What happens when you have a franchise that has either run it’s course, or has it’s lead star either too old or unavailable to carry it on. Well you re-cast, and re-boot right?
That’s the general cinematic practice these days isn’t it?
It’s happening with The Terminator franchise and the Conan series, two series’ which made Arnold Schwarzenegger a huge movie star and cemented him into the pop culture of movies forever. Now it’s going to happen with the sci-fi movie Total Recall according to a rumor at Moviehole.
They say that Recall will be getting the franchise re-boot treatment from the Weinsteins who a while ago paid a considerable amount for the rights to remake the original 1990 movie from director Paul Verhoeven.
The original Total Recall is so cool if not particularly great. Based on a Phillip K. Dick novel, the movie actually had a pretty decent performance from Sharon Stone too and grossed a massive $261 million worldwide, which is an awful lot more now when you add inflation. A sequel had been touted for years, tentatively based on the Dick short story The Minority Report, but Spielberg ended up with the rights to it and made that killer movie in 2002.
Well your remaking every other Arnie movie at this point so you might as well re-make Total Recall. A bit of a shame because the original movie holds up quite well today but I will never say it’s a classic… so I’m not getting angry over this one.
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Given the Weinstein’s cinematic record, does anyone believe they’ll get it right? I’m more than skeptical. But of course it has yet to begin, so I’ll be crossing my fingers…and my toes.
Can you guys PLEASE learn how to spell and punctuate properly?
“What happens when you have a franchise that has either run it’s course, or has it’s lead star either too old or unavailable to carry it on…” No no no, it’s ITS, not IT’S, which is a contraction of IT IS.
“Well your remaking every other Arnie movie …” No no no, it’s YOU’RE, a contraction of YOU ARE.
Ah yes, memories of being back in English class at school.