Back in August, Doug Belgrad and Matthew Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures announced that Len Wiseman (Underworld) would be directing their re-imagining of Total Recall. The film will be a new, contemporized adaptation of the original Total Recall, which was based on Philip K. Dick‘s novelette, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale“.
The screenplay for the adaption is being written by Kurt Wimmer (Salt, Law Abiding Citizen), and the film is being produced by Neal H. Moritz (Battle: Los Angeles).
Moritz recently spoke with Steve over at Collider about the upcoming remake and confirmed that they have cast Colin Farrell (Fright Night, Horrible Bosses) as the main character, Douglas Quaid.
Moritz said:
“We’re doing the movie with Colin Farrell.”
“We’re not gonna do Recall in 3D, we decided that it would be too much.”
“I think the world that Len Wiseman is creating is incredible. It’s a real world, a real future world, where the cities have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up. It’s just everything I see on the movie, every pre-vis I see on the movie, every conceptual drawing on this movie that I see just makes me more and more excited. We’re playing it like a real world, but there’s all these technological advancements to the real world, and it’s just really, it’s cool. It’s an awesome movie. I’m dying-as a fan of movies, more than anything, it’s a movie that I’m just dying to see.”
“It’s closer to the book [Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale”], the big difference is we don’t go to space. Instead of it being a spaceship that takes us to another planet, there’s something that takes us from one side of the planet to another that’s really interesting.”
Farrell has reportedly been putting himself through a vigorous training regime to get in shape for the role, and told Yahoo Movies:
“I’m curious every time I go to work and I’m curious to go to work on ‘Total Recall’, he told the site, “Script is cool. Script is smart. It’s clever and it’s well written and there’s loads of action. I saw some of the pre-visualisations already and it’s the first time in years where I went, ‘Wow! I could be part of that? In that frame?’ It’s gone back to the original.”
Total Recall is slated to hit theaters on August 3rd, 2012.
