'Total Recall' ready for revival

[GREEN =w= DAY]

wait a minute, no Mars?? how the hell are they going to overlook that when it played such a central point in the original film?!

 

[The Morningstar]

the original Total Recall didn't exactly have the most fleshed out or charismatic characters.

I thought Quaid was awesome. I felt for his plight. Richter, who can forget Ironside's Richter? That's a villain you love to hate.

And the story was just genuinely interesting.

 

[DorkyFresh]

wait a minute, no Mars?? how the hell are they going to overlook that when it played such a central point in the original film?!

i believe they're going to base this one more on the original short story. in it the main character had fabricated memories of Mars, but i don't think he actually TRAVELED to Mars.

i have to admit that i'm a bit disappointed that they won't be going to Mars, but i'm okay with it. the point of a remake is to bring something new to the table.

I thought Quaid was awesome. I felt for his plight. Richter, who can forget Ironside's Richter? That's a villain you love to hate.

to be fair, Arnold and Ironside did very well with their roles. Arnold is always entertaining (until the late 90's) and Ironside is just great.

 

[dark_b]

so he doesnt go to mars. but he is dreaming about mars?

 

[TruerToTheCore]

Who says Arnold went to Mars?

 

[The Morningstar]

haha yea, that's another thing that was great about the original. It was ambiguous. Was he really on Mars? Was he really a superspy? Did he really save the day? Or was all that part of the superspy package he bought from Recall?

This remake seems to be doing away with that.

 

[Hunter Rider]

You're almost always wrong anyhow. Still you though.

i believe they're going to base this one more on the original short story. in it the main character had fabricated memories of Mars, but i don't think he actually TRAVELED to Mars.

i have to admit that i'm a bit disappointed that they won't be going to Mars, but i'm okay with it. the point of a remake is to bring something new to the table.


to be fair, Arnold and Ironside did very well with their roles. Arnold is always entertaining (until the late 90's) and Ironside is just great.

Exactly, the Arnie movie was at times a dark comedy in it's depiction of certain things, and it thrived off the grotesque at points, with a superman lead.

What they seem to be going for here is more of a futuristic spy thriller, using a quality actor in the lead role to bring a more everyman Quaid.

 

[DorkyFresh]

so he doesnt go to mars. but he is dreaming about mars?

in this remake, i don't know...

Who says Arnold went to Mars?

haha, touche'!!!

haha yea, that's another thing that was great about the original. It was ambiguous. Was he really on Mars? Was he really a superspy? Did he really save the day? Or was all that part of the superspy package he bought from Recall?

This remake seems to be doing away with that.

yeah that's one thing i love about the original so i hope they keep that. even though he's not going to Mars they can still script it with an ambiguous ending.

 

[Bug-Eyed Earl]

i believe they're going to base this one more on the original short story. in it the main character had fabricated memories of Mars, but i don't think he actually TRAVELED to Mars.

And to be fair, the twist at the end was that there were memories beneath the ones Rekall uncovered, meaning the old life he thought he was remembering might have been fake as well.

 

[Spider-ManHero12]

Interesting to see John Cho in this. He seems to be geting bigger as a film star.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Set Pics

 

[Hunter Rider]

Set Pics

The article has been unpublished.

Anything interesting to see before they were removed?

 

[Hunter Rider]

Not sure if these are the same pics but the vehicle designs are cool, the guys kind of look like Storm Troopers.

http://www.crazycritics.com/pages/set-images-from-total-recall-remake

 

[TruerToTheCore]

oh, look, Stormtroopers.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

 

[Doctor Jones]

Hmm... interesting. I'll keep my eye out for this one.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Nice find! Where did it come from?

 

[Iron_Stark]

Greeeeeeeeaaaaaat, another uneeded remake. First Oldboy, now this. (Well this is the first I'm hearing of this, I didn't think they were already filming.)

No Mars? Wtf? Good thing I still have my Mars shaped dvd. Guess they won't be making a blu ray one for this.

If there's no three boobed hooker or no Johnny Cab, I'm not interested.

 

[protocida]

Quaid won't be dreaming about Mars. He lives in New Asia and implants memories of traveling to Euroamerica, which is when everything starts to go awry.

 

[Sgt.Pepper]

Nice find! Where did it come from?

Here's the source.

http://thefilmstage.com/2011/07/14/first-official-image-of-colin-farrell-in-total-recall/

 

[Hunter Rider]

Here's the source.

http://thefilmstage.com/2011/07/14/first-official-image-of-colin-farrell-in-total-recall/

Thanks, I see the pic is originally from the same ET issue as the new ASM pics. I also didn't realise the budget was $120M.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80044

 

[redhawk23]

Not a huge fan of the suits, but the police vehicles are awesome.

 

[S.A.A.D.]

The futuristic police cars look cool! I'm not happy about the absence of Mars in the movie. At this point, I'm going to see the remake of Total Recall after all.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://geeksofdoom.com/2011/07/23/sdcc-2011-total-recall-panel-footage-description/

http://www.iamrogue.com/news/comic-...vy-first-look-at-the-total-recall-remake.html

Couple of reports from the SDCC panel.



Still without the mag fold.