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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is the point of a "Total Recall" remake?
It doesn't even go to Mars! It's sacrilege!
siligut
(12,272 posts)Not going to Mars is wrong, but the trailer makes it look like the memory confusion mindscrew might make up for it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,570 posts)I think the clue behind this one is the two female leads. Protagonist and Antagonist. It's going to be a cat fight that will attract the attention of the young males. I don't know the plot of the new miovie, but the use of minorities and physically deformed characters in the first one helped sell the idea that the Mar's citizens were the rejected members of society. Easily killed off without anyone caring. (Much like today's issues.)
They're just going for the quick buck. Young males that like action and babes and aren't too particular with the artistic details.
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)I think Colin will do it better.
PKD fan, I will see this movie.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)Thankfully, he won't be bahk.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)jp11
(2,104 posts)It all started nice then someone decided they need to remake a movie, better technology, new audience, more money and here we are.
There are plenty of original stories that could be brought to the screen but it is just 'safer/cheaper' to redo increasingly 'newer' old movies.
Orrex
(63,083 posts)I mean, no shit. What the hell else are they going to do? Drop $175M on an unknown, untested product just for the sake of bankrupting themselves? Would anyone in the audience undertake such a risky venture?
Sure, a lot of comparatively low-budget movies are terrific... award-winning, in fact. But they don't necessarily make a lot of money, so they're less attractive as business ventures. Even a cheap film costs a lot to market and distribute. NetFlix and YouTube abound with films made on a shoestring and which no one has ever heard of. Most of them are worthy of anonymity, for that matter.
I simply don't understand why anyone still believes, despite 90+ years of evidence to the contrary, that Hollywood is or has ever been a primarily artistic production facility that operates independent of financial constraints.
jp11
(2,104 posts)Orrex
(63,083 posts)Generic Brad
(14,270 posts)I need a remake so I can totally recall it.
Bryan
(1,837 posts)The original screenplay for Total Recall was written by Dan OBannon and Ronald Shusett, the writers of Alien, who had bought the rights to Philip K. Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" while Dick was still alive. They were unable to find a backer for the project and it drifted into development hell, passing from studio to studio. In the mid-1980s, producer Dino De Laurentiis took on the project with Richard Dreyfuss attached to star. Patrick Swayze, who had recently starred in Dirty Dancing, was also considered for the role. David Cronenberg was attached to direct but wanted to cast William Hurt in the lead role. Cronenberg described his work on the project and eventual falling out with Shusett: "I worked on it for a year and did about 12 drafts. Eventually we got to a point where Ron Shusett said, You know what youve done? Youve done the Philip K. Dick version.' I said, 'Isn't that what we're supposed to be doing? He said, 'No, no, we want to do Raiders of the Lost Ark Go to Mars.'"
If there can be three versions of The Maltese Falcon, why can't there be two versions of Total Recall?
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)Wait Wut
(8,492 posts)That's just proof that movie makers are running out of ideas.
RedCloud
(9,230 posts)We need more such movie titles. recall everything.
maybe we will need brains the size of Kansas to do it, but let's do it that way too.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)At least, I hope she shows them.
If not, I'm not interested.
Xyzse
(8,217 posts)Seriously, if they make this PG-13, I'm walking out.
bluedigger
(17,077 posts)provis99
(13,062 posts)Topped only by Lee Marvin and Burt Reynolds.
MrScorpio
(73,626 posts)Well, that makes no freaking sense.
What about the aliens? What about the Turbinium? What about the dome?
mrmpa
(4,033 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)What is it with Hollywood that they have to continuously do remakes.. no one has any imagination any longer.