Variety has reported that Columbia Pictures has enlisted Kurt Wimmer to write a remake of the Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi flick Total Recall.
Wimmer worked on the Angelina Jolie film “Salt,” as well as “Law Abiding Citizen,” with Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. This film, based on Philip K. Dick’s “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale,” was a gritty action film that explored the class warfare going on between mutants and well-off humans on the alien landscape of Mars.
Yet, I think Total Recall’s most enduring legacy — besides being only the first of two Total Recalls in which Arnold proved victorious — is that of Kuato, which led this surprisingly hypnotic mashup:
Now discuss.
