Back to the Future Part II

Late last month, Nike unleashed the latest movie-themed sneaker, a yellow shoe with brown fur coming out of the top inspired by Teen Wolf (never mind that in the film the title character wears Adidas). Between this and the recent Back to the Future Part II tie-ins, Michael J. Fox seems to be a big influence on the world of sneaker collecting, and so it may only be a matter of time before we see Nike unveil a Doc Hollywood design. Actually, it may only be a matter of time before we see a lot of film-inspired shoes we wouldn’t expect. Already, <a href="http://www.sneakerf ...
Christopher Campbell

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Now to start off no one can say that remakes and sequels are a new thing - it’s a notion that has been around for almost a hundred years. The first example of either (that I could find) being 1916’s Fall of a Nation (a sequel to the of 1915 film Birth of a Nation).
But lately (perhaps over the last 15 years or so), they have come not only to full fruition and thus extremely noticeable as a trend - but also they seem to be getting made left, right and center. Now why is that? Why is that it’s only recently that it’s become so popular to remake or make a sequel out of something?
Well let’s start with remakes…


The earliest remake (again, that I could find - I apologize if I’ve overlooked something) is 1919’s Marked Men (a remake of the 1916 film The
Ross Miller

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The director of this new Donnie Darko tale talks about this continuation of the classic Richard Kelly film.
Chris Fisher has worked in both TV and film before, directing films such as Dirty and also episodes for TV shows such as Chuck and Cold Case. Now he's going back into the world director Richard Kelly created in his 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko with the straight-to-dvd sequel, S. Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale, which will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on May 12. I had the chance to speak with Fisher over the phone about his new film, and here's what he had to say.
I was first curious about how you first learned about this project and what got you interested in taking the helm for this?
Chris Fisher: I first heard of it when my agent called me and said that a company had a new script that

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