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{{Infobox Film| name = Southland Tales| image = Southland Tales poster.jpg| caption = Promotional poster for Southland Tales| director = Richard Kelly (director)| producer = Sean McKittrick
Bo Hyde
Kendall Morgan| writer = Richard Kelly| starring = Dwayne Johnson
Seann William Scott
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Justin Timberlake
Wallace Shawn
Miranda Richardson
Mandy Moore
Kevin Smith
John Larroquette
Jon Lovitz| distributor = [Samuel Goldwyn Films
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (DVD)
Universal Studios| released = November 14, 2007 in film| runtime = 137 min.| country = | language = English language| budget = $15–17 million| website = http://www.southlandtales.com/| amg_id = 1:325848| imdb_id = 0405336-->

Southland Tales is a 2007 in film science fiction / drama film, written and directed by Richard Kelly (director). The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex. The film features an ensemble cast headed by The Rock (entertainer), Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and also featuring Miranda Richardson, Cheri Oteri, Christopher Lambert, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake and fellow film director Kevin Smith. Original music for the film will be provided by Moby. The film is MPAA rating system#Ratings for profanity, violence, sexual material, and some drug use.http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=13204

Variety (magazine) has reported Samuel Goldwyn Films in partnership with Destination Films and Sony Pictures will release Southland Tales and has listed a release date of November 14, 2007.

Tagline:: This is the way the world ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.

Plot El Paso and Abilene, Texas have fallen victim to twin nuclear attacks on July 4, 2005 – a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which sent America into war. The Patriot Act has been upgraded to a new agency known as US-IDENT, which keeps constant tabs on citizens – even to the extent of censoring the internet and using fingerprints in order to access computers and bank accounts. In order to be able to respond to a newfound fuel scarcity, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy which is propelled by ocean currents. Unbeknownst to them, the generators alter the currents and cause the Earth to spiral out of control through space, ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.

In Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos, we follow the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ex-porn star in the midst of reconverting; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (both played by Seann William Scott), whose destinies – on one evening – become intertwined with that of all mankind.

Cast

Production Writer-director Richard Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the original script involved blackmail, a porn star, and two cops. Since the attacks, Kelly revised the script. He described the update, " original script was more about making fun of Hollywood. But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them."

Southland Tales was described to take place in Los Angeles in the summer of 2008, during a three-day heat wave that leads up to the 4th of July celebration. Kelly described the film, " Tales will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments." Kelly has stated that the film's biggest influences are Kiss Me Deadly, Pulp Fiction (film), Brazil (film) and Dr. Strangelove. He also calls it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick".

In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales. Filmmakers entered negotiations with actors Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Lee, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Blake Nelson, Amy Poehler, Kevin Smith and Ali Larter to be cast into the film. Filmmakers also contacted musician Moby for the possibility of composing and performing the film's score.

Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, filming had not begun on Southland Tales. Actor Dwayne Johnson joined the cast in April 2005, and principal photography was slated to begin August 1 2005 in Los Angeles. Filming for Southland Tales began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around United States dollar15–17 million.

Southland Tales premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 with a length of 160 minutes. After the film's festival release, Southland Tales was purchased by Sony Pictures. Kelly sought more financing to finish visual effects for the film, and he negotiated a deal with Sony to cut down on the film's length in exchange for funds to complete the visual effects. Kelly edited the film down to the basic storylines of the characters portrayed by Scott, Gellar, and Johnson. The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers (band). Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut.

Marketing Southland Tales was initially planned to be a nine-part "interactive experience", with the first six parts published in six 100-page graphic novels that would be released in a six-month period up to the film's release. The feature film comprises of the final three parts of the experience. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. The idea of six graphic novels was later narrowed down to three. The novels were written by Kelly and illustrated by Brett Weldele.



They have been collected together into one single volume:

The titles of the parts in the movie are:

Release Cannes Film Festival Along with two other American filmmakers (Sofia Coppola with Marie-Antoinette (film) and Richard Linklater with Fast Food Nation (film)), Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko was in competition for the coveted Palme d'Or during 2006.

Critical reaction to the movie in its original, longer form was mostly negative. Many American critics responded unfavorably to the film's long running time and sprawling nature. Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir, for example, called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen." Jason Solomons in The Observer said that "Southland Tales was so bad it made me wonder if had ever met a human being" and that ten minutes of the "sprawling, plotless, post-apocalyptic farrago" gave him the "sinking feeling that this may be one of the worst films ever presented in competition." A handful of the American and European critics, however, were far more positive. Links to many post-Cannes reviews, including multiple positive reviews by American, French, Spanish, Polish, and other reviewers. Village Voice critic J. Hoberman, for example, called Southland Tales "a visionary film about the end of times" comparable in recent American film only to David Lynch's acclaimed Mulholland Drive (film).

Theatrical release Southland Tales will be released in the United States on November 9, 2007 in partnership with Destination Films and Sony Pictures.It will also be released in the UK on December 7, 2007. As of October 12, 2007, the film was pushed back five days to November 14.http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=13204

Trailer The trailer for the film was released on September 20, 2007 and can be found here. It contains lines from T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men", as well as music by The Pixies ("Wave of Mutilation") and Elbow (band) ("Forget Myself").

References External links

{{Infobox Film| name = Southland Tales| image = Southland Tales poster.jpg| caption = Promotional poster for Southland Tales| director = Richard Kelly (director)| producer = Sean McKittrick
Bo Hyde
Kendall Morgan| writer = Richard Kelly| starring = Dwayne Johnson
Seann William Scott
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Justin Timberlake
Wallace Shawn
Miranda Richardson
Mandy Moore
Kevin Smith
John Larroquette
Jon Lovitz| distributor = [Samuel Goldwyn Films
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (DVD)
Universal Studios| released = November 14, 2007 in film| runtime = 137 min.| country = | language = English language| budget = $15–17 million| website = http://www.southlandtales.com/| amg_id = 1:325848| imdb_id = 0405336-->

Southland Tales is a 2007 in film science fiction / drama film, written and directed by Richard Kelly (director). The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex. The film features an ensemble cast headed by The Rock (entertainer), Seann William Scott and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and also featuring Miranda Richardson, Cheri Oteri, Christopher Lambert, Mandy Moore, Justin Timberlake and fellow film director Kevin Smith. Original music for the film will be provided by Moby. The film is MPAA rating system#Ratings for profanity, violence, sexual material, and some drug use.http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=13204

Variety (magazine) has reported Samuel Goldwyn Films in partnership with Destination Films and Sony Pictures will release Southland Tales and has listed a release date of November 14, 2007.

Tagline:: This is the way the world ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.

Plot El Paso and Abilene, Texas have fallen victim to twin nuclear attacks on July 4, 2005 – a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which sent America into war. The Patriot Act has been upgraded to a new agency known as US-IDENT, which keeps constant tabs on citizens – even to the extent of censoring the internet and using fingerprints in order to access computers and bank accounts. In order to be able to respond to a newfound fuel scarcity, the German company Treer designs a generator of inexhaustible energy which is propelled by ocean currents. Unbeknownst to them, the generators alter the currents and cause the Earth to spiral out of control through space, ripping holes in the fabric of space and time.

In Los Angeles, a city on the brink of chaos, we follow the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson), an action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), ex-porn star in the midst of reconverting; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner (both played by Seann William Scott), whose destinies – on one evening – become intertwined with that of all mankind.

Cast

Production Writer-director Richard Kelly wrote Southland Tales shortly before the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the original script involved blackmail, a porn star, and two cops. Since the attacks, Kelly revised the script. He described the update, " original script was more about making fun of Hollywood. But now it's about, I hope, creating a piece of science fiction that's about a really important problem we're facing, about civil liberties and homeland security and needing to sustain both those things and balance them."

Southland Tales was described to take place in Los Angeles in the summer of 2008, during a three-day heat wave that leads up to the 4th of July celebration. Kelly described the film, " Tales will only be a musical in a post-modern sense of the word in that it is a hybrid of several genres. There will be some dancing and singing, but it will be incorporated into the story in very logical scenarios as well as fantasy dream environments." Kelly has stated that the film's biggest influences are Kiss Me Deadly, Pulp Fiction (film), Brazil (film) and Dr. Strangelove. He also calls it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick".

In March 2004, Kelly and Cherry Road Films began development of Southland Tales. Filmmakers entered negotiations with actors Seann William Scott, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Lee, Janeane Garofalo, Tim Blake Nelson, Amy Poehler, Kevin Smith and Ali Larter to be cast into the film. Filmmakers also contacted musician Moby for the possibility of composing and performing the film's score.

Filming was slated to begin in July 2004, but after a year, filming had not begun on Southland Tales. Actor Dwayne Johnson joined the cast in April 2005, and principal photography was slated to begin August 1 2005 in Los Angeles. Filming for Southland Tales began on August 15, 2005, with a budget of around United States dollar15–17 million.

Southland Tales premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2006 with a length of 160 minutes. After the film's festival release, Southland Tales was purchased by Sony Pictures. Kelly sought more financing to finish visual effects for the film, and he negotiated a deal with Sony to cut down on the film's length in exchange for funds to complete the visual effects. Kelly edited the film down to the basic storylines of the characters portrayed by Scott, Gellar, and Johnson. The director also sought to keep the musical number performed by Timberlake, based on "All These Things That I've Done" by The Killers (band). Editorial changes were made to restructure the order of the film's scenes, including re-recording all of Timberlake's voice-over. The director also added 90 new visual effects shots to the film and removed 20 to 25 minutes of footage from his initial cut.

Marketing Southland Tales was initially planned to be a nine-part "interactive experience", with the first six parts published in six 100-page graphic novels that would be released in a six-month period up to the film's release. The feature film comprises of the final three parts of the experience. A website was also developed to intertwine with the graphic novels and the film itself. The idea of six graphic novels was later narrowed down to three. The novels were written by Kelly and illustrated by Brett Weldele.



They have been collected together into one single volume:

The titles of the parts in the movie are:

Release Cannes Film Festival Along with two other American filmmakers (Sofia Coppola with Marie-Antoinette (film) and Richard Linklater with Fast Food Nation (film)), Kelly's follow-up to Donnie Darko was in competition for the coveted Palme d'Or during 2006.

Critical reaction to the movie in its original, longer form was mostly negative. Many American critics responded unfavorably to the film's long running time and sprawling nature. Salon.com critic Andrew O'Hehir, for example, called the Cannes cut "about the biggest, ugliest mess I've ever seen." Jason Solomons in The Observer said that "Southland Tales was so bad it made me wonder if had ever met a human being" and that ten minutes of the "sprawling, plotless, post-apocalyptic farrago" gave him the "sinking feeling that this may be one of the worst films ever presented in competition." A handful of the American and European critics, however, were far more positive. Links to many post-Cannes reviews, including multiple positive reviews by American, French, Spanish, Polish, and other reviewers. Village Voice critic J. Hoberman, for example, called Southland Tales "a visionary film about the end of times" comparable in recent American film only to David Lynch's acclaimed Mulholland Drive (film).

Theatrical release Southland Tales will be released in the United States on November 9, 2007 in partnership with Destination Films and Sony Pictures.It will also be released in the UK on December 7, 2007. As of October 12, 2007, the film was pushed back five days to November 14.http://www.comingsoon.net/films.php?id=13204

Trailer The trailer for the film was released on September 20, 2007 and can be found here. It contains lines from T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men", as well as music by The Pixies ("Wave of Mutilation") and Elbow (band) ("Forget Myself").

References External links



 

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