The Hollywood Reporter are reporting that Colin Farrell is in line to star in the Len Wiseman directed remake of TOTAL RECALL for producer Neil Moritz. Tom Hardy and Michael Fassbender are also in the running for the movie, but according to reports Farrell in the studio’s top choice for the role made famous in the 1990 original by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The production is scheduled to begin in March 2011.
The studio is contemporizing its adaptation of the original 1990 movie, which was based on a Philip K. Dick story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” It followed a man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars who buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
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