Post by Ragingblues on Feb 26, 2009 8:17:06 GMT -5
A Total Recall Remake is Very Real
www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53284
Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia Pictures a contemporary version of Total Recall, the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven, says The Hollywood Reporter.
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.
Calling Dick's story "prescient," Moritz said he hoped the advancements in technology and state-of-the-art visual effects can help tell the "Recall" story in a fresh way.
I guess you can file this one under the category of "Yet Another Unecessary Remake". No production is perfect, but there's really nothing wrong with the original version, IMO. It's not even 20 years old!
All of these remakes of movies from the 80's and 90's should be a clear warning shot across the bow to Indy fans. Sometime in the not so distant future, they'll remake Raiders as well.
Ken
www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53284
Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia Pictures a contemporary version of Total Recall, the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven, says The Hollywood Reporter.
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.
Calling Dick's story "prescient," Moritz said he hoped the advancements in technology and state-of-the-art visual effects can help tell the "Recall" story in a fresh way.
I guess you can file this one under the category of "Yet Another Unecessary Remake". No production is perfect, but there's really nothing wrong with the original version, IMO. It's not even 20 years old!
All of these remakes of movies from the 80's and 90's should be a clear warning shot across the bow to Indy fans. Sometime in the not so distant future, they'll remake Raiders as well.
Ken
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