a scanner darkly

[morwen]

just found this trailer for A Scanner Darkly (a philip k dick adaption). been following the progress of this one for a while. shooting finished a couple of years ago, and you can see what they've been busy doing sensesince. very pretty rotoscoping indeed. really does look like sophisticated hyper-realistic graphic novel art come alive. which is a bit odd.

PKD adaptions are variable things: compare the big three of Blade Runner (classic), Total Recall (fun but ultimately brainless romp) and Minority Report (which i liked, but dust hasn't settled on yet), so we shall see if it is any good. it seems it will be pretty faithful, at least. released August 18th in the UK!

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[foibey.livejournal.com]

In all fairness "We can remember it for you wholesale" wasn't all that much cop before the adaptation. Never read Minority report so can't compare it really. Really enjoyed Blade Runner, and miss owning it.

I couldn't get any audio on that trailer (probably my mplayer plugin pissing around), but it looks fascinating. The cartoonesque rerendering of the footage has a cool sense of being just on the edge of hallucination (especially with the lines of people's features wobbling slightly almost constantly). The rendering of the multi-image suits (can't remember their proper names from the book) is pretty cool too. I'm rather impressed. Wish I still had my copy of the book somewhere to reread.