Donnie Darko "Sequel" = WTF

[holden]

Folks, this is kinda old news, but if you missed it:

"Donnie Darko" (2001) is, if you haven't already seen it, one of the most thought-provoking, mind-blowingly good motion pictures of the last decade. Young-ish Jake Gyllenhall, sis Maggie (yum), Drew Barrymore, Patrick Swayze, Noah Wyle and others cope with alternate realities, time travel and Frank the Giant Bunny, all scored to a great 80's soundtrack (Tears for Fears, Echo and the Bunnymen(!), The Church, etc).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Darko

Now, some shmoes want to make a "sequel", based on Donnie's little sister Samantha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._Darko
original director Richard Kelly has stated he would not do a sequel, because the first film was rather close ended in plot, if not in themes/meaning. And Kelly has no connections with this new project.
Pretty much everyone on the interwebnetsphere agrees this is a crap idea, and it sounds very direct-to-video to me, not to mention sullying DD's good reputation.

is there anything remotely redeeming about this project?