Feb 26 2009'Total Recall' ...Again!
As a second item in film remakes that have the slim potential to be better than their predecessors if they adhere more closely to the source material news, Total Recall is getting remade (totally!):
"Total Recall" is totally coming back.Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of "Total Recall," the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.
The original, based on the Philip K. Dick story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale," follows a man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars who buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
The movie explores one of Dick's favorite topics, reality vs. delusion, as audiences never knew whether or not the story was a dream. Either way, the movie grossed a very real $261 million worldwide.
I wish I had more of an opinion on this, but I haven't seen the film since a friend got his parents to rent it when we were ten, meaning most of my memories are of rewinding to see the three-boob scene again. Should I be more worried?
Reader Comments
1. JFreezy - February 26, 2009 3:01 PM
LAST!!!
2. andrey - February 26, 2009 3:02 PM
Why?? It's a great gory movie, why remake it?? What can they possibly improve??? I feel like the production companies are going over my personal list of favorite movies and finding ways to mess them up....there better be a 3 titted mutant there.
3. Brayden - February 26, 2009 3:13 PM
finally.
4. michael illick - February 26, 2009 3:14 PM
Original Films?
5. JFreezy - February 26, 2009 3:15 PM
I agree with post # 2, except they better be REAL boobs! All three, some how.................
6. kinnamje - February 26, 2009 4:05 PM
For the 3 boobs, this sucker's gonna be PG-13 to pull in the "tweens".
Zack Efron as Arnold's character and Amanda Byrnes as the chick. That's a winner....
7. bruno - February 26, 2009 4:49 PM
If they start remaking movies i've seen when i was young... i'm really getting old... and i'm only 31... djeezz
8. orb205 - February 26, 2009 5:09 PM
This is the perfect set up for showing "Boob' right before the feature presentation and as a special edition DVD extra!
9. LokiMan - February 26, 2009 5:33 PM
"If I am not me, den who da hell am I?!?!?!?!"
Great movie. Should not be remade. Then again, there is some real memory bending technology emerging that makes this movie relevant.
10. Jannah - February 26, 2009 6:25 PM
But, but, I already know how it ends!
I dunno, the first one was fun. Maybe redo it for direct-to-vid. Or have George Lucas re-fit the original.
11. Newk Yuler - February 26, 2009 9:25 PM
Total Recall was the last movie Sharon Stone did that she still looked really, really hot. She was in her early 30s then.
12. Eddy - February 27, 2009 12:05 AM
I hated the movie. This is mostly because I read the short story and the two have nothing to do with each other. I mean, really nothing. It departs wildly from it and isn't even slightly true in spirit- the short story isn't actually action packed or anything. I'm not always really pedantic about this stuff- Blade Runner is a perfect adaptation because it stays true to the spirit of the book even if it changes details- but the Total Recall movie just had... oh god.
The story had a lot of charm, I think. There are probably ways to interject action that don't require ruining the intellectual value of the work.
13. peter - February 27, 2009 4:39 AM
Get your ass to mars!
Get your ass to mars!
Get your ass to mars!
Get your ass to mars!
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Get your ass to mars!
Get your ass to mars!
Get your ass to mars!
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14. CaptainMorgan - February 27, 2009 1:11 PM
If they do this right, it could be huge. I watched it last night with my wife on TV and really enjoyed the movie for all it's campy charm. The midget hooker still scares the crap out of me! HOW is it possible?????
15. Pat - March 1, 2009 12:24 PM
Total Recall rocks, iwatchstuff guy. It's enjoyable as a hilarious, campy Schwarzenegger movie AND as a relatively complex action movie. Paul Verhoeven directed it, the man who brought us the camp-brilliance of Robocop.
16. Delgo - March 2, 2009 1:21 PM
I'd buy that for a dollar.
17. Right Fury - March 2, 2009 4:34 PM
"consida dat a divorce"
"was that your wife?" "what a bitch."
Verhoven was also the book butcher of starship troopers. He should be shot for that one. Why don't they remake that instead.
I would hope this remake would be closer to the book but thats a wetdream. More people saw the movie rather than read the book so expectations for the movie would be lots of gunfire and disappointment would ensue.
Knowing 2000's hollywood vs 80's/90's hollywood, all the conservative directors/writers have been blacklisted so at the end they'll save the fucking environment or find out guns are bad mmmkay?