Easy burn

There is a site out there in the great history of webspace that has a collection of Charlie Kaufman scripts, and so it was that a while back I found myself reading his adaptation of Phillip K Dick's novel, A Scanner Darkly. As I read through the first fifty pages or so, I was laughing harder and harder, it was just incredibly funny even for a Kaufman script. Wanting to know how much of this was from source, I bought a copy of the original book and was changed. That book is one of the greatest books ever written by anyone at anytime ever. Not only is it gut-wrenchingly funny, it is tragically melancholy and painfully honest, there were moments I was in tears, actual tears pouring down my face. Jeez, it's only a book man, but that's the effect it had. Well anyway, although they dropped the Kaufman script, they continued in production of the film and it's coming out this year, written and directed by Richard Linklater. I even found you all a trailer, which has to be seen to be believed, surely this is one of the most beautiful looking films in existence, I almost lost my cornflakes over it this morning. Mmm, it sends shudders...