As part of their week-long interview with Neal Moritz, in which the prolific producer discusses several of his upcoming projects, Collider got the latest on the "Total Recall" remake - and the good news is, it won't be a complete xerox of the Schwarzenegger classic. Nope, seems the do-over will be using the Philip K.Dick-penned novel as it's kick-off point, rather than the previous film version.
''The wish fulfillment of being able to sit in a chair and become who you want to be. To me that was the thing that interested me the most about it'', Moritz, who produced "xXx" and "Fast and the Furious". says. "You know, in the last movie he goes to Mars and we're not doing that. We're not going to go to Mars."
Moritz says Kurt Wimmer's script will encompass quite a fair bit of action but it's more "real" than Paul Verhoeven's version.
Initially, original rights-owners Bob and Harvey Weinstein had hoped to do a sequel to the original 1990 movie - with Schwarzenegger's Doug Quaid taking on 'Martian' Clairvoyants - they even had a script. The script, which itself had been based on another Philip K.Dick story "The Minority Report", would later form the basis of the Tom Cruise/Steven Spielberg flick "Minority Report".
