William Scott - David Clark
Kevin Smith - Simon Theory
Janeane Garofalo - General Tina McArthur
Cheri Oteri - Zora Carmichaels
Jill Ritchie - Shoshana Cox
Amy Poehler
Lou Taylor Pucci
Nora Dunn
Miranda Richardson
John Larroquette
Jon Lovitz
Will Sasso
Wood Harris
Bai Ling
Wallace Shawn
Joe Campana
 
Overview of the confirmed cast made by Gunji - richard-kelly.net



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SMG looks so cute in these pics...but then again, she's always beautiful.
i have one question though...is The Rock gonna sing? coz i'd pday BIG money to see that!! LOL 😀
 
Sarah might be singing in Southland Tales



interview

Sarah Michelle Gellar on Her Southland Tales Character: “I am a porn star with a heart of gold. I’m also a porn star with an entrepreneurial spirit. I have my own clothing lines, my own album dropping, my own lubricant line, energy drink. I also represent Golden Palace Casino. I’m sure I have a perfume. I figure I’ve gotta have a perfume. Everyone’s got a perfume. Oh, my reality show. We forgot the reality show. I also have my own reality show and I guess that kind of goes with it. If you say I’m a pornstar, clearly I have my own reality show.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar on Understanding the Story of Southland Tales: “Oh my God, you have to understand that if you’re on this film long enough, you actually confuse yourself. There were two characters getting shot the other day and we got into a 25 minute discussion, no joke. We couldn’t remember who shot whom? But also the names keep changing because of clearances, so on top of the fact that we couldn’t quite organize which character was shot, we couldn’t even remember their names.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar Has the Easy Story in Southland Tales: “Maybe it’s because I’ve been involved for so long and I’ve been through a lot of the drafts, or maybe it’s because my character probably has the simplest arc of any of the characters. I am a girl that wants to be famous in our disposable society which I think is very easy to understand in this country and I love the boy. My story is probably the easiest arc because everything I do is either for my career or for the person that I love. So I have the easy one. So yes, I understand my role.

Sarah Michelle Gellar on the Richard Kelly Experience in Southland Tales: “No matter how many films you’ve done, television series, whatever, nothing prepares you for Richard Kelly. He calls me over the weekend, he’s like, ‘Okay, I think in this scene that Krista should have a complete emotional breakdown. We need to write- - We, as if I’m going to write this- - I think we need to write this whole thing when she sees this…’ it goes on and on with me on the weekend. I’m like, 'Okay, sure, whatever you write, I’ll do it.' I come in on Wednesday, he cuts the scene.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar on Southland Tales Research: “In this day and age, everything is so cross-marketed that the lines have blurred in my opinion between what is an actor and what is a celebrity, what is reality. All you have to do is pick up a magazine or turn on the television and you can get ideas from places that five years ago you couldn’t. Is that a politically correct answer?"

Sarah Michelle Gellar Might Sing in Southland Tales: “That’s something that’s being discussed.Originally, I was a different character and so I did not sing.I used to be in a musical on roller skates, but I was a roller skater.But that got cut from the film which I’m so bitter about.It was a Karl Marxism musical on roller skates which I thought was genius and people were really calling for.I was getting my roller skates and legwarmers and shorts all ready.And then my character was a rapper and I was going to rap, but now my character has a song.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar Reacts to News of I Always Know What You Did Last Summer: “What? You guys are making this up. You guys are all kidding. That sounds like one of those jokes that we all made behind the scenes.”

Sarah Michelle Gellar's Upcoming Projects:
Alice: “No, not next."

Girl’s Guide to Hunting and Fishing: "That would be early next year."

The Grudge 2: "Good question. I don't think they’re anywhere near. I still can’t figure out if I’m alive or dead. I’m still working that one out. Basically I only like to choose films that I don’t understand. As long as they’re greater than my mental capacity, I figure I gotta be doing something artful, right? Isn’t that what makes something art when you don’t understand it?"


Another Film Called Revolver?: "I think it had to do with the Guy Ritchie film but the Guy Ritchie film isn’t distributed here yet, so I don't know who actually has the rights to the title. Really it’s a thriller. I think in our tendency to try to categorize things and whatever’s popular at the moment, if romantic comedies come back really big next week, it’ll be a romantic thriller. It’ll be a romantic comedy thriller. And then it’ll be slapstick next week. It’ll be a slapstick thriller. It’ll be a Keystone Cops thriller."

Sarah Michelle Gellar on Richard Kelly's Pitch for Southland Tales:
“ I was originally playing Amy Poehler’s character and Amy Poehler was playing my character. Richard called one day and said, ‘I want to pitch this movie to you’ and I said, ‘Great, I’m going to Japan tomorrow and I’ll be back in two months and that’d be great.’ He said, ‘No, tomorrow.’ And I was like, ‘I’m going to the airport’ he’s like, ‘I’ll meet you there.’ I didn’t even know him. I was like, ‘You’re kidding, right? Could you just send me the script?’ He said, ‘No, no, I have to explain it to you, it’s visual, I have to show it to you.’ And I was like, ‘Who is this crazy person?’

So I went and had lunch with him before I went to the airport and he pitched this spectacular idea. My favorite part of this whole story is we must have met for about three hours. And he brought video footage to show me these visuals and colors and sketches and all this and my character, she wants to be this actress but she’s struggling because she’s working at CPK but she knows she has a greater gift and her dad is supporting her, she’s cutting an album. So I get on the airplane to read it, my character died in the first 30 pages in that draft. And I was like, ‘I spent three hours and I die in the first 30 pages?’

It just showed how spectacularly enriched Richard’s ideas were because everything was so fully developed to him. I signed on instantly before I even read it actually, after meeting with him because he’s so impressive when you speak with him and his ideas and he wants so badly to do something that’s different. Not as an actor but as someone that goes to the movies, you’re so desperate for anything that’s inventive, that’s different, that isn’t conventional, where someone’s not afraid to try something.

And then through that course my role got bigger and as he started to change ideas, he had this idea that the Krista character would be in love with Boxer and through different things we just realized that Amy and I would probably be better off swapping.”
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SMG: but now my character has a song. I think she means this song
 
From pictures ive seen, looks like The Rock will also be in this movie with SMG as a little love intrest which seems very intresting since I never thought I would see those two in the same movie.
 
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