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Total Recall remake. Colin Farrell Is Frontrunner

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Total Recall is narrowing in on finding the star that will step into the shoes first worn by Arnold Schwarzennegar in the 1990 movie.

Colin Farrell is at the top of the list, which also includes Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender.

No offers have been made for anyone to star in the movie, which is looking at a late March start with Len Wiseman behind the camera and Neal Moritz and his Original Film banner producing.

The studio is contemporizing its adaptation of the original 1990 movie, which was based on a Philip K. Dick story, "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale." It followed 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.
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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/heat-vision/exclusive-colin-farrell-frontrunner-total-31828

Interesting. I hope Arnold makes a cameo.
 
When they say they're "contemporizing" the adaptation, does that mean they're setting it in the present instead of the future?
 
Total Recall remake. Colin Farrell Is Frontrunner
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:guffaw: :guffaw: :guffaw:

No, seriously, who are they looking to play the part?

:guffaw: :guffaw: :guffaw:

Just don't tell me its Adrian Brody.
 
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I'd rather see Tom Hardy than Colin Farrell. In anything.

I'll be curious to see a different take on the material since it won't be an Arnold vehicle.
 
So they're reusing the story that Total Recall is based on but not called Total Recall and they're keeping the Total Recall name even though it'll be quite different than the Total Recall movie?
 
Maybe it's just me, but I envision every PKD hero as being a cross between Sam Rockwell and Paul Giametti, with maybe some Steve Buscemi thrown in. :rommie: Aren't they all schlumpy losers? Colin Ferrell is way too purdy and Ah-nold is way way way too buff.

The way to do a compromise between PKD and Hollywood is to take a good looking actor like Harrison Ford and frump him up something awful. Blade Runner was the right idea. Maybe they can frump up Ferrell, but I'd prefer to see that done with Matt Damon, a la The Informant!
 
Another film that was perfect the first time around. Why f_ck with it?
 
Aragorn said:
So they're reusing the story that Total Recall is based on but not called Total Recall and they're keeping the Total Recall name even though it'll be quite different than the Total Recall movie?
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Branding. That's the title people are familiar with. Besides, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" would be hard to fit on a movie poster.
 
I'm blaming this hair-brained scheme on the monkey again.

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Bad Monkey! Bad! Don't screw with the classics.:klingon:
 
BillJ said:
Another film that was perfect the first time around. Why f_ck with it?
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Indeed. I never read the story, but I thought Total Recall was a great Sci-Fi thriller with Arnold. Arnold made the movie. This movie needs no remake.

I'm not sure it can be as good with another actor, certainly not pretty boy, Colin Farrell.:rommie:
 
Don't think of it as a remake. Think of it as a different adaptation of the same story.

I don't really know much about the original story myself, so I can't comment on the merits of this idea.
 
Canadave said:
Nightstalker said:
Don't think of it as a remake. Think of it as a different adaptation of the same story.
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Quite. I can't be the only one here who'd enjoy seeing a more cerebral\thoughtful take on the story, can I? :shrug:
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Did you watch any science fiction movies made in the last couple of years? There's a 99% chance it will be full of overdone effects and dumbed down for the lowest common denominator.
 
Nightstalker said:
Don't think of it as a remake. Think of it as a different adaptation of the same story.
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Indeed. Total Recall is so profoundly changed from "We Can Remember it For You Wholesale" that it would be easy to craft a radically different film from the same source material. For instance, in the story, Quail is given implanted memories of being a secret agent on Mars, but he never actually goes to Mars; the whole story takes place on Earth. It would be easy enough, for example, to ditch the Mars elements altogether and tell an Earthbound thriller about a man unsure of his true identity or memories. Indeed, maybe that's what the article meant when it referred to "contemporizing" the remake, though I'm sure it could mean something else.
 
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