Total Recall… Again!
Its back! 
And according to Columbia Pictures, this remake is going to be a “contemporized adaptation”.
For those that can still remember, the original movie starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and is about a man who persistently experienced dream flashes of going to Mars. The story plot unveils as Arnold’s character buys a literal dream vacation from an aptly named company — Rekall Inc., (hence the movie title) which sells implanted memories.
Kurt Wimmer, (responsible for Equilibrium and Ultraviolet) has been tagged to write the remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 movie. At the moment though, there is no confirmation yet whether Wimmer has also been asked to direct the movie as well. For this project, he would be working on his own adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s literary work We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. This is the original novelette where the story for the original movie was based.
Wimmer seems to have a pattern in churning out work that develops specific cult following rather than becoming box office blockbusters. Hopefully this remake turns out well.
CREDIT: The image with Arnold’s twisted faces in the post above was created by Jeff Ramirez for the Crazy4Cult art show.
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Tags: equilibrium, kurt wimmer, Paul Verhoeven, Philip Dick, remake, ultraviolet
June 3rd, 2009 at 10:06 PM
theyre making a remake of everything na. diba yung footloose meron na rin?
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Troy Reply:
June 4th, 2009 at 2:31 AM
Honestly, I think Hollywood is really running out of viable and fresh ideas to create into a movie.
It’s that, or they just continually want to prove that they can do a better job than their predecessors on doing the same thing. tsk tsk
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