Philip K Dick died in 1982, but his work is all the more relevant with the recent release of A Scanner Darkly, the big screen adaptation of arguably one of his finest novels.
The Philip K Dick site is endorsed and fully supported by the author’s family and offers a truly fascinating insight into the life and work of this prolific and widely respected literary figure.
Many of Dick's novels have made it to the big screen. Ask any sci fi fan to name their all time favourite movies and BladeRunner - based on the author's short story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - is sure to be up there.
Fewer people know that Dick wrote Minority Report, on which Steven Spielberg's critcally acclaimed 2002 movie was based. The less said about Ben Aflleck prancing around in John Woo's Paycheck though, the better.
A Scanner Darkly is a well regarded break from the normal Hollywood sci fi output, in that it employs rotoscoping – a technique invented early in the 20th Century which involves tracing over each frame of film and then hand painting each scene.
It looks slightly primitive by today’s CGI standards, but we approve. And we’re pretty sure that Dick would too.
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Sat 7 Oct 2006 at 8:53pm
