Kurt Wimmer To Write Total Recall Remake
Philip K. Dick’s novel We Can Remember It for You Wholesale is getting a more contemporary adaptation this time around with a remake of its film version, the classic Total Recall. Kurt Wimmer has been tapped to write Columbia’s new version of Recall, which Neal H. Moritz is developing and producing through his Original Films banner.
Based on Dick’s novel the film is said to follow the original premise more closely revolving around Douglas Quail, a simple and ordinary man, who wishes to visit Mars. Unable to afford it, he visits a company, Rekal, that offers implanted memories (“extra-factual memory”).
The attempt to implant some racy Mars memories of Quail as a secret agent reveals that Quail actually is an undercover government assassin with a mind full of dangerous secrets. The Rekal staff quickly get Quail out of there; he heads home and finds certain physical evidence to support his new old memories. The government initially seeks his death but instead Quail manages to make a deal. He returns to Rekal to have his Mars memories once more suppressed, and is offered by way of compensation a set of heroic wish-fulfillment false memories. The Rekal staff begin the memory-implanting procedure — and uncover a different and older set of suppressed memories revealing that the unbelievable memories they are about to insert are already there and are true. It features a classic meshing of reality, false memory and real memory.
I see the new film being a cross between the Bourne Identity and Blade Runner. I have high expectations for this film because mirroring the book can make a completely new movie not similar in any respect to the classic version of the 80s, which is one of my dad and I’s most watched movies.
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