Nobody thinks a Total Recall remake is a good idea, but it's still happening. And now it's been announced that Underworld director Len Wiseman is in final talks to direct, from a script by Equilibrium/Ultraviolet director Kurt Wimmer. This will be a new "contemporized" adaptation. The press release quotes Wiseman: I've always been fascinated with Philip K. Dick's short story, and I'm excited at that prospect of diving even deeper into the type of world it evokes and the questions it asks. I love that the most crucial mystery our character is trying to solve is the one of his own soul. As UGO's Jordan Hoffman puts it: Aronofsky to remake RoboCop? Okay, I'm curious. Len Wiseman doing Total Recall - smells like Rollerball all over again. [Coming Soon, via Jordan Hoffman on Twitter]
-
A Total Recall remake from the director of Underworld and Live Free Or Die Hard? [Breaking News]
- Tags:
- Movies
- Breaking News
- Equilibrium
- Kurt Wimmer
- Len Wiseman
- Please go dno
- robocop
- rollerball
- Total Recall
- Ultraviolet
July 29 2010, 11:36am | Comments »
-
A Total Recall remake from the director of Underworld and Live Free Or Die Hard? [Breaking News]
Nobody thinks a Total Recall remake is a good idea, but it's still happening. And now it's been announced that Underworld director Len Wiseman is in final talks to direct, from a script by Equilibrium/Ultraviolet director Kurt Wimmer. This will be a new "contemporized" adaptation. The press release quotes Wiseman: I've always been fascinated with Philip K. Dick's short story, and I'm excited at that prospect of diving even deeper into the type of world it evokes and the questions it asks. I love that the most crucial mystery our character is trying to solve is the one of his own soul. As UGO's Jordan Hoffman puts it: Aronofsky to remake RoboCop? Okay, I'm curious. Len Wiseman doing Total Recall - smells like Rollerball all over again. [Coming Soon, via Jordan Hoffman on Twitter]
- Tags:
- Movies
- Breaking News
- Equilibrium
- Kurt Wimmer
- Len Wiseman
- Please go dno
- robocop
- rollerball
- Total Recall
- Ultraviolet
July 29 2010, 8:36am | Comments »
-
Roland Emmerich On 2012 Sequel: It's Lost Meets District 9 [Breaking]
http://io9.com/5398037/roland-emmerich-on-2012-sequel-its-lost-meets-district-9
Just seconds after telling us that he makes disaster movies because he hates sequels, director Roland Emmerich spilled all about his new ABC TV series 2013, that picks up after the waves part. It sounds epic. Spoiler warning. At the end of 2012 the cast members who have survived the massive floods and volcanic destruction on Earth head over to Africa, the new center of the world. What happens next has just been picked up by ABC as a television series that Emmerich is helping out with. We got the chance to find out more about his post-post-apocalypse series at the 2012 press day. io9: You may dislike sequels but I hear you are interested in making a TV series sequel to the this film called 2013? Roland Emmerich: But that's something different. It's something like Lost, which has a totally different feel to it. It's more than a little bit like District 9. These ships show up in Africa and [in] Cape Town there are survivors, and they are not happy people. Because they were left behind. And how do you start a new society? It has no visual effects, it's all about characters. What will the future bring? Hope for us? Will 2013 have to happen pretty quickly after this movie is released? Do you have any actors or additional writers in mind? They just made a deal with ABC. And we're very happy about that. I'm already discussing with the people that write and try to help them with what this could be. The original idea is from [2012 co-writer] Harold [Kloser], me and Mark Gordon. Mark is big in TV so Harold and I had an idea. Because there were a lot of things we couldn't incorporate in 2012. And we thought it was interesting what happened after all this. When we were writing the script we had to end it at one point and we left it very vague. They discovered that Africa is still existing. It has just risen a couple thousand feet. But that's it. And we ended on a really really small note about a little girl who overcame her fear. It was a very small way [to end]. Which was also kind of for us something very personal and poignant. [In the sequel] people would expect visual effects but it will be only what happened between people. We can do that on a TV show week after week after week. It's just the fact that they come off their shiny arcs to a destroyed Cape Town. And it's not the bright and happy future everybody was envisioning. It's same old problems.
November 5 2009, 12:00pm | Comments »
1