As part of their week-long interview with Neal Moritz, in which the prolific producer discusses several of his upcoming projects, Collider got the latest on the "Total Recall" remake - and the good news is, it won't be a complete xerox of the Schwarzenegger classic. Nope, seems the do-over will be using the Philip K.Dick-penned novel as it's kick-off point, rather than the previous film version.

''The wish fulfillment of being able to sit in a chair and become who you want to be. To me that was the thing that interested me the most about it'', Moritz, who produced "xXx" and "Fast and the Furious". says. "You know, in the last movie he goes to Mars and we're not doing that. We're not going to go to Mars."

Moritz says Kurt Wimmer's script will encompass quite a fair bit of action but it's more "real" than Paul Verhoeven's version.

Initially, original rights-owners Bob and Harvey Weinstein had hoped to do a sequel to the original 1990 movie - with Schwarzenegger's Doug Quaid taking on 'Martian' Clairvoyants - they even had a script. The script, which itself had been based on another Philip K.Dick story "The Minority Report", would later form the basis of the Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg flick "Minority Report".


http://www.collider.com/2010/04/06/exclusive-producer-neal-moritz-on-shane-blacks-doc-savage-the-remake-of-total-recall-and-flash-gordon/

Yeah, whatever. :crazy:

This is one of my favorite Arnold movies. I hope they don't F it up.

It would be nice to see a closer adaptation of the original story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale"- but most likely we'll get another remake like Burton's Planet of the Apes.
If you're going to remake something that is based on a story/book adapt from that and not a previous film's screenplay. That's why I'd still like to see a new adaptation of Bloch's Psycho- people who haven't read the original novel would be surprised at how it differs from Hitchcock's version.

The '90s remake of Psycho made no sense whatsoever, as it was a shot-for-shot replication of the original. If you're going to remake something, at least put your own stamp on it.

And as for you, Monika, I can't wait for Yeah, Whatever: The Movie. At least it's not a remake.;)

If you're going to remake something that is based on a story/book adapt from that and not a previous film's screenplay. That's why I'd still like to see a new adaptation of Bloch's Psycho- people who haven't read the original novel would be surprised at how it differs from Hitchcock's version.

I read the novel so I know how different it is. I never read the other two books Psycho II and Psycho House though...


I don't remember all of the differences but I remember things like having Norman Bates look more like Vincent D'Onofrio. Bates was in his mid-40s, bald, and overweight.

He also decapitated Marion in the shower.