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I can't live in secrecy anymore. I think I've dodged the bullet long enough here. I know what everybody wants me to admit, so I'll just go ahead and answer the question on everyone's minds: What movie are you the most excited about coming out this year?
Yes, that is a bit of a heavy question, and most pop culture junkies like myself are wise to avoid the topic altogether and just wait for the movies to actually come out before allowing themselves to be swayed by any sort of hype. Obviously, the big player this summer is expected to be Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, and there is a tremendous expectations behind X-Men: The Last Stand. Ron Howard's The DaVinci Code is a sure thing, and Thank You For Smoking looks pretty fantastic. And then there are smaller more niche works like Nacho Libre, Art School Confidential, and The Fountain, but none of these are the film that truly has me amped (though I do intend on seeing all of these eventually. I am actually least interested in Superman and DaVinci). No, no, only one film scheduled for release later this year has truly raised my expectations to the point where I am almost certain I will not be satisfied simply because I will crave more of it in my veins, and that film is A Scanner Darkly.

Based on the classic sci-fi novel by Philip K. Dick (whose stories also inspired the films Minority Report and Blade Runner, among others), directed by Richard Linklater (Waking Life, Before Sunset, Dazed and Confused) and starring Keanu Reeves, Wynona Ryder, Woody Harrelson and Robert Downey Jr, the film is animated using a noticably more advanced and evolved version of the rotoscoping used to animate Linklater's Waking Life (which all links back to A-Ha's music video for "Take On Me") to amplify the drug-crazed near future distopian paranoia and present the story as "a sort of animated graphic novel". Just watch that trailer and tell me this film isn't glorious to watch already.
And as if that wasn't appealing and commercial-artsy enough, Entertainment Weekly has just confirmed the long-standing rumor that Radiohead (!) will be providing the film's score.
As avid an X-Men fan as I am, and as much as Dan Clowes' Art School Confidential tickles me, nothing, absolutely nothing, can top a Radiohead score for Richard Linklater directing a rotoscoped Philip K. Dick movie.