No! No! No! No! (sounds of crying) Keanu Reeves is the lead in a PKD film

I like Keanu, but he's already set to screw up another of my life long faves (the comic Hellblazer...which is supposed to be a about a Brit Occultist...so what do they do? Cast Keanu, set it in LA, and give him a cop partner.)

Now he's going to star in a PKD adapation: A Scanner Darkly. I'll give it a chance because Linklater is involved, but I'm very unhappy about this casting choice.

Reeves Stars In Scanner

Keanu Reeves will star in A Scanner Darkly, based on a Philip K. Dick novel, for Warner Independent Pictures, Variety reported. Richard Linklater (School of Rock) is in talks to direct, the trade paper reported. George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh's Section 8 will produce.

A Scanner Darkly will employ the same technology Linklater used in Waking Life: It will be shot live-action, then animated, the trade paper reported.

The story takes place in the future, where undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. Reeves plays one such officer, and his liberal ingestion of the drug Substance D causes him to develop a split personality, the trade paper reported.


http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-03/30/10.30.film

but he wasn't bad in Matrix...

I like the guy, but all of PKD's main characters were always "Average-Joe" type guys. Yet all we get are "stars" for the roles. Personally, I'd be happier if they cast slightly overweight character actors as the stars of PKD movies. It would be closer to the feel of a PKD story.

what DID he do in the Matrix?

I heard that the two sequels sucked. Giving him a bigger part probably didn't help...

Slight not the name of a great!

:evilgrin:

Wait, that didn't sound right.

How about: "I greatly respect the author Philip K. Dick."

Regardless, a "PKD movie" sounds like something I would've been made to watch in health class.

Keanu may not be too bad in it after all, since he's got the whole Valleyboy thing still going on from Bill & Ted, and it might come through nicely when he's supposed to be playing the undercover side of the cop.
So WHEN are they going to do UBIK?!?! Crissakes!
Or MAn in the High Castle, or Palmer Eldritch, or Maze of Death...
Dammit.
Actually, the one I'd really like to see right now is Radio Free Albemuth, since the President Fremont character is so much like Bush...

I would love to see a movie of that. Albemuth would be interesting too.

But no Keanu.

I'm hoping that if the Valis trilogy ever gets done (doubtful, so much internal dialogue among other factors) that someone with the ability to do what Scorcese did with Kundun and The Last Temptation Of Christ directs.

Yeah, Ferris F. Freemont never dies and he exists in all possible dimensions. Too bad for us he's currently inhabiting the Whitehouse.

I often reference PKD in my posts on another forum. Lol, I compared Ann Coulter to the schizoidal female character from We Can Build You ..... and I backed it up with some dialogue :).

Btw, for the character of Horselover Fat (PKD) I see William Hurt in the role.

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you have hit on exactly my problem with Keanu in EVERY moive he has done since Bill and Ted. You just can't look at him without waiting for every line he utters to end with "Dude".

Watching him in "Much Ado About Nothing" or "Dangerous Liaisons" can be a painful experience.

But help my forgetful mind. The setting of the film was, I think, Louisiana, and his nemisis was a red head (Patricia Clarkson?) who was making a meager living telling fortunes in the backwater place, and was her husband dead? Or was it that she had encouraged her sister, by her work, to leave Mr. Reeves' character?

I need the name of that film, Oh Smart Ones, because I want to watch it again. My point is that, he was the essence of a brutish, scared, domineering, desperate, murderous person. And so good at it; I think he might have a little more under his skin than we might have seen.

Kim

"My Private Idaho" comes to mind.

But for this role he's wildly mis-cast.