The trailer
for the film of A Scanner Darkly is online. Looks good on
Yahoo, or try this
direct download.
Everyone's talking about the rotoscope
visual effect, which is definitely cool and appropriate to the
story. But what's most exciting is that a new Philip K. Dick story is
being made into a film. And unlike other films there's no way to paper
over the schizophrenic horror of this story, so we should finally get
the unmedicated creepiness
that makes PK Dick novels
so great.
A Scanner Darkly is the most disturbing and
depressing of all his novels, particularly when you ignore the
scifi trappings. If they stick to the story, it's gonna be a hell of a film.
I worry about the cast. Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder. If they just add Christian Slater they'd have the Asstastic Five. But it could work. via BoingBoing
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