Sigh YET another remake annouced (Official Remake Topic)

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[quote="Moriarty"]
Philip K. Dick has had a long and strange relationship with Hollywood, and the crazy part about it is that he's been dead for most of that relationship.

Seems appropriate when you read the man's body of work. He was a brilliant idea man, a SF writer who did the majority of his work in the era when you were paid by the word. He cranked out hundreds of amazing short stories that have proven to be incredibly fertile ground for Hollywood over the years. Frequently, though, they just strip out the big ideas from his work and then dump everything else.

"Total Recall" was a perfect example of that. Based on his short story, "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," the final film by Paul Verhoeven was an action movie that flirted with a few of Dick's amazing ideas, but which ultimately boiled down to Arnold Schwarzenegger shooting people, something that I'm sure would have bored PK Dick enormously.

Since this morning's announcement that there is a new version of "Total Recall" on the way with director Len Wiseman at the helm, with Kurt ("Salt," "Equilibrium," "The Thomas Crown Affair") Wimmer writing it, I've seen many people grousing about the remake of a film they enjoy. But are we sure we can even call this a remake? If they go back to the source material, they could make a film so completely different that it might be totally unrecognizable. It sounds to me more like they're using a title people know, but making something different.

We won't know, of course, until we hear some story details. For now, here's the press release Sony sent out today to announce Wiseman's hiring:

"Len Wiseman is in final negotiations to direct Columbia Pictures’ Total Recall, it was announced today by Doug Belgrad and Matt Tolmach, presidents of Columbia Pictures. The film will be a new, contemporized adaptation of Total Recall, which was based on the story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesaleâ€

[kidnicky]

"We Can Remember....." is a much better title. They should call it that.
Does anyone else think it's overkill to make TWO movies out of a story that's like 30 pages long?