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beren
09-06-2012, 10:03 PM
With Prometheus just out we have another sci-fi offering coming up in August with a remake of Total Recall being released, trailer looks good :) Kate Beckinsale looks great :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbkUVv5HQIw
MrB
09-06-2012, 10:10 PM
Hmmm, I'm torn. I hate remakes with a passion.
There are so many other amazing Philip K. Dick short stories that haven't yet been made into movies, they could have done one of them instead.
strongmanmike
10-06-2012, 05:59 AM
Producers and directors try to replace Arnold at their peril - never works, didn't work in Conan remake and undoubtedly won't work here either.....

Schwarzenegger has such larger than life x-factor no body comes close and comparisons are inevitablly negative making such attempts largely flops.

Mike
Ric
10-06-2012, 10:26 AM
It looks interesting but replacing Arnie is a big ask.

I agree with Simon, there are so many brilliant sci-fi stories out there just waiting to be made in a movie, so why rehash something that has already been done.
Blue Skies
10-06-2012, 08:14 PM
My thoughts exactly - Why? :shrug: Can't we have something new?
mithrandir
10-06-2012, 08:26 PM
Just a few PKD books I'd like to see made into movies before a remake of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" :
"Clans of the Alphane Moon"
"The Zap Gun"
"Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said"
"Now Wait for Last Year"
MrB
10-06-2012, 08:41 PM
This one is rumoured to be "in development' by The Halcyon Company, which did the Terminator movies.
Poita
10-06-2012, 10:55 PM
Wasn't Inception just a remake of Total Recall?
multiweb
13-06-2012, 08:28 AM
Que? :question: Looking forward to this remake. The CGI looks great and it's action packed.
Poita
13-06-2012, 10:22 AM
When I watched Inception, I was disappointed, it just seemed almost the exact same concept as Total Recall, even the ending felt the same and you saw it coming a mile off.

There is an interesting article on the remake here:
http://www.ifc.com/fix/2010/07/do-we-need-a-total-recall-rebo
Poita
13-06-2012, 10:24 AM
Now wait for last year would be fantastic, I read that book in one sitting, so in my head I remember it as if it was a film.
bartman
13-06-2012, 02:06 PM
Im liking the preview!!!!
Total recall and Blade runner are two of my favourite movies....
Cant wait...hope it stands up to expectations.
Bartman