Southland Tales

"Southland Tales" is writer-director Richard Kelly's follow-up to "Donnie Darko," which I made every single one of you see.

The trailer is a friggin hot mess:

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809233751/video/4164037/


What to make of it? I don't know, but I'll see it. Hell, any trailer set to the Pixies' "Wave of Mutiliation" has got my $8. Plus I really to understand why Kelly felt the need to cast Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as his leading man.

Here's the plot summary, taken from imdb.com:
"California is at the epicenter of a political and environmental disaster that threatens to destroy the world in this ambitious fusion of comedy, drama, dystopia science fiction, and music. In the year 2005, a nuclear attack wipes out part of the state of Texas, and three years later America is a virtual police state, with the government taking control of nearly every part of people's lives, supposedly for their own good. A German firm has found a way to generate energy using seawater, but both public and private concerns are desperate to prevent the new technology from being introduced in the gasoline-starved United States. A Marxist underground based on the West Coast is determined to bring down the federal government through violent revolution. In this midst of this chaos, we follow a number of stories that continually return to three principle characters. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock) is an actor famous for his role in action films; he's trying to secure financing for a new project, but reality keeps mirroring the events in his script and he struggles to hold on to his identity following a bout with amnesia. Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar) is a porn star who is reinventing herself as a television pundit offering her views on politics, contemporary culture, and teenage sex. And Roland Taverner (Seann William Scott) is an L.A. police officer whose identity has mysteriously split in two and he struggles to track down his other half. "

How can this possibly work? Based on its reception at last year's Cannes Film Festival, it isn't, which is why Kelly is re-editing it for theatrical release this fall.