This looks like a good one.. Philip K Dick and Richard Linklater..
and here's the older trailer:
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A Scanner Darkly (2005)
Starring: Mitch Baker, Melody Chase, Dameon Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Jack Cruz, Jason Douglas, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Heather Kafka, Marco Perella, Leila Plummer, Steven Prince, Angela Rawna, Keanu Reeves, Christopher Ryan, Christopher Ryan, Winona Ryder, Eliza Stevens, Rommel Sulit
Director: Richard Linklater
Rated: Unrated
U.S. Opening Date: T.B.A. 2005
It’s Keanu Reeves in one of author Philip K. Dick’s greatest novels. Whoa!
Even though Philip K. Dick’s work inspired some of the best-known and most beloved sci-fi movies there are (such as Blade Runner, Minority Report and Total Recall) the truth is that the true Dick-ian (don’t snigger you!) movie — reflecting the author’s metaphysical obsession with what reality is and what makes one human — has yet to be made.
The movie version of A Scanner Darkly might just be that movie.
For starters, it is based on one of Dick’s best works, one informed by Dick’s own painful experiences in the drug culture of California in the 1970s. It neatly balances Dick’s own autobiographical experiences, the narrative’s plot requirements and infuses it with Dick’s customary black humour. Yes, despite its bleak subject matter it is also quite funny...
...Secondly, it is directed by one of the more interesting directors working in Hollywood right now, namely Richard Linklater. Okay, Linklater flirted with the Dark Side when he directed Jack Black in the insipid School of Rock, but Linklater’s general filmography points towards more interesting and less mainstream fare: Dazed and Confused (1993), Before Sunrise (1995), Waking Life (2001) and Before Sunset (2004).
A Scanner Darkly would be filmed in the same as Linklater’s Waking Life: first as live action and then with animation over it. This might come to bad news for those audience members who reached for their Dramamine as the wave-y animation effects caused more seasickness than The Blair Witch Project or the latest Michael Bay movie. This is might not be still such a novel approach anymore, but still interesting and original enough in Hollywood terms...
