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A couple of Dicks have set pics from Linklater's A SCANNER DARKLY they want to share! Take a look!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with some goodies from the currently shooting Richard Linklater adaptation of Philip K. Dick's A SCANNER DARKLY. Looks like Dick's daughters visited the set here in Austin and posted about their experiences on their website, including pics with our first looks of Keanu, Robert Downey Jr., Winona Ryder and Woody Harrelson from the flick. I type this at 4:42am, less than an hour before call time for today's shooting on this very flick. How do I know that? Well, I am a sneaky seaman! Maybe the powers that be will decide to let me come by before they wrap and I can get some more dirt for you folks, but being that Warner Bros is making this flick, I ain't holdin' my breath for it! hehe Anyway, the below is really cool. Enjoy, squirts!!!
Hello,
I thought that you and your visitors would be interested in this
information about Rick Linklater's next film - A Scanner Darkly based
on Philip K. Dick's classic drug novel. Phil's daughters, Isa and
Laura visited the set in Austin, Texas and came back with this glowing
report which they posted on the Official PKD web site:See Linklater and Keanu and the cute as hell Winona Ryder here!!!
Warner Bros. is going to send out a press release, probably next week
but much of the information is available at the link above along with
photos. This is shaping up to be a very interesting project and will
probably be the most faithful adaptation of a PKD story.
Good luck and enjoy,
Jason
Webmaster, PhilipKDick.com
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I agree with the above. It's a sad indictment of the film industry that film finance dictates Keanu Reeves, a poor, POOR actor, should be cast in the lead role of one of the greatest sf novels ever. I wish Gilliam were directing with Ed Norton as Arctor, oh well.
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... Hey, I didn't mean that the way it sounds.
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A (very) poor man's FAST TIMES with almost no laughs. Anyway, I still wish Richard LaGravenese's script was being filmed
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She's a one in a million natural beauty. Well, Linklater rules and I think he will do a good job with this film.
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And why is it called A Scanner Darkly anyway when there isn't any scanner in it just Keanu with stubble?
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He might not be the BEST actor around but he is FAR from the worst.
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made you look
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=494&ncid=763&e=3&u=/ap/20040614/ap_en_tv/tv_buried_secret
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Jun 14, 2004 9:39:59 PM CDT
Keanu being stereotyped by the studios as the cyber-punk go to g
by iamlegolas
Johnny Mnemonic ... The Matrix ... A Scanner Darkly...
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...when it was called Naked Lunch.
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"Bloody wolves chasing me through some blue inferno!" Funniest line delivery in the history of cinema.
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You know what this tells me? That the casting wasn't about what was good for the story - it was about what's good for the bottom line. If it wasn't for success of THE MATRIX, Keanu wouldn't be anywhere near this goddamn thing. I like Keanu Reeves, but he is not a good enough actor to pull off a complicated role like Arctor/Fred. Fuck Keanu, fuck Winona Shoplifter, and fuck Richard Linklater and his pretentiously/unnecessarily animated adaptation of my favorite novel. (The animation isn't so groundbreaking when you do it TWICE.) It may have been taken out of his hands years ago, but this was Terry Gilliam's film. Gilliam has true vision. Gilliam was born to adapt Philip K. Dick. Just imagine a Gilliam adaptation starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro and any of the other REAL ACTORS he's collaborated with. Fuck this.
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From a casting point. They've picked 4 actors who are now lowlies in the Hollywood world. Keanu Reeves has been laughed out of the town following the reception to the Matrix sequels. Winona can't be given a top A-list blockbuster because she's been caught shoplifting and Middle America won't want to se her for a long time. Downey Jr. has the stigma of being a rampaging, drug-addicted loser and Woody Harrelson is loathed for his politics. But we know they can act if given the proper motivation! Even Keanu!! He scared the shit out of me when he showed up in 'The Gift' and actually had a Southern accent to go with his Southern character. Quite different from Dracula where he thought an english accent was to eliminate any emotion he might feel. If Linklater can make musically talented kids sparkl on the big screen next to Jack Black, 'm sure he has the powers to guide these 4 into his vision....now let's just hope his vision doesn't suck.
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This will be horrible.
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Were best portrayed on the screen in the film 'Half Baked'. "Abazaba... You're my only friend."
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I think this will actually be pretty good. I read the book a few months ago and enjoyed it - when I was looking at the pictures it was like parts of the book coming to life. I'm looking forward to this being released.
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Jun 15, 2004 9:06:20 AM CDT
Pic1) Geez the catering on the shoot is shit. Pic2) Amazing how
by theginger twit
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Jun 15, 2004 1:56:03 PM CDT
Shit... now I'm gonna have to come up with a new name for my ban
by christopher3
Something with a Z and a number.
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Jun 15, 2004 2:14:11 PM CDT
Clarequilty, that sounds a lot like a documentary about the Demo
by fluffyunbound
Are you psychic? How can you see it that clearly?
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It's like,no matter what story i look at on this site,it always boils down to napoleon dynamite....why does everything have to be about him?
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Damn can you please show some picks of say Woody Harrelson eating his lunch? That would be awesome...Oh it would be truly awesome if you had some pics of Downey standing against the wall!
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I think that Keanu has ruined any movie he's ever been in. He even ruined Shakespeare! I would prefer the emotional range of a board with a face painted on it in my movies over his turgid smirk.
Clare: You do realize that Clare Quilty was even more despicable a character than HH, don't you? -
that Richard Linklater doesn't make movies like other people make movies. What he does with film is unlike what most people are used to, so it's understandable that people would be upset at the thought of certain actors or actresses in this movie, but what you have to realize is that Linklater takes neither the pretentious film-school route, nor the big-budget-blow-everything-up route, so it's a bit tough to assume that just because of the cast, this movie will be bad. If there's one filmmaker i trust to deliver an excellent and totally unique movie, it's Richard Linklater (although i do think using the rotoscoping again detracts from what made Waking Life so special). It's kind of like your friend convincing you to try his anchovy/durian/limburger sandwich, which, despite your initial misgivings, is actually pretty good.
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It will bomb.
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as you can see in this TB, one of the RNC's favorite tactics right now is claiming that any and all opponents are insane. Anyone who doesn't like Bush is an irrational Bush-hater. Gore is insane, Dean is insane, plutocrat Soros is funding the anti-Bush drive, so suddenly he's insane. Neat trick, huh? Liberals used to be painted as evil, I don't know why the RNC switched to pitiable insanity. Any of you wingnuts know why your propaganda masters adopted a new charge against liberals?
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http://iifwp.org/media/media_crownofpeace.php our Congressmen, Democrats and Republicans, attending a ceremony for Reverend Moon where he was crowned King of Peace. This is Moon of the Moonies, a guy who thinks he is the Messiah - and he's got his fingers in the U.S. government. For more see http://www.gorenfeld.net
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JEEZUS. Have some faith in Linklater people, he's not really a "Hollywood" director. Keanu has had some good movies, albeit mostly where his role is kept minimal or de-emphasized: The Gift, River's Edge, I Love You to Death, Devil's Advocate .. yeah I can sense the WTF-are-you-talking-about response already. Anyway I don't think there's really any reason to NOT have hope that Linklater will produce a good interpretation of PKD's classic, other than wanting to spread your angst and bitterness across the internet senselessly.
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Jun 16, 2004 11:56:59 PM CDT
well, Moon is no less crazy than, say, Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hu
by beamish13
America embraces psychopaths that claim to be messiahs.
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Shit, we're not the ones that gave the world Saddam Husseim, the Contras, AND the Taliban (thanks Rap Master Ronnie Reagan).
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I think that you will agree that it is better to have HH around just a little bit longer. I'm talking about aurochs and angels, the secrets of durable pigment, prophetic sonnets, the last refuge of art.
Oh, and to get back on topic, Keanu never has and never will possess these secrets. Bad actor. Bad. Down boy. Play dead. -
I appreciate your statements, but I have zero faith in Linklater. I've seen all his films, and think he's a wildly overrated director. The moment I heard he'd signed on to do this film, I knew he was going to fuck it up in a major way, and casting a likable-but-horrible actor in the lead role tops even the decision to make the film with the unnecessary WAKING LIFE animation. A SCANNER DARKLY is my favorite novel. Ever. To me, this is like David Lean casting Jerry Lewis in the role of Zhivago, simply because Jerry Lewis was a big international star in the early 1960s. There are movies I have enjoyed Keanu Reeves in, but these were movies where he didn't really have to do any serious acting. Or, where he was meant to play an idiot. A SCANNER DARKLY is no such story. The central character is an extremely challenging one, and while he will try very, very hard, Keanu will not be able to give it the depth it requires. So far, Linklater's choices have given me zero hope for this thing, and as the die has been cast, this will not change. He's already blown it.
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Jun 17, 2004 11:24:12 PM CDT
"Waking Life" was the most pretentious, substance-free piece of
by rain_dog
It was nothing more than a seemingly endless procession of "characters" who functioned solely as mouth-pieces for the writer's undegraduate existential musings, and thus all sounded exactly the same. The bit when Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke are in bed together is absolutely excruciating in it's rush to impress the viewer with the number of big words it can chuck around. What made it even worse is that these sophomoric monologues are prompted by enquiries with all the subtlety of Jake Lloyd's "So I've been wondering, what are midichlorians?" bit from TPM. In short, fuck Hollywood for always shafting Phillip K. Dick adaptations. I see no good coming from this adaptation, what the cast and them using that fucking stupid animation overlay crap.
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