Total Recall - *edit* Full Trailer Added.

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**Ahtman**

I forgot they were doing a remake.

No need for a teaser when you can now watch the full trailer. Now with more Ariadna armor, or any Infinity sect I suppose.

**Manchu**

I'll go see this for sure.

**Jihadnik**

Oh, that's weak, what was wrong with Arnie!

**Mannahnin**

Always need more movies based on PK Dick stories. Does anyone else come close to how many of his have been made into movies?

**Manchu**

Charles Dickens maybe.

**Mannahnin**

Well, he did have a headstart. I guess if you count all the remakes of A Christmas Carol that's going to give good ol' PK a run right there.

**Manchu**

Yeah, which is pretty badass considering that almost no one who's not a fan of scifi has even yet heard of PKD while almost everyone has heard of Charles Dickens.

**Kanluwen**

And the fact that he's rather unknown is a shame.

*goes back to reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"*

**Mannahnin**

But they've all heard of movies based on his stuff.

Bladerunner
Total Recall
Minority Report
A Scanner Darkly
Next
Paycheck
The Adjustment Bureau
Screamers

And that's not a complete list. And more stuff is coming; just read and saw that Ridley Scott is supposed to be working on a BBC miniseries of The Man in the High Castle.

**Aduro**

Wait, seriously? All those movies are based on one guys books? I've seen nearly all of those and I had no idea.

**MrDwhitey**

I really enjoyed Screamers.

**Mannahnin**

Yup. Most have them have been re-titled, though. Dick had an amazing, schizophrenic vision of reality and wrote very compelling stories in which we don't always know what's real.

**Jihadnik**

I've got to say, I keep waiting for that book about the autisitic kid on mars to be made into a film. I forget the title, but I've read it several times trying to figure out what was going on!

**Kanluwen**

Richard Matheson is another great author with not nearly enough recognition in my opinion.

I mean seriously. The man is responsible for "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and a ton of The Twilight Zone's more classic stuff. He wrote one of the greatest novels I've ever read on the nature of how who is telling the story can make even the most honorable/just person into the monster of the tale("I Am Legend"), and one of the strangest short stories I've ever read about homicidal children("Witch War").

**Frazzled**

Mannahnin wrote:Always need more movies based on PK Dick stories. Does anyone else come close to how many of his have been made into movies?

Steven King.
It
Salem's Lot
Running Man
Misery
Pet Sematary
Tommyknockers
The Stand
The Mist
Stand by Me
the Shining
Christine
I know I am mising a few

and of course, the Master, HG Wells
War of the Worlds
The Time Machine
Island of Doctor Moreau
First Men in the Moon
Invisible Man
Food of the Gods

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Sorry but Total recall is classic Ahnald. Plus it had Sharon Stone and that angry guy I like.

**Blackskullandy**

Frazzled wrote:...and that angry guy I like.

Michael Ironside?

**Frazzled**

Yes that guy!

**KingCracker**

He plays a great angry guy thats for sure.

I really like Total Recall. I really hope they dont put this one in my ass, Ill be so upset if they do

**Ma55ter_fett**

Trailer is more than a little meh imo.

**Ahtman**

Michale Ironside and Kurtwood Smith in Angry Men: the Movie.

**sirlynchmob**

I refuse to go see anymore remakes, so I'll just rewatch the original when the remake comes out

**kronk**

KingCracker wrote: I really hope they dont put this one in my ass, Ill be so upset if they do

Dude. I should think so...

**Ouze**

Kanluwen wrote:And the fact that he's rather unknown is a shame.

*goes back to reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"*

I don't generally consider Blade Runner to be obscure.

So far as the Total Recall remake:

Spoiler:

**Kanluwen**

Ouze wrote:
Kanluwen wrote:And the fact that he's rather unknown is a shame.

*goes back to reading "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"*

I don't generally consider Blade Runner to be obscure.

Oh, it certainly isn't.

But not everyone reads the credits or knows that it was based upon a book by Philip K. Dick called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"--much like many people don't know that "The Omega Man" was based upon Richard Matheson's "I Am Legend".

**gorgon**

Kanluwen wrote:Richard Matheson is another great author with not nearly enough recognition in my opinion.

I mean seriously. The man is responsible for "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and a ton of The Twilight Zone's more classic stuff. He wrote one of the greatest novels I've ever read on the nature of how who is telling the story can make even the most honorable/just person into the monster of the tale("I Am Legend"), and one of the strangest short stories I've ever read about homicidal children("Witch War").

This is true. Many years ago, I wanted to read "I am Legend," and had a heckuva time finding a copy in libraries. I think it might have been out of print for a while there.

Frazzled wrote:
Mannahnin wrote:Always need more movies based on PK Dick stories. Does anyone else come close to how many of his have been made into movies?

Steven King.
It
Salem's Lot
Running Man
Misery
Pet Sematary
Tommyknockers
The Stand
The Mist
Stand by Me
the Shining
Christine

King's kind of funny IMO. His stuff reads like it's ready-made for movies and TV, but the best (not meaning most faithful) adaptation done of his stuff (Kubrick's Shining) also strayed quite a bit from the source material. King was so unhappy with how it strayed that he made that TV miniseries starring Steven Weber 10-15 years ago. Which was predictably not 1/10th as scary as the Kubrick film, and in retrospect looks like quite the ego trip on King's part.

As I said in the Hunger Games thread, publishers and studios looking for some good tween/teen material should really look to Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles. The only knock against it is that it's old. But because it's fantasy, it's not really dated. Disney did that horrible Black Cauldron film back in the '80s, but no one even remembers it anyway.

**Johnny-Crass**

Remake of a good movie and a rehash of the terrible inception 'soundtrack'... Im going pass

**Kanluwen**

"Remake of a good movie" is what people said about the recent Conan movie; and Jason Momoa was a better Conan than Arnie ever was.

**Manchu**

Man, I wish they'd remake Bladerunner.

**Ouze**

Manchu wrote:Man, I wish they'd remake Bladerunner.

Now we're talking! Maybe with Taylor Lautner or Tatum Channing as Dekard and Katherine Heigl as Rachael.

**Manchu**

Ouze wrote:Maybe with Taylor Lautner or Tatum Channing as Dekard and Katherine Heigl as Rachael.

Be serious, Ouze. I was thinking Hugh Jackman.