TOTAL RECALL Remake Movie Update
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- By drvenkman
In case you haven’t heard yet, yes, ‘Total Recall’ is getting the remake treatment. I bet you’re all extremely excited about this movie aren’t ya! We reported a few months ago that this movie was going to get made and now it has a screenwriter attached. A guy by the name of Kurt Wimmer will attempt to rewrite the sci-fi story. The give you an idea of what we can expect in trms of style from this guy here are a few movies that he wrote: ‘Sphere’, ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’, ‘Equilibrium’, ‘The Recruit’, ‘Ultraviolet’, and ‘Street Kings’. So you be the judge of how good the movie will turn out. It all depends on which of these movies you liked. I would have to say ‘Equilibrium’ was his best work.
The original movie is based on the Philip K. Dick story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” an it 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.
Columbia Pictures is doing the film and they are calling it a “contemporized adaptation”.
It is evident that Hollywood no longer has any original ideas and they will continue to re-make older movies. The question is do you think it is ok for them to re-make ‘Total Recall’?
Source: THR
I was going to say something really profound and to the point of anger and frustration but, you said it already. "Hollywood no longer has any original ideas", Or they're rather scared at taking a chance at new once for the sake of being careful its going to be a bust. Meh…this is getting tedious.
No, there is no need for a remake. Studios should find new talent and new stories. I am getting sick of remakes.
Wonder if Johnny Cab will make an appearance.
Maybe Benny's five starving kids will the main characters, and they will all have 4 boobs instead of 3.
I think Cohagen is behind it
Another YARM! (Yet Another Re-Make). There are plenty of excellent Phillip K. Dick stories out there if given to the right writer and director will be a blockbuster, why remake another 90's shite?!! Let's start a chant and say NO MORE YARM! NO MORE YARM! NO MORE YARM! NO MORE YARM!
The terrible truth of the matter is that as long as people pay to go see remakes, (even if they don't like them), the bean counters in charge of the studios will just keep making them.