Daniel Robert Epstein: Richard Linklater director of A Scanner Darkly

Linklater is great, Slacker is like background music for the tv and School of Rock is a stroke of genius

Limited debut in theatres and the movie only grossed barely over $400k. What the shit is that? Philip K Dick is a phenominal sci-fi author and the rotoscoping tech although almost a 100yrs old was done cell by cell for this flick. I have the anger! Why wasn't this given a bigger release base?!
-=Jeff=-

its actually computer rotoscop[ing so its a bit different.

my thoughts exactly. im sure linklater , in terms of profilt, thought he could make up for it in School of Rock 2 or something. But still, i saw it cuz im in austin. What about my fiends in El Paso or ElmerDinkleyVille ? this is a kickass movie, and im a picky sumbitch.

I hope to see it especially that i love Robert Downey jr

Saw it this weekend. Loved it. Now, for someone to (properly, faithfully) make Dick's "Valis"; THAT would be amazing.

Because Philip K Dick isn't a massively popular author, the subject matter is thick, and Linklater isn't really a "big-time" director? There's no point in striking more prints of a movie that you can't guarantee will pull in the production cost on its own when your opposition on the day is Pirates of The Caribbean 2.

As it is, the money it pulled in was enough for Warner Bros. to go "let's put it in more theaters". It's going to expand a little bit more over the next couple of weeks.

I'm going to see the movie today, and it's a bitch I have to travel an hour and a half to see this movie. Fucking Pirates of the Caribbean!

saw it last week and enjoyed it quite a bit. thought it did justice to PKD's style in a manner that none of the other adaptations have. definitely recommended.

I saw A Scanner Darkly last week and I liked it. I felt dissapointed in one of the last scenes because of it being a lil too "state the facts for the people that didn't figure it out", but other than that quite good.

I saw Superman returns over the weekend and I wanted to kil lthe family next to me with the boy who loudly would ask every 5 mins "what's going on?" I almost told the mother I got this one.

I'll give you two out of three there... there have been some huge films based on PKD books. (And some clunkers.)

That's for sure. Did people really expect POTC to do so well, though? I didn't.

Here's hoping. I think Linklater is right on in the bit in the interview where he says people think of animation/rotoscoping now in the same way that PKD's books were thought of back in the day. Pixar-style animation is realistic enough that it's an easy jump to make from traditional film, but there is all kinds of potential for trippier things like this.

Also, I talk too much.

Saw it yeaterday and loved it. Waking life is another great Linklater movie.

I also saw Superman and Pirates of The Caribbean 2 and scanner was far better than both.

Great interview, here. Completely relaxed. I'm even more stoked for this damn movie . . . once it is in a theatre near me.

I can hardly wait to see this film, being both a great fan of Phillip K. Dick and the rotoscoping used in A Waking Life. This should be a benchmark for animation, considering the current market. I recently saw Nacho Libre, which was worked on by the Hess brothers and Mike White, who is by far the most underrated writer in film today, and while I know Nacho Libre was sort of a kids' movie, all thirty-seven previews that were shown between Coca-Cola commercials before the film started were for CGI movie with talking animals, or some shit. There has to be a breakthrough soon in commercial film animation, I don't see why rotoscoping can't turn the tide.