A Scanner Darkly - Trailer
A Scanner Darkly
Opens in the UK on 18th August 2006
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LOCATION: Suburban Orange County, California.
TIME: The near future.
America's endless and futile war on drugs has become one and the same with its war on terror. Reluctant undercover cop Bob Arctor (Keanu Reeves) follows orders to start spying on his friends, Jim Barris (Robert Downey Jr.), Ernie Luckman (Woody Harrelson), Donna Hawthorne (Winona Ryder) and Charles Freck (Rory Cochrane). When he is directed to step up the surveillance on himself, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode.
Based on legendary science-fiction author Philip K. Dick's own experiences, "A Scanner Darkly" tells the darkly comedic, caustic, but deeply tragic tale of drug use in the modern world. The film plays like a graphic novel come to life with live-action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process—a method known as interpolated rotoscoping, first employed in writer/director Richard Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life" — to create a haunting version of America, seven years from now.
Warner Independent Pictures presents in association with Thousand Words, a Section Eight / Detour Filmproduction / 3 Arts Entertainment Production: "A Scanner Darkly." The film stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory Cochrane. The picture is written for the screen and directed by Richard Linklater from the classic novel by Philip K. Dick.
"A Scanner Darkly" is produced by Anne Walker-McBay, Tommy Pallotta, Palmer West, Jonah Smith and Erwin Stoff. George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh, Jennifer Fox, Ben Cosgrove and John Sloss are executive producers. The creative team includes director of photography Shane F. Kelly, editor Sandra Adair and production designer Bruce Curtis.
BASED ON THE ACCLAIMED NOVEL BY PHILIP K. DICK
WRITTEN FOR THE SCREEN AND DIRECTED BY RICHARD LINKLATER
KEANU REEVES
ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
WOODY HARRELSON
WINONA RYDER
RORY COCHRANE
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