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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[elfbiter.livejournal.com]

Blade Runner was above-average movie in its own right even if it was not a faithful adaptation of the "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep". Others, however, were basically chase-and-action movies where Dick's original ideas were little else than MacGuffins. So I am not optimistic.