While speaking to Collider recently during a press day for The Green Hornet at the Sony Pictures lot, producer Neal Moritz shared a significant confirmation on another of his projects: Total Recall.
Though called a remake of sorts with the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie of the same name being so popular, this new movie is more of a second adaptation of Philip K. Dick‘s short novel, We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. But who would play the lead role Arnie once played?
Well, according to Moritz, the actor they’ve secured is Colin Farrell. This fits with a subtle-yet-interesting trend of casting much smaller gentlemen in roles Schwarzenegger once played. It also makes plenty of sense — no point in getting your actor compared to the former bodybuilder when you can go in an entirely different direction.
Moritz went on to answer many more questions about the movie, which will begin filming on May 15 in Toronto. You read the whole interview by heading over to the above link, but we’ll try and note some of the more intriguing goodies.
Most importantly, the producer shared that they would not be filming Total Recall in 3D. Despite your feelings about another version of this story being made, that has to be a big positive. The movie is also not even going to SPACE, which was a pretty gigantic part of the original movie. Instead, the story will be set right here on Earth, and instead of a space ship taking characters to other planets, there’s something that will take them from one side of this planet to the other. Descriptions are vague, for sure, but Moritz promises a “great twist” to their new film.
The movie is set to be directed by Len Wiseman (Underworld, Live Free or Die Hard), whose work so far has impressed the producer. Of Wiseman’s vision of this new Total Recall, Moritz says:
I think the world that Len Wiseman is creating is incredible. It’s a real world, a real future world, where the cities have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up. It’s just everything I see on the movie, every pre-vis I see on the movie, every conceptual drawing on this movie that I see just makes me more and more excited.
We’re playing it like a real world, but there’s all these technological advancements to the real world, and it’s just really, it’s cool. It’s an awesome movie. I’m dying””as a fan of movies, more than anything, it’s a movie that I’m just dying to see.
Expect this one to be huge, as well. When compared in scope to two of Moritz’s other projects — The Green Hornet and Battle: Los Angeles — he says that Total Recall is bigger. This might be a reason that 3D was passed on; sometimes dealing with that part of filmmaking is too annoying to bother with, and that can be good news for us!
FFS, get some new ideas and stop re-anythinging films I like.
Comment by unwesen — January 11, 2011 @ 7:15 pm
I won’t be going to see this excrement. I freakin’ hate Farrell.
No more re-makes or re-imagining!!!
Comment by Steve — January 12, 2011 @ 12:20 pm