After
being tumbled around quite a bit, Richard Linklater's much anticipated pseudo-animated
offering A Scanner Darkly has been fixed for a July 7th release, as announced
recently by Warner Independent Pictures.
Based
on a Philip K. Dick novel, the movie follows Keanu Reeves as a dealer for a space-age
drug who's being harassed by a cop. The plot thickens when the cop turns out to
be the product of the drug's split-personality effect.
Fans
of director Linklater await the film eagerly for it's daring use of animation
directly over live-action footage, a process he perfected with 2001's Waking Life.
Fans of Sci-Fi great Dick will simply be happy to finally see the story brought
to life, after passing through the hands of Terry Gilliam and Charlie Kauffman
