By You may remember us reporting on rumors of Colin “Miami Vice†Farrell starring in a remake of the Paul Verhoven classic Total Recall. Well, thanks to an interview on Collider with producer Neal Moritz, the rumors have been confirmed; Len Wiseman is indeed directing a Kurt Wimmer-penned Total Recall remake starring Colin Farrell, and it starts shooting in May.
Moritz offered some details on the project as well, and they offer a decidedly mixed bag of reactions. First and foremost, the film will not be shot in 3D. However, it’s a big budget picture, so a crappy post-conversion is sure to be in the future. The film also will be set in a quasi-dystopian universe, with, according to Moritz, “…cities [that] have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up.†The biggest surprise, however, is that the film will not step foot on the red sands of Mars, opting instead for an entirely Earth-based film. As indicated by this, the film will be a closer adaptation to the original Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.â€
I’m hesitant about this. On the one hand, I’m intrigued…
You may remember us reporting on rumors of Colin “Miami Vice” Farrell starring in a remake of the Paul Verhoven classic Total Recall. Well, thanks to an interview on Collider with producer Neal Moritz, the rumors have been confirmed; Len Wiseman is indeed directing a Kurt Wimmer-penned Total Recall remake starring Colin Farrell, and it starts shooting in May.
Moritz offered some details on the project as well, and they offer a decidedly mixed bag of reactions. First and foremost, the film will not be shot in 3D. However, it’s a big budget picture, so a crappy post-conversion is sure to be in the future. The film also will be set in a quasi-dystopian universe, with, according to Moritz, “…cities [that] have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up.” The biggest surprise, however, is that the film will not step foot on the red sands of Mars, opting instead for an entirely Earth-based film. As indicated by this, the film will be a closer adaptation to the original Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.”
I’m hesitant about this. On the one hand, I’m intrigued to see a more faithful adaptation of the short story, and judging from the scope the film seems to be setting, it could be a pretty big-action kind of picture. On the other hand, Len Wiseman. If Colin Farrell gets to dress up as a super fat woman for some reason, I suppose I’ll be content.
[Via Collider]