A new Total Recall movie is on the way

A new Total Recall movie is about to come out, but was it really a necessary remake? Perhaps few people remember the 1990 movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. I remember the original movie had some unsettling visuals, including freakish aliens, a man getting his arms cut off by an elevator and a close up of Schwarzenegger's face as the broken visor of his spacesuit exposes him to the absence of atmosphere on Mars. Will the new movie be just as fun and gritty?

The original short story by Philip K. Dick is a forgotten classic. Dick wrote a tremendous amount of short stories and a lot of them have been made into movies: Minority Report, Paycheck, A Scanner Darkly, Blade Runner, Impostor, Screamers and Next. And yet none of these movies truly makes justice to Dick's genius ideas, which sometimes suffered from his rushed writing and his inability to develop them any further.

I would like to see a new Total Recall movie closely based on Dick's short story. His style is hard to transcribe on the screen, but I think Ridley Scott did a remarkable job with his Blade Runner. It seems like the new Total Recall has a decent budget: perhaps we will see sets and special effects closer to what Dick had in mind.

Even though the original Total Recall movie is not that great, I think it has a small following and a lot of people remember the fun parts of the movie, including Schwarzenegger's character. I think the new movie will be more inspired by the 1990 version than by the original short story because this is what most of the audience is expecting.