Richard Linklater

A SCANNER DARKLY IMAGES AND NEWS…

If you’ve been reading this blog from the beginning, you’ll know that I’m really looking forward to Rick Linklater’s adaptation of one of Philip K. Dick’s best books, A Scanner Darkly. The folks at Ain’t It Cool News (which, frankly, kicked all of our asses when it comes to online coverage of Sundance) have some exclusive pics from the movie up, and now ifilm has posted a seriously cool trailer as well. To top it off, a simple Google search revealed this interesting “making of” A Scanner Darkly blog which seems to contain posts from various people involved in the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Feb 22, 2005
A SCANNER DARKLY NEWS

For Philip K. Dick fans out there — and I’m one of them — there’s a lot of excitement surrounding Richard Linklater’s new film, A Scanner Darkly. Based on one of Dick’s best books, the film promises to capture the Dick-ian mindset, with its mixture of philosophical paranoia, ’70s drug-era existentialism, and topsy turvy identity questioning, in a way that none of the other Dick adaptations (Bladerunner, Total Recall, Minority Report, etc., have done. Jason Koornick has long operated a Philip K. Dick fansite which recently went “official” with the participation of the Dick estate. On the site, there’s now […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jun 14, 2004
IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES

There was interesting news in Variety today — Rick Linklater has been greenlit by Warner Independent Pictures and New York’s Thousand Words to film his adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s great A Scanner Darkly, which will star Keanu Reeves in his first post-Matrix trilogy project. An earlier script was penned by Charlie Kaufman, and the good folks at Muse Productions had the option once — and still list a Chris Cunningham-directed version on their website. Now, however, Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney’s Section 8 are producing the current project with Thousand Words. Most interesting is the note that the movie […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 30, 2004

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