Few movies have inspired as much late-night theorizing as Donnie Darko. Richard Kelly’s 2001 cult classic follows Donnie, a troubled teenager who begins seeing visions of Frank, a stranger in a sinister bunny costume who warns him that the world will end in 28 days. From there, the film spirals through time travel, alternate realities, and apocalyptic visions before ending with Donnie’s death and the apparent collapse of the tangent universe.

Even after multiple viewings, Donnie Darko remains difficult to fully decode — and if anyone tells you they understand it fully, they're probably lying. That's part of why the film has maintained such a devoted following. Now, 25 years after the film’s release, Kelly is preparing to revisit that strange world.

As first reported by Variety, writer-director Richard Kelly is releasing a sequel book, The Philosophy of Time Travel, later this year. The approximately 800-page novel will be published by Range Literary Publishing and is expected to arrive in the fourth quarter, around the film’s 25th anniversary.

The book picks up 14 months after Donnie’s death and will be told through found documents, including material written from the perspectives of Donnie’s parents, Rose and Eddie. The story will follow the characters as they try to understand what happened to Donnie, the tangent universe and the strange events they collectively experienced.

Kelly has reportedly spent the past decade writing the book, but he has been working on a potential Donnie Darko sequel for more than 20 years.

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