chunk of ice fell from an airliner onto his neighbor’s house, and a young Kell…years out of USC film school, Kelly envisioned a sci-fi, horror blockbuster for his debut in Darko. He wrote the final script in less than a month, but the germination of the story began in Kelly’s childhood. A chunk of ice fell from an airliner onto his neighbor’s house, and a young Kelly started thinking of a plot around this event.