Len wiseman over zijn total recall remake

In een interview met ComingSoon.net heeft regisseur Len Wiseman een update gegeven over Total Recall, de aankomende remake van de gelijknamige cultfilm uit 1990. Daarin zei hij onder meer dat hij zijn director's cut morgen zal inleveren, en dat hij zeer tevreden is over het resultaat, een "combinatie van mysterie, emotie en actie" waarin Colin Farrell een doorslaggevende rol heeft gespeeld.

Verder ging Wiseman uitgebreid in op het meest complexe aspect van de film, nl. de tweeledige verhaalstructuur.

"I think the complexity of the dual stories was the most surprising and challenging thing. When you see Total Recall", the [Paul] Verhoeven film you experience it, it's finished. When you're involved in diving into the material again and going back into the Philip K. Dick story, you realize there is so much to be discussed about the dual stories. There's the reality story and there's the fantasy element. They're running parallel together, so you always have to keep those two alive. That's the inherent nature of the concept and what makes the concept so cool.

I will say, at the same time, this made all of the conversation I had with my cast fun. Every little detail has to apply to both scenarios. My actors would ask, 'So, in this scene, am I - because I know that I'm lying, because I'm the double agent - how well do I act? It sounds like a silly question, but do you want the other character to see through that or am I so good as a double agent that you would never suspect I'm the best buddy or the wife.' It's all of those little things. So, that's my long way of saying the dual nature of the story was the best thing about this."

Total Recall draait vanaf 9 augustus 2012 in de Nederlandse bioscopen. De cast bestaat uit o.a. Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Biel, Bill Nighy, Ethan Hawke en John Cho.

Len Wiseman over zijn Total Recall remake