Scanner Delayed Again

Warner Independent Pictures has bumped the release date of its much-
delayed SF film A Scanner Darkly yet again, to July from its most
recent release date in March, a spokeswoman told SCI FI Wire's
sister publication Science Fiction Weekly. No reason was given for
the move.

A Scanner Darkly, based on the novel by Philip K. Dick, was
scheduled to come out last September, then was moved to March 31 of
this year. In the film, director Richard Linklater overlays live-
action photography with advanced animation, as in his 2001 movie
Waking Life. Delays in the sophisticated animation process were
cited when the movie was pushed to March from September last year.

Set in suburban Orange County, Calif., in a future where America has
lost the war on drugs, A Scanner Darkly stars Keanu Reeves as an
undercover cop who 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, Warner said. The cast also
includes Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson, Winona Ryder and Rory
Cochrane.