A Scanner Darkly

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=45 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="005085a3.jpg"> <div> <B>A Scanner Darkly</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=435 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="736" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP COLSPAN=2 HEIGHT= 828 WIDTH="461"><div> <B> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script>  </B></div> <div> <B>A SCANNER DARKLY PRODUCTION NOTES</B></div> <div> <B>Tagline: Everything is not going to be OK</B></div> <bR> <div> "A Scanner Darkly" is set in suburban Orange County, California in a future where America has lost the war on drugs. When one reluctant undercover cop is ordered to start spying on his friends, he is launched on a paranoid journey into the absurd, where identities and loyalties are impossible to decode. It is a cautionary tale of drug use based on the novel by Philip K. Dick and his own experiences.</div> <div> Like a graphic novel come to life, "A Scanner Darkly" will use live action photography overlaid with an advanced animation process (interpolated rotoscoping) to create a haunting, highly stylized vision of the future. The technology, first employed in Richard Linklater's 2001 film "Waking Life," has evolved to produce even more emotional impact and detail.</div> <div> LOCATION: Suburban Orange County, California.</div> <div> TIME: The near future.</div> <div> 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.</div> <div> <A HREF="austin_city_limits.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Scanner Darkly / Austin City Limits"><B>Austin City Limits</B></A></div> <div> Linklater fine tuned the script during two weeks of rehearsals with the cast in Austin, Texas before principal photography began. “Richard really informed the final script with what we did during rehearsals,” says Reeves. “The characters were allowed to develop, and eventually became a fusion of the character in the novel, Richard’s adaptation, and what we as actors brought to it. It was great to work like that because you’re participating in it.”</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="259"><div> <IMG SRC="06b0e980.jpg" border=0 width="270" height="152" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Release Date:</B> July 7th, 2006</div> <div> <B>MPAA Rating:</B> R for drug and sexual content, language and a brief violent image.</div> <div> <B>Studio:</B> Warner Independent Pictures</div> <div> <B>Starring:</B> <A HREF="keanu_reeves.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Keanu Reeves Biography / A Scanner Darkl"><B>Keanu Reeves</B></A><B>, </B><A HREF="winona_ryder.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Winona Ryder Biography / A Scanner Darkl"><B>Winona Ryder</B></A><B>, </B><A HREF="robert_downey.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Robert Downey Jr. Biography / A Scanner "><B>Robert Downey Jr.</B></A><B>, </B><A HREF="woody_harrelson.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Woody Harrelson Biography / A Scanner Da"><B>Woody Harrelson</B></A><B>, </B><A HREF="rory_cochrane.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Rory Cochrane Biography / A Scanner Dark"><B>Rory Cochran</B></A></div> <div> <B>Directed and Screenplay b</B><B>y:</B><B> </B><A HREF="richard_linklater.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Richard Linklater Biography / A Scanner "><B>Richard Linklater</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="scanner_darkly_production.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Scanner Darkly / Production Informatio"><B>Production Information</B></A></div> <div> Philip K. Dick has slowly but steadily become a cultural icon with his works of mind-bending fiction. His first novel debuted in 1955, and ever since, his cumulative works have sold roughly 20 million copies and been translated to 25 different languages.</div> <div> <A HREF="scanner_darkly_animation.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Scanner Darkly / The Animation Process"><B>The Animation Process</B></A></div> <div> “A Scanner Darkly” was shot, locked and edited, just like a normal live-action film. After transferring to the animators via Quicktime, “We bring it into the world of animation,” says Tommy Pallotta, “and make the same movie twice.” The ‘second movie,’ which gives the hard reality of the first a trippy, pop art twist, was created by a 15-month long computer animation process designed to paint reality, not mimic it. The “painterly” process of interpolated- rotoscoping allows animators to paint over live action DV footage in ways similar to putting brush strokes on paper or canvas. The process frees animators from having to hand-draw each line in every frame. Instead, the computer connects fluid lines and brush strokes across a wide range of frames to create lifelike human movement.</div> <div> <A HREF="scanner_darkly_cast.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Scanner Darkly / Cast Crew"><B>Cast & Crew</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="scanner_darkly_end_credits.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="A Scanner Darkly / End Credits"><B>End Credits</B></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> This website is created and designed by MovieGrande International, 2006</div> <div> This is an unofficial website with educational purpose. All pictures are the property of their respective owners and may not be reproduced for any reason whatsoever. If proper notation of owned material is not given please notify us so we can make adjustments. 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