Colin Farrell Talks About FRIGHT NIGHT And The TOTAL RECALL Remake

                                

Colin Farrell has been making his rounds promoting The Way Back and our pals at Collider caught up with him and asked him some questions about his role as Jerry Dandridge in Craig Gillespie's Fright Night redux, as well as the lead role offer he received for Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake.

Farrell was asked about being pressed for Total Recall with a little excitement in his tone saying:

I'd like to. I just don't know. I’m not sure. I haven’t been home for Christmas. I haven’t made the required calls. I don't know. I think, maybe. There's a good bit of action. It kind of sits on the fence in a really good way. It kind of sticks to one half or the other.  It's clever and it's well written. And there’s loads of action. I saw some of pre-visualizations already, that have been done for the world that they’re going to create and it's wicked, man. It's the first time in years where I went, 'Wow, I could be part of that? In that frame?' It's gone back to the original.

He was then asked about Fright Night:

I didn't want to like it when I read it. I really didn't. 'Cause I wanted to be able to go, 'What? They’re remaking FRIGHT NIGHT... Hollywood.' So I read it and I liked it. So fuck it, I'm going to go to work. And I’d seen LARS AND THE REAL GIRL and really liked that. The cast was incredible in it. So, entertainment.  If it's not that than it's not, but it's not in competition with the original. It doesn't negate the existence of the original. The original is still around. It might find a new audience. If it's not an hour and fifty minutes of entertainment then we screwed up.