Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback, starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel with Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho and Bill Nighy in supporting roles. It adapts the 1990 film of the same name, itself inspired by Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, but relocates the story to a futuristic Earth rather than Mars.
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Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback, starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel with Bryan Cranston, Bokeem Woodbine, John Cho and Bill Nighy in supporting roles.
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Total Recall is a 2012 American science fiction action film directed by Len Wiseman from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback, conceived by Wimmer, Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Jon Povill.
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Is Total Recall (2012) a remake of the 1990 film?
The story follows the 1990 film closely, though star Jessica Biel called it an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's original story rather than a remake.
Total Recall (2012) adapts the 1990 film of the same name, itself inspired by Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story We Can Remember It for You Wholesale, but relocates the story to a futuristic Earth rather than Mars. Although the press described the 2012 film as a remake, star Jessica Biel said in an August 2012 television appearance that she considered it an adaptation of Dick's original story rather than a remake of the 1990 film.
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