It's talkie time again with two film players chatting about their big films of next year.
First up acclaimed director Richard Linklater was doing the rounds for "Before Sunset" and spoke to Coming Soon a little about his adaptation of Philip K. Dick's story "A Scanner Darkly" which he's currently working on:
"Its kind of a drug movie. Its set in the near future in the middle of a drug epidemic. Its going to be animated. I just shot the live action portion, but ultimately, its an animated film using a similar rotoscoping process that I used in Waking Life. Its the same software, but its been updated. [Animator] Bob Sabiston continues to work on it, so the animation is at an interesting place. It will have a different look that I think will work with the story well. Ive been wanting to do another animated film, so Im glad I got the chance...
Its really darkly funny. Im kind of making a comedy, but its a weird comedy. Who knows how I pull it off, but I approached it like that. I hung out with his daughters a lot, and they liked my approach to it. They liked that someone was actually doing the story, not just plucking an idea and running with it. This is the story. This is that book. It feels pretty good. Keanu is great as Bob Barker, the lead character. Hes an interesting guy. His thinking is such that I thought he would be perfect".
For more from Linklater on the project, click here.
Meanwhile Sci-Fi Wire was chatting with Willem Dafoe for "The Clearing" when his role in the upcoming "xXx" sequel came up. The actor it seems has a desire to do most of his own stunts these days - "I'll be doing some action stuff. Kicking and punching. I think I know how to do that. I like doing [stunts], unless it's a skill that I can't learn quickly, like car stuff. I've got no pride in that. That doesn't matter. But when I see a stunt guy do anything that I should do, it's like someone doing the scene for you, because the physical stuff so roots everything else that it freaks me out. If I see, for instance, in post [production] that they didn't bring me back [for a simple shot], so they hire a some guy dressed in my costume walking away, I'll say, 'That is not my walk. That is not my ass.' It's all part of it. So I think it's important to do that".
For more on that, click here.
Thanks to 'Antoine'
