Total Recall

[beren]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbkUVv5HQIw

[MrB (Simon)]

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 (Michael)]

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]

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 (Jacquie)]

My thoughts exactly - Why? Can't we have something new?

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

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 (Simon)]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

"Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said"

This one is rumoured to be "in development' by The Halcyon Company, which did the Terminator movies.

[Poita (Peter)]

Wasn't Inception just a remake of Total Recall?

[multiweb (Marc)]

Originally Posted by Poita

Wasn't Inception just a remake of Total Recall?

Que? Looking forward to this remake. The CGI looks great and it's action packed.

[Poita (Peter)]

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...al-recall-rebo

[Poita (Peter)]

Originally Posted by mithrandir

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"

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 (Bart)]

Im liking the preview!!!!
Total recall and Blade runner are two of my favourite movies....
Cant wait...hope it stands up to expectations.
Bartman