Donnie Darko ranks ninth in FilmFour’s 50 Films to See Before You Die.
It also came in at number 14 on Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 50 Best High School Movies and landed at number 2 in their “Greatest Independent Films of All Time” list.
Sequel
Main article: S. Darko
A 2009 sequel, S. Darko, centers on Samantha Darko, Donnie’s younger sister. Again played by Daveigh Chase, Samantha begins to have strange dreams that hint at a major catastrophe. Donnie Darko creator Richard Kelly has stated that he has no involvement in this sequel, as he does not own the rights to the original. Daveigh and producer Adam Fields are the only creative links between it and the original film. The sequel received mostly negative reviews.
Adaptations
Marcus Stern, Associate Director of the American Repertory Theater, directed a staged adaptation of Donnie