19 Facts About Donnie Darko

Donnie Darko is a 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films.

Donnie Darko has visions of Frank, a mysterious figure in a rabbit costume who informs him that the world will end in just over 28 days.

Donnie Darko took an early idea of a jet engine falling onto a house with no one knowing its origin and built the story around it.

Donnie Darko wakes up the next morning on the green of a local golf course and returns home to discover a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom.

Thurman believes Donnie Darko is detached from reality, and that his visions of Frank are "daylight hallucinations, " symptomatic of paranoid schizophrenia.

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Monnitoff gives Donnie Darko The Philosophy of Time Travel, a book written by Roberta Sparrow, a former science teacher at the school who is a seemingly senile old woman living outside of town.

Donnie Darko starts seeing Gretchen Ross, who has recently moved into town with her mother under a new identity to escape her violent stepfather.

Donnie Darko later finds Cunningham's wallet and address, and Frank suggests setting his house on fire.

When Donnie Darko realizes that Frank's prophesied end of the world is only hours away, he takes Gretchen and two other friends to see Sparrow.

Donnie Darko borrows one of his parents' cars, loads Gretchen's body into it, and drives to a nearby ridge that overlooks town.

The New York Times honed in on the 1980s coming-of-age story aspect by observing the influence of John Hughes, noting the "ineffectual" adults and the fact that Donnie Darko's "suffering is a way to make him more sensitive".

Donnie Darko recalled a news story that he had read as a child, which he later called an urban legend, about a large piece of ice falling from the wing of a plane and crashing through a boy's bedroom, who was not there at the time and thus escaped death.

The first draft had Donnie Darko originally wake up at a shopping mall, rather than a golf course.

Donnie Darko considered such a broad disorder that is difficult to define was "a great way to ground a supernatural story" in a scientific sense.

McKittrick said Donnie Darko was "the challenging script in town that everybody wanted to make, but was too afraid".

Donnie Darko produced initial sketches of Frank's face and presented them to production designer Alex Hammond, who then made front and side drawings of the mask and sketches of the full suit.

Donnie Darko wanted to avoid going "too kitsch" with the style and costumes and retain a conservative style of the Virginia suburb.

Donnie Darko firing a gun became one of Kelly's biggest problems while finding a distributor, as the Columbine High School massacre from 1999 raised concerns of the film promoting teenage suicide.

Donnie Darko 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.