http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004451.html?categoryid=13&cs=1
…as long as the guy gets dumped out on Mars and has to scream “AAAALLLLAAALLAALLLLAAALLLL” while his eyes bug out and theres a woman with three breasts
I’m really feeling torn about all these remakes. I mean, it’s great to see movies that I love get redone----and remakes have a long tradition in Holywood, so its not necessarily a new trend.
But, Really? Aren’t there ANY new original idea out there?
Will we never see something new and original like Godfather? Or 2001 Space Odessy? Or The Matrix?
Of course!
Over and over again…
In reality most movies are no original. They have some basis in something else. If they didn’t Joe Campbell would have been out of a job a long time ago. Every once in awhile you get a gem that is mostly new. I for one am ok with the remake of Total Recall. In reality the first one was not the best. What we remember it for really is the silliness of it. I think it would be cool if they did a more hard Sci Fi…or went the other route and did a remake like they did with Trek.
Just do “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” from scratch.
three breasts…just sayin’
I hope they take the ‘Was it real or wasn’t it?’ a little further. You know, really frak with the audience’s head, Freddy Krueger style.
I got an idea. Place cameras in the theatre. Have a scene where the hero is in complete darkness, keep the soundtrack going then turn the cameras on the audience with bluescreen tech have the actor fly/run/whatever through the theatre.
People will have to go to the theatre to experience it.
Now you see, THAT’S what I mean by original thinking. We need people like you in holywood coming up with creative ideas. Not just rehashing the past over and over.
No kidding that short story was much better than what they did with Total Recall.
I’m just not sure what to make of the studio’s choice for the writer to helm this remake. Kurt Wimmer made, in my opinion, one of the most entertaining and visually interesting movies of all time in Equilibrium. Then, he followed it up with arguably the worst film ever made: Ultraviolet. I think the Total Recall remake will decide whether he is on the rebound or going to continue his downward spiral.