They're remaking "Total Recall"?

I didn't know there was a big call for this movie to get remade? I liked it back in the day, but it wasn't great. Supposedly, the new movie will stay more true to Philip K. Dick's original story.

Kate Beckinsale will play the part Sharon Stone played in the original. Hopefully, she'll be in some skintight black latex...

http://blastr.com/2011/04/kate-beckinsale-could-kic.php

Kate Beckinsale could kick Colin Farrell's butt in Total Recall reboot

Kate Beckinsale—who's been playing that raven-haired vamp beauty Selene in all those Underworld movies—sure loves kicking ass (at least in the movies). And she may well go on to kick Colin Farrell's very own baby cheeks in that Total Recall remake. Can we have a HOORAY?

According to Deadline, the actress was recently offered the role of Douglas Quaid's (played by Colin Farrell) perfidious wife Lori in the Sony Pictures remake of the 1990 Paul Verhoeven-directed sci-fi action film.

The 1990 film starred that tower of muscles, Arnold Schwarzenneger, and an as-yet-relatively-unknown Sharon Stone as the seemingly perfectly married couple Douglas and Lori Quaid. It was also set on Mars, as in Philip K. Dick's original story ("We Can Remember It for You Wholesale").

I place that weenie on the same approximate spot of the food chain as Nicolas Cage.

which was directed by Paul Verhoeven of "basic instinct" fame.

In the story, he never actually went to Mars. And the ending really was a nice surprise twist.

I think if they used the original story ending as a take off, a remake would be a big hit and really take people unaware since they would be expecting the Arnold version.

In the scene where Quaid goes to the Recall place and gets in the chair, a technician in the background very quietly says, "Blue Sky on Mars? That's a new one." Most people miss that line, but it pretty much explains the whole thing.

"Society wants your pants to be intact but you're just not going to listen, are you?"

:rofl:

:sarcasm:

Bake

My biggest gripe is with remakes of great movies. What bozos thought tampering with the likes of King Kong and War of the Worlds was a smart move? You can't improve on classics. But you can improve on bad 80's movies directed by Paul Verhoeven (I'm being redundant, I know). This is EXACTLY the kind of movie that should be remade. :)

is supposed to be very good - "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale"

A good movie adaption would be cool. :)

I've been working my way through my collection of old science fiction anthologies and that was in one of them. I love the original ending.

Best movie ever made. Ever.

I sat through the whole thing.

I have a fondness for stories about mind-control and Philip K. Dick is one of my heroes. Kate and Colin, they are just incidental, both can act and not detract. I am looking forward to seeing the story retold.

People need to leave the great Hollywood classics alone. Next thing you know, they'll be colorizing "Howard the Duck"

ok, maybe not a remake and combination of Casablanca and Total Recall

ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, STARSHIP TROOPERS, BASIC INSTINCT. I was wondering if I was ever going to come across a Paul Verhoeven film that didn’t play out like some adolescent boy’s wet dream. Let’s see; giant alien bugs, half man/half robot cop, Arnold causing a ruckus on Mars, rampant lesbianism. Yup, all things I dreamed about when I was twelve. However, as fate would have it, just when I was about to lose hope in the would-be-auteur that is Verhoeven, he stunned me. I, against my better judgment, picked up a copy of SHOWGIRLS. Between the horrible word-of-mouth and the fact that it was another Verhoeven joint, I had low expectations to say the least. What I didn’t expect to find was an intimate, endearing, and even unique portrayal of one young woman’s ascent to stardom as a Las Vegas showgirl. What I’m trying to say is: SHOWGIRLS is Verhoeven’s masterpiece.

You all know the story of SHOWGIRLS by now. If you don’t, than you should stop reading this and watch it. And then watch it again shot by shot so that you can truly revel in every exquisite detail. And by every detail, I clearly am referring to Ms. Elizabeth Berkley’s portrayal of “you don’t” Nomi Malone; a performance that was clearly robbed of numerous awards in 1995. She did manage to win the Razzie for Worst Actress, which is something I’ll never understand. Clearly her work is too cerebral for mere awards voters to properly recognize. Joining Ms. Berkley we have Special Agent Dale Cooper himself, Kyle MacLachlan as well as the ever loveable Gina Gershon. So, we have Verhoeven going from Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Douglas to a cast comprised of stars of TV shows: SAVED BY THE BELL, TWIN PEAKS and MELROSE PLACE, respectively. Most would scoff at this idea, but it is a brilliant move on Verhoeven’s part. Working outside of the Hollywood star system allowed Verhoeven to breathe and to take full control over his film. It also gave him actors that would be daring and in roles that truly required them to be. Sure, he may have got Sharon Stone to flash some camel toe (or did he?) and he may have convinced Arnold to candidly pick his nose but nothing compares to the revelatory moments he garners from his impeccable cast here. Take the scene where Berkley and MacLachlan get jiggy with it in his pool for example, these two don’t merely “fuck”. No, they apparently have champagne induced seizures and appear to genuinely be engaged in coitus. This isn’t a brief vag-flash or gargantuan booger removal, this is passion at 24fps and it can only be seen in SHOWGIRLS.

more....
http://www.bloodsprayer.com/featured/the-showgirls-effect-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-doubting-verhoeven-and-love-his-masterpiece/

Robert Davi who played Al Torres:

Al Torres: It must be weird, not having anybody cum on your back.

:rofl:

Starship Troopers is a sarcastic masterpiece that predicted the War on Terror and the media's cheerleading of it seven years in advance.

I'm pretty sure Mr. V. was trolling us with Showgirls, as well.

How can you tell?