A Scanner Darkly

Based On the book by Philip K. Dick

A Scanner Darkly is a 2006 American adult animated science fiction thriller film written and directed by Richard Linklater, based on the 1977 novel by Philip K. Dick. The film tells the story of identity and deception in a near-future dystopia constantly under intrusive high-tech police surveillance in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. The film was shot digitally and then animated using interpolated rotoscope, an animation technique in which animators trace over the original footage frame by frame, for use in live-action and animated films, giving the finished result a distinctive animated look. Principal photography began on May 17, 2004, and lasted six weeks.

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Release date:

May 25, 2006

Director:

Richard Linklater

Cast:

Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder, Rory Cochrane

Genre:

Science Fiction, Drama, Dystopian, Arthouse science fiction

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

2006 in adaptations