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‘Total Recall’ Remake Gets An Official Mars-Free Plot Synopsis | /Film

All’s been quiet on the Total Recall front as of late. The last post we put up regarding the Len Wiseman-directed reboot starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston and John Cho, was a few set videos of hover crafts from the film. That was September. Now it’s January, the film is eight months away and Sony has released an official plot synopsis. Though we knew many of these details – i.e. There’s no Mars – it’s still pretty revealing.

Here’s the official plot synopsis for Len Wiseman’s Total Recall, out August 3.

“Total Recall” is an action thriller about reality and memory, inspired anew by the famous short story “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

The words “inspired anew” made me smile. Minus the interplanetary travel, it pretty much sounds like the exact same movie as Paul Verhoeven’s original. Maybe you don’t need Mars? Possibly? I’m trying to convince myself here.
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Kinda glad these got rejected. Still a little too close to that Emmerich debacle. And they just do not look majestic enough.
 
Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s LOOPER Make-Up Designed to Resemble Bruce Willis

In Rian Johnson‘s upcoming sci-fi action film Looper, Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays Joe, a looper (a hitman who kills people sent back in time by mobs in the future) who eventually has to face-off against his future self (played by Bruce Willis). When casting was announced, we didn’t really think twice about the two actors not resembling each other. It was simple suspension of disbelief. But Johnson is having none of that. The Brick director tells the LA Times that Gordon-Levitt will be spending three hours a day in a make-up chair and wear practical prosthetics to resemble the older actor.

Hit the jump for Johnson’s explanation on how Gordon-Levitt will be playing Willis. Johnson also talks about how time travel will be used in the movie. Looper opens September 28th.

So how is Joseph Gordon-Levitt playing Bruce Willis beyond wearing prosthetics? Johnson explains to the LA Times:


“But the biggest thing is Joe’s performance, he’s really doing Bruce in a big and daring way, but he strikes a balance between obviously imitating Bruce and also building this organic performance.”
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Pretty ambitious. JGL is turning into a pretty decent actor. I am actually getting very interested in this movie.
 
jerseydevil said:
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Kinda glad these got rejected. Still a little too close to that Emmerich debacle. And they just do not look majestic enough.
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i think they need to cut and paste and concept draw and collage images of some sort of original Godzilla / Harryhausen's Kraken / Cloverfiled monster / Rancor etc. to come up with something fearsome more 'majestic' as you put it.

this whole Allosaurus, late Jurrasic hybrid thing is just not working for me.
 
gescom said:
i think they need to cut and paste and concept draw and collage images of some sort of original Godzilla / Harryhausen's Kraken / Cloverfiled monster / Rancor etc. to come up with something fearsome more 'majestic' as you put it.

this whole Allosaurus, late Jurrasic hybrid thing is just not working for me.
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Wha.... I mea.... but it's..............

You guys realize it's ****ing Godzilla you're talking about right?

Why not just make it another dude in a giant rubber suit already?
 
LOCK-OUT MS ONE Movie Featurette

A new featurette for the sci-fi action flick Lock-Out (aka MS One) starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace. The film centers on a wrongly-accused spy (Pearce) who must rescue the President’s daughter (Grace) from an orbiting prison. We’ve already seen from the trailers that Pearce is going to play a wise-cracking badass and this new featurette is basically centered on that character. I’m not sure how the rest of the movie will be, but if it works, Pearce is going to be a large reason why.
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Liv Tyler to Star in Ti West's The Side Effect

Writer-director Ti West (The Innkeepers) has found the star of his next project. Deadline reports that Liv Tyler will star in the psychological sci-fi thriller The Side Effect. The horror story centers on “a woman who spends several months alone in space as an experimental subject for a global pharmaceutical company, and finds herself inexplicably pregnant.” So it’s kind of like Moon, but with the added terrors of ghost reproduction. Though the film is still in the horror genre, West insists that it’s fairly different from his previous films as it focuses more on the psychological.

I’d expect a title change on The Side Effect, as Steven Soderbergh is gearing up to shoot a film called The Side Effects. West will be at Sundance next week to debut the found-footage horror film V/H/S which he co-directed. If you’re unfamiliar, his earlier works include The House of the Devil and Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. Tyler will also be in attendance at Sundance with her latest effort Robot and Frank.
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Be interesting to see if the overconfident West can do something a little different.
 
Warner Bros. Puts ARTHUR & LANCELOT on Hold; Pushes JACK THE GIANT KILLER 3D Back to 2013

Not long after Warner Bros. was reportedly getting cold feet with the swelling budget of David Dobkin’s Arthur & Lancelot, it looks like the studio has officially hit the pause button. The film, starring Kit Herington (Game of Thrones) and Joel Kinnaman (The Darkest Hour) in a reimagined Arthurian legend, was supposed to open March 15, 2013. Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers) reportedly informed cast and crew that it “wasn’t looking good,” although studio insiders confirm they’re trying to make the project work. Warner envisions the tone of Arthur & Lancelot to be in a similar vein to their Sherlock Holmes franchise, but will have to negotiate budget and scheduling difficulties. Herington, will return to Game of Thrones this spring while Kinnaman is expected to segue into the film shoot after wrapping on AMC’s The Killing. The project may move forward without one or both of the actors. Hit the jump for news regarding the delay of Bryan Singer’s Jack the Giant Killer 3D and Rock of Ages.

THR reports that the fantasy film, Jack the Giant Killer 3D will be pushed back to March 22, 2013, a delay of nine months from its original June 15th opening of this year. This move puts it out of the blast radius of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises, which opens this July and will likely dominate the summer box office. Additionally, the new release date allows more time to fine tune special effects and gives the Warners an opportunity to attach trailers to Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Jack and the Giant Killer 3D stars Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci and Nicholas Hoult.
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Warner Brothers Acquires Tad Williams Sci-Fi Series ‘Otherland’ | Geeks of Doom

Warner Brothers, in always looking for the next big thing—especially now that their Harry Potter series has come to an end (…for now)—has acquired the feature film rights to Otherland, the sci-fi tetralogy by author Tad Williams.

The studio has also brought in screenwriter John Scott III to pen the first script of what they hope turns into multiple scripts in a successful new franchise.



The series of books includes four installments published between 1996 and 2001, titled City of Golden Shadow, River of Blue Fire, Mountain of Black Glass, and Sea of Silver Light.

They take place in a world about 100 years in the future where the internet has evolved into a fully immersive virtual reality so incredible that you can basically enter an almost lucid dream type state, able to experience any time or any life or any story you wish as if it were real.

Called the Net (keep in mind the first book was released way back in ’96), these simulations offer users the chance to enter into their own interpretations of classic works of literature as Through the Looking-Glass, The Odyssey, The Iliad, The War of the Worlds, and The Wizard of Oz, or even live in today’s equivalent of an MMORPG based on the works of J.R.R. Tolkien.

The planned first WB movie will follow a “group of unlikely heroes” (probably normal everyday folks in this amazing virtual world) who find themselves on a journey through many different areas of the virtual reality trying to uncover the answers to a conspiracy that could destroy humanity, all while an assassin is on their trail.

Speaking of MMOs, there’s one based on the Otherland series in the works that will supposedly release some time in 2012.
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Over 400 Pages Of Original ‘Akira’ Storyboards Available For Download | Geeks of Doom

With the live-action remake of the seminal 1988 Japanese animated futuristic action epic Akira that absolutely no one was asking for recently being shut down due to budgetary concerns (apparently Warner Bros. thinks a sprawling science-fiction adventure set in a dystopian future can be made for less than the cost of an Adam Sandler movie) there’s no time like the present to begin your appreciation of the original manga-inspired film.

Tumblr user Otomblr has given fans of the Katsuhiro Ohtomo-directed anime classic a special treat: over 400 pages of the film’s storyboards assembled into their original continuity. You can check out a gallery of the storyboards here below.



We’re talking thousands of storyboards here, ladies and gentlemen, and there is some amazing artwork on display. Most of the images here are quite evocative of Ohtomo’s manga graphic novel that the movie was based on. This is a magnificent find any fan of the film or anyone interested in classic hand-drawn animation will find fascinating.

You can download the entire 100 MB PDF file here.
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LOCKOUT Trailer Starring Guy Pearce and Maggie Grace

The domestic trailer has debuted for the sci-fi prison break film Lockout. The first half of the trailer is pretty rote, with lines like “He’s the best there is, but he’s a loose cannon.” It picks up when Guy Pearce appears, but altogether the tone here is wildly different from the international trailers we’ve seen previously. The action looks great, but Pearce’s charisma is almost entirely absent here. It’s a shame, because the movie actually looks really, really good in the other trailers. It’s cool and strange, and Pearce is hilarious as a wisecracking badass. Hopefully we’ll get a differently cut trailer soon, but for now US audiences will have to settle for this generic actioner.

Hit the jump to watch the trailer. Produced by Luc Besson, the film stars Pearce, Maggie Grace, and Peter Stormare.
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