Total Recall is Happening Again
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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That’s right you science fiction fans, Total Recall is going to return. What I’m reading into this is that the movie will be an update and not a sequel. Interesting idea anyway.
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.
Original Source: ‘Total Recall’ ready for revival
I rememeber the first movie quite well and I liked it then, so I think an update would be very cool.
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Kevin says:
March 1st, 2009 at 12:25 am
Dick was an amazing writer. It’s too bad he was completely insane. Good with stories, though. Can you name all the stories that have been made into movies? Let’s see… there was Total Recal, Blade Runner, Next, Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Impostor, Screamers. OK, I cheated.