Leave it be!
Seriously this rebooting of old movies has got to stop. The Arnie version is perfect the way it is. The TV series was dull and boring and it sounds like the reboot is just as dull and boring. Plus will there be Jonny Cab?
Total Recall rehash – exit Martians, enter Jessica Biel
Those film fans among you who were sitting in darkened rooms, trembling at the prospect of Hollywood's re-imagining of Paul Verhoeven's 1990 sci-fi romp Total Recall, should rest assured that things look promising for the latest interpretation of Philip K Dick's We Can Remember It for You Wholesale. First up, Arnold …
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Monday 30th May 2011 08:35 GMT T J
Not a reboot as far as I can tell?
If they are calling it 'Total Recall' then I guess they are rebooting the title. But otherwise this looks like an attempt to actually re-tell the book, which is all anyone should care about.
The Arny film was an utter, utter, steaming abortion. Not even a PKD plot could save it.
So let's see what they come up with.
When you tell a PKD story 'straight', or an approximation of straight, you get a good result.
Screamers was brilliant despite being very low budget, Minority Report survived having Tom Cruise in it, and we all know about Blade Runner.
Now if they want to get real, they should tackle 'The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch'.
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Friday 27th May 2011 09:24 GMT The Fuzzy Wotnot
OK but...
I welcome this one this open arms, especially if Mr Nighy is along for the ride, but please stop using the word "re-imagining".
Happily skipping along the sentances, reading the article then you hit "re-imagining" and it's as if a giant bee as flown into your mouth and your choking while being stung!!
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Friday 27th May 2011 09:27 GMT DF118
It will be difficult to beat Verhoeven's
It's the only movie I can think of where not a single frame is wasted. There is always something happening, and for that reason alone (never mind all the others) it is easily one of the best sci-fi action movies ever made.
Now, compare and contrast with the Twilight franchise...
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Friday 27th May 2011 09:30 GMT Neil Barnes
And only last week...
We had a perfectly good list of science fiction films that haven't been made yet.
What is it that makes Hollywood think the best way to make a film is to find a film already released, cut its head off, pee down the hole, stir well, and glue the head back on backwards to make some sort of shambling imbecilic monster? Does no-one in the 'creative industries' actually have any imagination?
Bah.
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Friday 27th May 2011 12:37 GMT Alien8n
Book version
Agreed, when I saw they were making a film of the story I thought "great!" until I actually saw the film. That's not to say it was total hash, but I felt the original ending of seeing the USA turning into a totalitarian state and the main character's attempts to join the good fight would be a much better ending than "seeing the future causes end of the world". Although the book would probably have been seen as too close to a documentary than science fiction nowadays...
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Friday 27th May 2011 09:47 GMT Marvin the Martian
Quaid? Quail! Please come back, all is forgiven!
I think that's what's actually happening, that harkening. IIRC, there's the memories of Mars in PKD but no actual Mars trip --- and as I read it this movie will stick to that instead of what the 90s movie did.
The proof of the pudding will be in the name of the lead --- Quail (as per PKD) or Quaid (as per Verhoeven).
/"It will be difficult to beat Verhoeven" and there may be laws against it; but I think it's worth a try, he definitely deserves it for Showgirls. Years ago he said he'd like to film the life of Jesus; that I would definitely want to watch -- it'll probably become a facistoid movie like Starship Troopers; I'm sure the church will hate it even more than The Life of Brian! Let's go slaugter some holy cows!
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