Richard Kelly

Quick Facts

Full Name	Richard Kelly
Occupation	Director
Date Of Birth	Mar 28, 1975(1975-03-28)
Age	49
Birthplace	Newport News
Country	United States
Birth City	Virginia
Horoscope	Aries

Richard Kelly Biography

Richard Kelly is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on March 28, 1975 in Newport News, Virginia, United States. Director of surreal independent films like Donnie Darko and Southland Tales.

His 2006 film Southland Tales starred Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Santaros.

Kelly was born James Richard Kelly in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly. He grew up in Midlothian, Virginia, where he attended Midlothian High School and graduated in 1993. When he was a child, his father worked for NASA on the Mars Viking Lander program. He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema- Television where he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He made two short films at USC, The Goodbye Place and Visceral Matter, before graduating in 1997.

In 2005 Kelly wrote the screenplay for the Tony Scott-directed film, Domino. Kelly has said, “That was a wonderful experience. I wrote that for Tony Scott. That was Tony Scott’s very personal project that he had spent eight years developing with Domino Harvey, a close friend of his and almost like a daughter to him. He had spent years trying to tell her story and so that for me, it was an honor for me to get to work with Tony and to write that script for him and to design this really elaborate puzzle for him to tell her story. So that was just a privilege.”

His father worked for NASA on the Mars Viking Lander program.

Richard Kelly Net Worth

Richard Kelly is one of the richest Director from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Richard Kelly 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television and graduated in 1997.

His feature-length debut Donnie Darko was ranked #2 on Empire magazine’s list of the 50 greatest independent films of all time.

James Richard Kelly (born March 28, 1975) is an American film director and writer, who wrote and directed the cult classic Donnie Darko in 2001.

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Who is Richard Kelly Dating?

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In an interview with PopMatters magazine in 2017, Kelly said in regards to doing an official sequel to Donnie Darko, “I’m open to doing something much bigger and longer and more ambitious that could be a new story,” Kelly said and then added, “We’ll see what happens. I have a lot of stuff that I’m working on and it’s ambitious and it’s expensive and we’ll see what happens.” In regards to the 2009 Donnie Darko sequel S. Darko Kelly has said, “I had nothing to do with it. And I hate it when people try and blame me or hold me responsible for it because I had no [involvement]. I don’t control the underlying rights to [the Donnie Darko franchise]. I had to relinquish them when I was 24 years old. I hate when people ask me about that because I’ve never seen it and I never will, so… don’t ask me about the sequel.” Despite this, he still has a characters writing credit in the film; which is to be expected, as some of the characters were those he created for the first film.

Facts & Trivia

Richard Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Richard Kelly celebrates birthday on March 28 of every year.

What happened to Richard Kelly Director?

Yes, Richard Kelly hasn’t directed a film in over a decade. According to an interview with The Independent, Kelly has worked on a number of projects without having his name credited. And he’s still committed to getting a project of his off the ground.

Why did Richard Kelly make Donnie Darko?

New sequel In January 2021, he announced that “an enormous amount of work” had been done on the script. He was inspired to do so after a 2010 meeting with James Cameron, who found the film “disturbing” and had Kelly explain what happened to Donnie at the end of the film.

How old is Richard Kelly?

47 years (March 28, 1975)

Who was the writer of Donnie Darko?

Richard Kelly

Is Frank Donnie Darko?

It is revealed that Frank is Donnie’s elder sister Elizabeth’s boyfriend , who (while out on a beer run) accidentally runs over Donnie’s girlfriend named Gretchen. Upon the sight of this, he is shot in the eye by Donnie to avenge the death of Gretchen.