According to the latest reports from the US, Colin Farrell has been offered the lead role in Len Wiseman's forthcoming remake of Total Recall...
There were stories emanating from Hollywood a few weeks ago about the possibility of Colin Farrell starring in Len Wiseman’s forthcoming Total Recall remake, and according to a story published by Variety this weekend, he’s now been formally offered the role previously filled by the mountainous bulk of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall was an early-90s classic, of course, and it’s encouraging that an actor so markedly different from Schwarzenegger has been chosen.
It’s evidence that Wiseman’s production won’t be a mere rehash of Verhoeven’s ultra-violent movie, but perhaps a more accurate retelling of Philip K. Dick’s source story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.
That story’s protagonist was, like most of Dick’s central characters, an ordinary, unassuming everyman. Farrell would therefore be perfectly suited to the role if Wiseman and scriptwriter Kurt Wimmer are planning to adhere more closely to Dick’s tale, with the acting ability to convey an ordinary man with a hidden, extraordinary past on Mars.
More news on the Total Recall remake as we get it.
Variety
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