Remake Report: Wimmer to Write New ‘Total Recall’

Posted by Dr. Cole Abaius (cole.abaius@filmschoolrejects.com) on June 3, 2009

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I’ll go ahead and skip all the puns about fans being able to totally recall the Arnold Schwarzenegger flick from 1990, since this site is nothing if not dry and completely serious.

The screenwriter behind Salt – the Angelina Jolie picture that we reported on a while back – will be taking a crack at re-upping Total Recall for Columbia Pictures. Kurt Wimmer also has the film Law Abiding Citizen in production currently, but he’s probably best known for writing Equilibrium.

Variety is reporting that the studio wants to modernize the story, the film version of which is almost two decades old. How’s that for a wake-up call? 1990 was almost two decades ago.

This could actually be a good thing. I definitely wouldn’t scoff at a re-imagining of any Phillip K. Dick story, and “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” seems like as good a candidate as any. Someone should mention to Columbia that “The Man in the High Castle” is also still ripe for the picking. And while we’re at it, someone should remind Paul Giamatti to finally make his long-gestating biopic about the sci-fi legend, The Owl in Daylight.

No word yet on whether there will be any three-breasted women involved.

What do you think?


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  • Sam
    i though half of this move was great!
  • It does need a remake. With all of our CGI improved and good rendering we can make everything possible and stretch other ideas than whatever was not achieved on the first movie. But would love to see the breasted woman.
  • Kevin
    Does NOT need a remake!

    Adding new CGI to a movie doesn't help it artistically or financially, and just looking at this summer's sequel and spinoff filled line up is proof enough.

    This is a polarized movie that has its share of people who absolutely hate it, and people who are die hard fans (yours truly)

    I'd rather have a Where's Waldo trilogy rather than ruin another movie I love
  • Congratulations, because Hollywood says you can have both!
  • k(Black)
    Who'll play Sharon Stone's character!
  • nicky_cavella
    equilibrium was freaking fantastic i think he can pull this one off as well. hed probably add some gunkata while hes at it
  • Always nice to see some love for Equilibrium. I was blown away by that movie - fun to think it came out the same year as The Matrix. Although I am pretty sure that The Matrix overshadowed it, kept it from being as popular as it could have been.
  • Eriqqartman
    They best stay away from Total Recall. Paul Verhoven is not a great story teller, but I'm pretty sure a remake will come out lame.
    Anyone who did Equilibrium has no business touching that classic.
    Try a bit of hard work and write a new story.
    I'd have thought the mess thats Terminator Salvation would make Hollywood think twice about remakes.
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