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No Light Yet For "Scanner Darkly"

According to the SciFi Channel, Warner Independent Pictures has yet again bumped the release date of its much-delayed sci-fi film "A Scanner Darkly." Most recently, the film was slated for release in March. However, that has been bumped to July, a spokeswoman told Sci Fi Wire's sister publication Science Fiction Weekly. No word on why the film was pushed back again.

"A Scanner Darkly," based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, was originally scheduled to come out last September, but then was moved to March 31 of this year.

In the film, director Richard Linklater - who also penned the screenplay - overlays live-action photography with advanced animation (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a "haunting highly stylized vision of the future." This technology was first used by Linklater in his 2001 movie "Waking Life." Delays in the "sophisticated animation process" were cited when the movie was pushed to March from September of last year.

Perhaps Linklater is just being SUPER careful with this film. There are a lot of rabid PKD fans out there who will roast him if the film is a poor adaptation of Dick's vision.

According to Warner, the film is set in suburban Orange County, Calif., in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop (Keanu Reeves) is ordered to start spying on his friends, his is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. The cast also includes Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane. --Shannon Nolley

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Posted by Shannon on January 12, 2006 10:05 PM
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