What is curious about Len Wiseman’s remake of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 Mars-based action movie Total Recall, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as its lead, is that is a remake of the Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 Mars-based action movie Total Recall and not a direct adaptation of the Philip K. Dick story We Can Remember it for You Wholesale on which Verhoeven’s movie was based.
Colin Farrell is said to be poised to jump into the future shoes of Arnold in this remake, due to shoot next year, and Kurt Wimmer is writing the script and news reaches us today that Toronto will be home to the production, which the report has valued at 0 million. Pinewood Toronto has the largest sound stage in North America and is the largest of its kind in Canada so securing the production is a huge coup for the facility. No word as of yet on how close it’ll stick to the 1990 film or if a third dimension will be involved in any way, but it’s a great story, perhaps ready for a twenty first century makeover.
Chance of a Schwarzenegger cameo? Slim. Sharon Stone? Maybe.
The Toronto Star braved the festive ice to deliver us this tale, and Coming Soon were in on the act too.
