Wow, I am impressed. The animation technique they used is very original, and I think that it will be a good movie as well.. my initial worries have been exaggerrated, I think. Perhaps even Keanu will show some great acting, as well as other actors (the line up sounds pretty good). Looks like they have artistic value in mind as No. 1 priority.
Ahem. What do you want, a blockbuster style marketing?
Then people would have impression it's just another Matrix or something.
It's produced by Warner Independent Pictures. That says pretty much.
A Scanner Darkly Trailer Gets Amp'd
Source: Amp'd Mobile February 13, 2006
For the first time ever, mobile customers in the U.S. get the first look at a feature film trailer before it hits theaters or the web. Warner Independent Pictures will debut its trailer for A Scanner Darkly on Amp'd Mobile handsets beginning today.
Hey, for the first time, I'll be able to watch a PKD film AFTER reading the book the first! It's been the other way round for all other PKD-based films
I can't imagine how the book will translate to screen - it's a pretty weird concept in the first place. I wonder how many will see it without any knowledge of the original story and think "What the hell was that all about!"
Or they might just look at it on a purely visual level and think "Nice cartoon, but I've no idea what's going on" - that could affect it's overall rating in the same way that Blade Runner is under-rated.
I know what they need - a VOICE-OVER version! Anyone got the phone number for 'Irvine the Explainer"?
It isn't released until 18 Aug in the UK, so I may have to avoid spoiler posts for a couple of months. They really ought to do simultaneous world-wide releases as standard nowadays - I'm fed up of having to wait 2 months to see a film that everyone has already discussed on the internet.
Richard Gunn
We each live in our own realities - who's maintaining yours?
The only thing that you can be 100% sure of, is that you can't be 100% sure of anything.
Sadly, they aren't showing it in any theatres near me. The closest one is about an hour and a half away. They were showing it for a bit in denver, but my schedule wasn't clear enough to see it, and now it's gone Oh well, i was definitely planning on buying the DVD anyway. There seems to be a lot of bonus material (documentaries and such) that will/should be included.