Total Recall remake in the works

Sigh. The remake machine rumbles on, and Total Recall may be heading back to our screens... Why?!

Back when Arnold Schwarzenegger's career was on the rise, Total Recall gave him his first major summer hit. Coming out in 1990, and directed by Paul Verhoeven (himself red hot after Robocop), the film cleaned up at the box office, and paved the way for Arnie to dominate the box office again the following year with Terminator 2.

And, to be perfectly frank, it was a really good high budget sci-fi movie.

In recent times, there's been word and rumour about a possible sequel to the film, and thankfully that never materialised. But something a little more scary may be on the horizon: a remake of the film. It really has got to the stage where we're talking about remakes of films made in the 1990s. How frightening is that?

The film was based on the Philip K Dick story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, and now apparently producer Neil H Moritz is keen to revisit it. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting, as it does, that Moritz is in talks with the current rights-holders - Columbia Pictures - about what the site calls "a contemporary version" of the film. It also mentions that the parties are in "final negotiations", which hints to us that a deal is close to being done.

No further details on the project are surfacing at the moment, but it is one of those pieces of news that makes us potentially despair. Unless they're going right back to the short story and trying to do something different with that, we really can't see the point.

What next? Remaking Independence Day or something?