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When they announced the Len Wiseman-helmed reboot of Total Recall a while back, I wasn’t too excited. This may have something to do with Wiseman, who, aside from some good solid work on Die Hard 4.0, has spent most of his career directing his wife Kate Beckinsale in latex fetish fest Underworld and its disastrous [...]
Anyone out there who is feeling thoroughly fatigued by the number of remakes (or “reboots”) of popular, past cult favourites may be pleased to learn the Snake Plissken will not be making another rescue attempt to retrieve the president from a dystopian New York in the near future. Deadline are reporting that current property holders [...]
While some fims are produced under a Promethian cover of secrecy others bask in the sunlight and are in plain sight of passing film fans. Toronto is currently home to the Len Wiseman remake of the 90s Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s We Can Remember it for you Wholesale, renamed then and now [...]
Casting news is ramping up for the reworking of the Paul Verhoeven/Arnie exercise in restraint and subtlety that was Total Recall. As you’ll know if you’ve been following our posts to date on the Colin Farrell-starring new version, TR 2.0 will eschew the Martian plot of the original film (and Philip K. Dick’s source novel, “We [...]
Jessica Biel (The Illusionist) and Kate Beckinsale (Underworld) have officially signed on to play the female leads, Melina and Lori respectively, in Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall remake. Biel and Beckinsale will star opposite Colin Farrell (Phonebooth), Bryan Cranston (Little Miss Sunshine) and Ethan Hawke (Before Sunset). As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, [...]
Another name has been added to the cast list for the remake of famed Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi actioner, Total Recall, and the actor in question represents perhaps a slightly unusual (but very welcome) presence to the film. Former Generation X heartthrob and Richard Linklater regular Ethan Hawke is down for a small, cameo part which [...]
Kate Beckinsale has been offered the role of Lori in Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall remake. If she accepts, she will star opposite Colin Farrell (In Bruges) and Bryan Cranston (Drive) in the sci-fi adventure film. Total Recall involves nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai, with Douglas Quaid (Farrell) a factory worker in the latter who begins to [...]
There’s been a fair amount of casting news for the Len Wiseman directed Total Recall, a remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven film, with Bryan Cranston recently signing up as the villain of the piece opposite Colin Farrell. Today there’s another name to be added to the project – Jessica Biel who was recently seen [...]
You have to love Arnie’s 1990 Total Recall. Masses of excess, blood and deaths galore, three boobies before everyone in Paul said it was awesome and Michael Ironside losing his arms. Len Wiseman is bringing us a reworking of the film, this time deaing with competition between two very much Earth-bound nation states, Euromerica and [...]
The online film community has been aware for some time of the proposed Len Wiseman-directed remake of popular Schwarzenegger cerebral sci-fi actioner Total Recall. Now producer Neal Moritz has finally shed some light in the project, which is readying for a May shooting date in Toronto. Speaking to the Fast & Furious veteran, Collider has [...]
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 [...]
Variety are reporting that Colin Farrell has been offered the lead role in Columbia Pictures Total Recall remake. Farrell was previously tipped a few weeks back, along with fellow hot property actors Tom Hardy (Inception) and Michael Fassbender (Fish Tank). Total Recall is loosely based on Philip K. Dick’s novelette We Can Remember It for You Wholesale [...]
Yes, this is another ‘list of potential actors in line for a future project’ post – seemingly part of every forthcoming film’s early marketing sweep these days but it’s a slow news night and Tom Hardy is involved so it’s worth reading. The story so far. Over a year ago we heard that there was [...]
Len Wiseman, creator of the moderately successful Underworld series, is in advanced talks to direct a Total Recall remake. The film, originally released in 1990, is tentatively based on a short story by Philip K. Dick called We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Columbia Pictures’ presidents, Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, announced the remake in a [...]
MTV got to interview Bruce Willis on his new movie ‘Cop Out’ which, as well as Willis stars Tracy Morgan and Kevin Pollak. During the interview, they brought up the topic of a fifth Die Hard movie. Willis said: “I think we’re going to do a ‘Die Hard 5′ next year”. When asked if he’d [...]
