The Rock Meets Buffy in Richard Kelly's World

Posted on May 5, 2005

Dwayne Johnson, better known to wrestling fans as The Rock, will meet up with Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Sarah Michelle Gellar and Seann William Scott to star in Southland Tales, a science fiction thriller about the apocalyptic state of Los Angeles on July 4, 2008. Writer/director Richard Kelly (who is best known for writing the indie cult classic, Donnie Darko) will adapt the film from the series of graphic novels, also to be written by Kelly.

The graphic novels will be released in the six months before the film's opening. Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor is slated to do the music for the film, with an assist from Moby, which is probably the oddest musical pairing we've heard of in awhile. Kelly describes the script as "30% comedy, 30% musical, 30% thriller, and 10% science fiction." The tentative release date is summer, 2006.