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film: Keanu Reeves Starring in A Scanner Darkly

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Source: Variety
Tuesday, March 30, 2004

Keanu Reeves will star in A Scanner Darkly for Warner Independent
Pictures, with School of Rock helmer Richard Linklater in talks to direct,
reports Variety. Linklater wrote the most recent draft of the script.

George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Section 8 will produce the
film, an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel. A Scanner Darkly will
employ the same technology Linklater used in Waking Life. It will be
shot live-action, then animated.

The story takes place in the future, where undercover agents change their
faces along with their identities. Reeves plays one such officer, and his
liberal ingestion of the drug Substance D causes him to develop a split
personality.

Warner Independent is preparing the film for a May start.

I LOVE the book, not really sure about keanu in the lead role, but as people have pointed out he does have a good vacant expression, something the character calls for, charlie kaufman has already written the script, so if its half as good as his other ones, BJM,ADAPTATION,CONFESSIONS, OR HUMAN NATURE, it looks like this project might be somethig to really look forward to. would be intrested to know what others who have read the book think about it being made into a movie.
 
Kaufman and Linklater?

There's hope :)

A Scanner Darkly is in my top 3 Dick books - with Do Androids Dream... and Flow My Tears...

I think there's good potential for an adaptation. As long as they don't go the same route they did on all the other PKD films and turn it into some big budget extravaganza with lots of FX and explosions. If it's kept low-key, dark and paranoid, it could work.

Maybe like Fear and Loathing, but with a dark tone rather than a comic one?
 
^^^ indeed it is. if i was more sober i could give you a whole bunch of other stuff that he wrote, too ;)

anyway, woah, kaufman + dick + linklater = goodness, methinks. definitely liked the rotoscope (that's what it was called, iirc) animation in wl, too, and it could give a really interesting comic-like effect to this, which wouyld work quite well with the futuristic thematic elements.
 
I really like the little tidbits dick throws into his book (the mood organ from Do androids dream..., or the crazy accounts of the Nazi conquests in "the man in the high castle")

Hopefully, this adaptation will be replete with rich, odd references to the future.
 
With respect to drugs I think they would be able to do a crazier movie with The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.

And with mental illness I think Clans of the Alphane Moon would be absolutely amazing.

I just don't think anyone in Hollywood has the balls and/or creative talents to accurately render Dick's awesome vision onscreen without trying to retailor it to match up with what they think the movie going public want. That's the problem... it's sci-fi so it starts to get expensive and then you need to start justifying it.

blechhh...

i'll just continue my single-minded pursuit to get all his books.... 27 and counting.
 
MOS said:
Yeah, so I'm stupid - this is the same author as Minority Report and Blade Runner, no?
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Yeah, and Total Recall was based on a short story of his, and there was another film called Screamers that was also based on a short story. The films tend to lose a lot of the subtlety of the written work (Screamers missed the point completely), though I liked Blade Runner and Minority Report was pretty good.

nick44 makes some good points.
 
did anyone belive nick cage was going to be great in adaptation? (HAVE YOU SEEN CON-AIR?) ((con-air is one of my fav most cheesy guilty pleasure movies)) So Keanu Reeves might actually deliver.
 
Fried Man said:
did anyone belive nick cage was going to be great in adaptation? (HAVE YOU SEEN CON-AIR?) ((con-air is one of my fav most cheesy guilty pleasure movies)) So Keanu Reeves might actually deliver.
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At first I thought you were going to diss on con-air, but then you saved yourself. Smart move, or I might have had to throw you down onto a broke pipe - write a message on your chest and chuck you out of an airplane onto an elderly couples sedan...

Cheesy action/comedy movies RULE.

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After seeing the trailer on apple.com I cannot wait to see this movie, keanu has done good before...
 
It was a good pkd book, not my favorite, but good. I mean... that note at the end of the book (and its whole message) was just fucking absurd.

I wish they woulda ditched the rotoscoping in favor of just producing a really good movie, although I'm glad this rotoscoping looks more representational than waking life.

Also, I think Gary Busey needed a role in this movie.
 
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