Topic: Total Recall (2012)

[Keg]

With Paycheck and Minorty Report I actually felt like Paycheck could quite easily belong in the same universe. It was like a precursor to Minority Report in a way, dealing with looking into the near future and then Minorty Report is a little further into the future where theyve refined it.

[Airidok]

Colin Farrell on the remake: http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Colin-Farrell-Says-Total-Recall-Remake-Won-t-Re-Adapt-Philip-K-Dick-24395.html

[Sharp Sticks]

So they really are remaking Total Recall? Or they're readapting the short story? He said...they...teh?

Oh, f**k this movie.

[Hellspawn28]

Any plans on what the movie might be rated since I remember reading that they want it PG-13?

[Sharp Sticks]

Cohaagen! Give these people R!

[Airidok]

I understand it's now a Kafka biopic, since he said it was Kafka, not Kafkaesque...

[Pn2501]

Bokeem Woodbine, who has appeared in movies such as The Rock, Ray, and Devil, has reportedly been offered the part of Douglas Quaid's friend. The speculation is that the part in question is based on Benny from the original movie, but that's assuming all the characters in this new movie have analogues in the original.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118036338?refCatId=13

[ace3g]

Ethan Hawke to Cameo in TOTAL RECALL Remake

Ethan Hawke has joined Len Wiseman’s upcoming remake of Total Recall.  The film stars Colin Farrell as a factory worker who begins to believe he’s a spy for either the nation stat Euromerica or New Shanghai, but he doesn’t know which.  The movie is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” and was loosely adapted back in 1990 as an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.  The movie has ditched the concept of going to Mars because I guess as a country we’ve given up on that dream.

Heat Vision reports that Hawke’s role is being kept under wraps and that it’s a cameo in nature.  I’m not exactly sure why you’d cast Hawke in a cameo when he wasn’t in the original film, but I’m not going to argue against his participation.  The film also stars Bryan Cranston as villain Vilos Cohaagen, and Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are in talks to play the female leads Lori and Melina, respectively.  Total Recall opens August 3, 2012.

http://collider.com/total-recall-remake-ethan-hawke/89964/

[AvatarIII]

Ethan Hawke to Cameo in TOTAL RECALL Remake

Ethan Hawke has joined Len Wiseman’s upcoming remake of Total Recall.  The film stars Colin Farrell as a factory worker who begins to believe he’s a spy for either the nation stat Euromerica or New Shanghai, but he doesn’t know which.  The movie is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” and was loosely adapted back in 1990 as an Arnold Schwarzenegger action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.  The movie has ditched the concept of going to Mars because I guess as a country we’ve given up on that dream.

Heat Vision reports that Hawke’s role is being kept under wraps and that it’s a cameo in nature.  I’m not exactly sure why you’d cast Hawke in a cameo when he wasn’t in the original film, but I’m not going to argue against his participation.  The film also stars Bryan Cranston as villain Vilos Cohaagen, and Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are in talks to play the female leads Lori and Melina, respectively.  Total Recall opens August 3, 2012.

http://collider.com/total-recall-remake-ethan-hawke/89964/

maybe hawke plays an astronaut, preparing to go to saturn, but also secretly pretending to be jude law?

[Pn2501]

Bill Nighy to open your mind.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bill-nighy-star-opposite-colin-192396

[Spidey3121]

Haven't kept up with this...

No Mars? Interesting.

This reminds me i wanted to watch Total Recall recently, maybe i'll get to it...

[SpaceMarines]

Bill Nighy to open your mind.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bill-nighy-star-opposite-colin-192396

[Hubbs]

No Mars? Colin Farrell as Quaid!!?

Seeing as Farrell is in the remake of the dreadful looking 'Fright Night' I'm not holding my breath on this, for this to win it would have to be in a 'Blade Runner' style....realistic, bleak and epic in stature, Hawke could bring that but the rest sounds poor. Bill Nighy!? really!? come on 

[Vulhala]

I want Liam Neeson as Quaid. 'Cos why not?

[Hubbs]

^ Sounds good..but then wouldn't it be alittle too similar to 'Unknown' and 'Taken' hehe