Colin Farrell has been cast in Len Wiseman's Total Recall remake. It comes as no suprise with Farrell turning down David Cronenberg's Cosmopolis. The actor is eager to get started with the remake of the 1990 sci-fi juggernaut which stared Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"I’m curious every time I go to work and I’m curious to go to work on Total Recall," says Farrell. "Script is cool. Script is smart. It’s clever and it’s well written and there’s loads of action. I saw some of pre-visualizations already and it’s the first time in years where I went, ‘Wow! I could be part of that? In that frame?’ It’s gone back to the original." Producer Neal Moritz recently confirmed via Collider that the remake will not be shot in 3D: "We’re not gonna do Recall in 3D, we decided that it would be too much." Moritz also talked about the world they’re creating for the remake:
“I think the world that Len Wiseman is creating is incredible. It’s a real world, a real future world, where the cities have just gotten so overcrowded that the cities are just built up, up, up, up. It’s just everything I see on the movie, every pre-vis I see on the movie, every conceptual drawing on this movie that I see just makes me more and more excited. We’re playing it like a real world, but there’s all these technological advancements to the real world, and it’s just really, it’s cool. It’s an awesome movie. I’m dying as a fan of movies, more than anything, it’s a movie that I’m just dying to see.” “It’s closer to the book, the big difference is we don’t go to space.”
