Wired.com presents the Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

And here is your host, David Barr-Kirtley.

Hello and welcome to episode 249 of Geek's Guide to the Galaxy.

Our guest today is Richard Kelly, the writer, director behind the films Donnie Darko,

Southland Tales, and The Box.

And we'll be speaking with him about his new 4K restoration of

Donnie Darko which hits theaters this month and now here's our interview with

Richard Kelly. All right so we're here with Richard Kelly and welcome to

the show.

Thanks for having me.

Okay, so we're talking to you this week

because Donnie Darko is coming back to theaters.

So tell us about that.

Well, we did a restoration from the original negative at a 4K resolution and we did a lot of like very careful work restoring the image to its original quality and

this is a film that was barely released on screens in the year 2001 in a very limited way and a lot of people

have never seen it on the big screen and so Arrow Films which is a great company out of the United Kingdom

came to me and we had the resources to really bring this film back to

theaters in a way that no one seen before.

And are there any other differences between this and previous versions people might have seen,

or is it just the image quality has improved a lot?

Well, I would say the image quality overall is significantly improved, but we actually I did a little bit more visual effects work on the directors cut version of the film towards the end in some places where some things that weren't really finished properly in the version that we did in 2004.

So there's a little bit more visual enhancement, particularly, I say, in the directors cut.

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