Donnie Darko 2 aka sDarko Casting Update

Posted by: PuppetMaster

Hot off the heels of sharing the exclusive poster we now have the complete synopsis, director and casting details once again courtesy of the studio. First the synopsis which we hinted at earlier in the week. July 1995. Eighteen year-old classic beauty SAMANTHA DARKO and her rebellious best-friend COREY RICHARDSON’s cross-country road-trip to ‘make it big’ in Hollywood is cut short when their car’s water pump blows outside of a tiny desert town. Stranded with the locals until their car’s fixed, Sam and Corey are less than thrilled at the delay...

But after an unexplained meteorite crash-lands in town that night, it soon becomes clear that there is much more at play than just a chance breakdown. Plagued by bizarre hallucinatory dreams warning her of the universe’s eminent end, Sam must face the demons she has fled back home, and learn the true meaning of family and friendship, and in doing so, save both he herself and the world.

This next chapter of the Darko saga picks up with Samantha, Donnie’s younger sister, who, in the wake of his death, has found herself at 17 with a broken family, mired in feelings of insignificance, and with no aspirations for the future. The archetypal character study and genre mixing of Donnie Darko is reprised, but with a fresh spin on the roles within the Tangent Universe that warrants the telling of this darker, more jaded tale of tragedy, second chances, sacrifice and rebirth.

The cast goes like this;