Kate Beckinsale Interview

[Diary Total Recall]

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Jessica Biel Interview

[Diary Total Recall]

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Colin Farrell Interview

[Diary Total Recall]

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Director Len Wiseman Interview

[Diary Total Recall]

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Interview With Colin Farrell On Total Recall

[Diary Total Recall]

Colin Farrell has big shoes to fill, both literally and figuratively, as he steps into the role of Douglas Quaid in Sony’s Total Recall remake, which hits theatres this Friday.

The role, which was made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1990 film of the same name, is that of a “simple worker suffering from strange violent dreams.” From there, things take off and Quaid soon finds himself on the run as he tries to unravel the secrets of his past.

Recently, at the film’s LA press day, we sat down with Farrell and discussed with him his role in the film. The actor spoke to us about acting opposite himself, kissing the director’s wife, comparisons with the original Total Recall and much, much more.

We Got This Covered: You had a couple scenes in Total Recall where you were acting opposite yourself. How was that?

Colin Farrell: Movie magic put me in. I remember Sam Jackson saying he loved green screen, because he was working with his favorite actor: himself (laughs). It was fun to do Quaid and Hauser. Hauser was after the fact. That thing on the piano was done 7 or 8 months after the film was finished shooting.

We Got This Covered: Did you go back and look at the original Total Recall before you started filming?

Colin Farrell: I did, but for no other reason than just boldness. Probably more to annoy myself and give myself a dose of the nerves, really. And to see if I could instill myself with any premature regret. I only looked at the film after I had signed on to do it. I’d probably seen the original four or five times in my life and loved it the first time I saw it.

I’ve said in press before that I wasn’t weaned on Arnie’s stuff, but I remember all of his films growing up, from Commando to Red Heat, from Terminator to Running Man and Predator, which still stands to this day as one of the great action films ever made, so I had an idea of what I was getting into. There’s a corner of the film fanatical society of the world that really loved that film and probably feels strongly against anyone revisiting the material, you know. It was different enough. Tonally, when I read the sсript, it felt so different, even though the plot points are the same.

We Got This Covered: This is the second Philip K. Dick adaptation that you’ve done. Did you read the original story?

Colin Farrell: I did read it. I just marveled about how many tiered levels of complexity that Philip K. Dick could achieve in such a short space of time in regards to the fracturing of a person’s psychology and the uncertainty of what was real and what was not. I did such a number on the short story. I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was brilliant. It was nothing like either of the films.

To me, the concept of the implantation of a memory and experience, that’s a fantastic concept, but how that is fleshed out into a feature length story in both films is incredibly different than the short story. I know I’ve read that “this film goes back to the short story” but I’m thinking, “No, it doesn’t. That’s bogus.”

I think, in reflection, that it may be a little bit closer to the short story just because there’s slightly more tension paid to the psychological journey and the existential crisis that Quaid finds himself in in the remake rather than the original. I may be wrong. I haven’t seen the film. I should maybe go and have a look at it, but I think I’ll wait until Wednesday. (laughs)

We Got This Covered: Were you surprised that there weren’t more lines of dialogue closer associated with the original?

Colin Farrell: No. If you’re trying to be different for the sake of being different, then as a general rule, you’ll probably get yourself in a bit of trouble eventually. I think the same rule holds if you’re doing a remake. If you can somehow manage to find a way to have some level of unique storytelling and filmmaking when something is being revisited, while still honoring the context and the story of that thing you want to remake in the first place, well that’s probably a really smart move. I think that’s what the writers on Total Recall seemed to manage. I certainly felt that way when I read it.

There are no one-liners in the film. I like that it went in a different direction. I like that there’s no Mars in the third act. Even though, I was annoyed as a film fan thinking “Aw, there’s no Mars, no mutants, no little person with a machine gun on a bar shooting people.”

The fan in me was going through the things he wanted in the film, but that was the fan in me. He’s a nice guy and stuff, but he’s ten and I say that without any judgment, but I didn’t want him making creative decisions in the film. There was literally a couple more things I would have liked to see in the remake, but I went “No, trust what this is. Trust that it’s different. Trust that it’s a new vision of a story already told,” and that was it.

We Got This Covered: With the current state of the economy, do you think the story of a guy looking to go somewhere to get an escape makes it even more relevant today?

Colin Farrell: Yes. I think anything that is external of the self used to experience some escape from where we find ourselves in our lives at any time, there’s usually some catch inherent in something like that, whether it’s booze or drugs. Maybe the catch is anything that exceeds moderation can get a little bit messier. The catch with this is implicit. When I ask Bokeem’s character if he’s heard of Rekall and he goes “Oh, they mess with your mind,” it alludes to the fact that the science isn’t completely down yet.

The way Len wanted to design it kind of suggests that it’s a little more back-alley than it was in the original. There’s no doubt that every day we’re looking for meaning in our lives. Every single one of us is. I think that starts very young. You’re looking at your parents, if you’re fortunate enough to have both parents, one parent, foster care or whatever it may be, you’re constantly looking for meaning. You’re looking for where you fit in the grand scheme of things.

Total Recall was first and foremost a big action film, there was plenty of existential questioning that I could afford myself as an actor approaching the material about the nature of personality and character and the relevance of history and background. Of course, Quaid finds himself as a new man who is rid of every kind of memory he has in life. Everything that he believes is true, real and experienced is shown to be a fabrication ten or fifteen minutes in. He has no idea who he is. He just has certain feelings and suspicions and doubts more than confirmations. The whole story is him looking to, whether it’s psychologically, emotionally or a marriage of both, confirm to himself who he is.

We Got This Covered: Was it uncomfortable kissing the director’s wife?

Colin Farrell: Oh yeah (laughs). It’s one of the more unfortunate positions I’ve found myself in in fifteen years of doing this racket. And Len wasn’t even polite enough to leave the room. Thank god it barely touched first base.

We Got This Covered: Did you want him to leave the room?

Colin Farrell: No, not at all (laughs).

We Got This Covered: Most sci-fi projects see a pretty bleak future. What you think about the vision of an optimistic future as opposed to the ones commonly seen?

Colin Farrell: Sometimes, the best way to show a person where they are is to show them where they’re heading. Sometimes, people are too close to something to see how it is, but if they’re given a concept of how it might become, they can, through the reference of that concept, have a clearer picture of what stares them straight in the face.

I think science fiction allows a certain distance and a certain objectivity where you go “It’s in the future, so it’s not happening.” So, there’s not an immediate fear or defensiveness that kicks in. Whereas, if it was a criticism of something in the present, it’s too close. It’s too personal that it can’t be allowed to be something that’s actually happening.

It seems that science fiction has the prism of being unreal, a prism of being a future that doesn’t exist and is incredibly fictional. It allows certain things that are very topical and pertinent to be addressed in a way that is kind of subversive, that’s kind of secretive, that kind works on a more subversive level.

The things that Philip K. Dick wrote about are things that human beings have dealt with time memorial since when we were tribal races dotted all over the planet. The idea of power and autonomy and the collective society, the elder and the high priest or the presidents or the chancellors and a group of political aids taking care and representing the goodwill of greater people. The idea of a class system. The upper classes and the proletariat and all these things. So, I think that’s what Philip K. Dick’s writing will continue to be as relevant in eons to come as when he put pen to paper.

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Kate Beckinsale on Her Total Recall Villainess and Other People’s Perceptions: It’s ‘

[Diary Total Recall]

At one point, Kate Beckinsale remembers, director Len Wiseman thought of tapping her for a cameo as a three-breasted hooker in his Total Recall remake. Luckily for the actress, Wiseman (who directed the British beauty in Underworld and Underworld: Evolution — and happens to be her husband in real life) instead cast Beckinsale in the much juicier role of Lori, the adoring wife of factory worker Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell) whom Quaid discovers is actually an undercover agent hellbent on killing him. Consider that a divorce, indeed. Expanded considerably by scribes Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback as an amalgam of Sharon Stone's duplicitous Lori and Michael Ironside's ruthless Richter from Paul Verhoeven's 1990 version, Beckinsale's Lori — her first onscreen villain — is baddie Cohaagen's (Bryan Cranston) loyal right-hand woman, embittered by the humiliating role she's been assigned, but relishing in her dogged pursuit of Farrell's Quaid with glee. (She also boasts unfailingly fantastic hair, in keeping with Beckinsale's action cinema filmography.) Beckinsale sat for a chat with Movieline about Total Recall, Lori's inner psyche, how marriage lends insight to her working relationship with Wiseman, and how she resolves her "Kate Beckinsale" public image/action heroine reputation with her literary roots and lesser-seen work.

This version of Total Recall is quite different from the Verhoeven original in many ways, including its emphasis on a more geopolitical commentary. But the Lori character in particular, which is vastly expanded here, is a sharp, strong woman who literally rejects this domestic role that she’s been given, playing wife to Douglas Quaid at the behest of her employer.

I think she’s an extremely highly trained, highly intelligent, and very much at the top of her field operative, and the detail that she’s been given is actually quite degrading, if you think about it. For a police officer at that level to have to basically sleep in a bed, have sex with, make dinner for this person who appears to be a factory worker of no real note indefinitely, must be incredibly frustrating – and I think must feel like, “I have this because I’m a woman.” And there’s nothing more maddening than to feel like you’re being passed over or degraded or humiliated because of your gender.

Were these elements that were in the sсript originally, or did those shades come in as you worked on the character?

It was a little more sketched, and I know that Len wanted to feel like that about her, so it was quite early on when we were talking about the character. Because otherwise I think it’s peculiar; first of all, it’s a strange situation for someone to be undercover pretending to be somebody’s wife. What would that feel like, if you were that highly trained? And equally, there’s nothing more boring than a bad guy who’s just being a bad guy for no reason.

Mainstream audiences know you best from the Underworld movies and as this lithe, lethal action heroine, but your career began with very different kinds of roles; ironically, the character of Hero in Much Ado About Nothing was one of your first breakthrough parts. And even before that, some of your first awards came as a writer, for your poetry. Does it feel strange to you that so many moviegoers know you primarily for your action roles in the Underworld movies and the like?

I think that dwelling on other people’s perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that. You can’t help it a bit, because it is quite odd when other people are responsible for conveying your image or your words. That is quite a strange spot to be in, especially if things do come off unfamiliar. You can feel a bit gypped. But I suppose a part of you has to go, there is a kind of penalty for being so lucky to have this kind of a job that those things are going to happen. I do feel very fulfilled by the work that I’ve done, and often by the work that I’ve done that many people haven’t seen. So the bottom line is, I have actually done the work and I’ve had that experience, and it has been amazing. And yes, it would be nice if more people were aware of those, but at the end of the day it’s more important that I’ve actually had the experience.

Even on Google, the first items that pop up about you involve your “Sexiest Woman Alive” type honors, or quote you talking about nude scenes…

It’s maddening! And the thing is, a lot of the time you’ll do a whole long interview with somebody and then they’ll say, “By the way, have you thought about doing a nude scene?” and that’s the thing… so it’s quite skewed in terms of the balance of the interview where you’re talking about all sorts of things, but people tend to pull out the one that fits the image they have for you. And that can be a little bit annoying if it’s always about, you know, not having knickers on or being sexy or what beauty products are you using? I have no idea who that person is. It’s just odd when you kind of go, I’m coming off a bit as the sort of person who walks into a room and tries to tell everyone what I’m eating all day.

Len [Wiseman] said he wanted to cast you in the role of Lori because he saw aspects in the character that he thought you hadn’t had the chance to play onscreen before very much – even Lori’s guile, her complexity. She’s not a comedic character, but the film has a sense of humor about her. What’s your take on Lori as a role?

I think this is a really good part, and really great parts don’t come along every ten seconds. But I think the thing that’s great about her is she’s really intelligent – she’s obviously a bit unhinged, but she’s a very, very smart person, and people who are crazy and smart at the same time are usually the most dangerous people. I think he really wanted to get a sense of that, and I may have been in some rather not-very-intelligent looking photo shoots and/or movies, but my husband observes me in my natural habitat and knows that I’m quite a smart girl.

It’s nice that your offscreen relationship could help lend that sort of insight into your working relationship.

And it means he’s not just receiving the kind of Kate Beckinsale that’s out there.

The quote-unquote “Kate Beckinsale.”

Yes!

There's a dichotomy and gender reversal as Lori reveals herself and attempts to kill Quaid: As she chases him through the city, it's clear that she’s highly lethal and the disoriented Quaid is rather clumsy and scared. Later you two have the most brutal hand-to-hand fight, but it remains on equal footing.

I really like the movie, for all of that. It’s a very fun ride, but it’s actually very thoughtful.

What deeper meaning could we draw from Len casting his own wife as the ultimate evil wife? And all the film’s many nods to their sham marriage, were those written in to begin with?

Some of them were, some of them we came up with. But we obviously don’t have that sort of relationship. Len is still walking around! [Laughs]

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‘Total Recall’ Interview: Colin Farrell & Jessica Biel

[Diary Total Recall]

During the production of Len Wiseman’s Total Recall, I drove down to Toronto’s Pinewood Studios to spend a full day with the cast and crew of the remake based on the classic Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.”

While on set, I had the opportunity to sit down for half an hour with stars Colin Farrell and Jessica Biel who play Doug Quaid and Melina, respectively, as key returning characters from the original. In our discussion, we touch on the key differences in their characters, the importance of remakes and what sort of mental trip the film will take moviegoers on.

List of topics discussed in this interview:

* Differences in the Quaid and Melina characters from the original to the remake.
* Arnold’s classic one-liners and which ones return.
* Meeting expectations from fans of the original.
* Colin Farrell’s feelings on remakes and the one film that should never be remade (unless he’s in it).
* Ethan Hawke’s role in the film.
* The various versions of Total Recall that director Len Wiseman could make with what they shot.
* Quick fan questions about Blade, Daredevil, In Bruges and The A-Team.

Warning: There are plot/character spoilers from the original and new Total Recall within this post. The major new spoiler is on page 2 and you’ll be able to skip it with links below.

How does the 1990 character of Doug Quaid/Hauser differ from this 2012 version you’ve created?

FARRELL: There’s a distinct lack of one-liners. That’s the most noticeable omission, when I read this sсript. I mean it’s really hard to try and compare the two things, purely because I know one, having read it and experienced it practically which is this one, and I know the other one having been a fan of it way back when, but never having read the sсript. It’s really hard to put my finger on it on how different the two are because a lot of what both the films or what one film is or what other film will be– what Paul Verhoeven’s was and what ours will be is down to Verhoeven’s influence on the original sсript and Len’s influence on this sсript, because it’s so conceptual and it will be so about the look but also about the feel of it. Ours will feel very different, certainly, I don’t want to say it’s darker or heavier but it’s more dramatic.

I love the original Total Recall still, as a fan of film, but this one is less tongue and cheek. It’s the most simple way to put it. It really is. It’s less tongue and cheek and less camp, and I say camp not in a pejorative way , but in a way Total Recall – when it came out – was kind of camp, never mind now, it’s not just something that has earned its pizzazz badge in the last 15 years as a result of time passing. Even at the time it was kind of camp and a little bit over the top and a little bit bigger than reality in the sensibility of the piece even. This seems to be a little bit more grounded in truth and again I don’t mean that in an insulting way to the original. It’s just there’s less one-liners, thank fuck, because no one delivers a one-liner quite like Arnie and it’s hard enough to compete with that (laughs). I mean it’s very different, you know.

My guy I think has a harder time understanding who he is because – Arnie’s Quaid, his fracture is kind of accompanied by some form of seemingly self-knowledge like he’s like “get away from me! I’m a spy!” He goes through that first, whereas my guy really can’t – they’ve done a really good job toasting him, he can’t remember a single thing. The only thing he does recall is a feeling. He can’t remember anything that the mind has done, but he can remember a feeling and the feeling is very much in relation to the woman in his life, Melina, played by… I now hand you over to the beautiful and talented Jessica Biel.

BIEL: (laughs)

Throughout today we learned that a lot of the characters are going through some changes from the original to this one, like Kuato is now Matthias, but you guys keep the same names. You’re still Melina in this one but how does your character differentiate from what Rachel did in the original? Is it different or is it a similar journey?

BIEL: They are taking a similar journey, together, though with a lot of question marks and a lot of confusion. I think where Rachel’s character and this Melina differ specifically is that originally her character – I remember the first time she sees him, she slaps him across the face and she’s like ‘don’t you remember me? You love me!’ She’s very clear who this person is, what he is to her.

FARRELL: Yeah, she goes maybe you’ll remember you’ll love me…

BIEL: Exactly.

FARRELL: … once you get your memory back (laughs).

BIEL: Right, and Melina, this Melina – we talk about this a lot – is she 100% sure this is, first of all, the guy, which we realize, yes, but she’s not sure what he knows and how does she respond to him and how can she be compassionate towards him. I feel like there’s a much greater level and sense of compassion to her…

FARRELL: …demonstration of patience…

BIEL: … to look at the man that she knows is the man she loves, knows that somewhere in there are the memories and the feelings and hopefully he will be able to capture who he was and remember us at all. But it’s much more of a touch and go with each other and she’s much more sensitive to that. And all the same things Colin is saying about Quaid now as opposed to what Arnold did with the character, it’s just a bit more grounded. She’s just a little less big, a little less of a caricature. And again, that was perfect for that tone and that time, so that’s not a negative view of that character at all.

FARRELL: You hope you don’t strangle the fun out of it, because it is a different film and the original was a lot of fun. I have a friend who has two sons who are very bright, they’re 14 and 16 and kind of at the age where they’re very bright and too cool, saying ‘Captain America ***** and Thor whatever’ and I’m like ‘well, I kinda liked it’ and I’m embarrassed to say it in front of them but they saw the original Total Recall and were like ‘that was fucking fun’ and the dad was like, ‘don’t say fucking,’ and they were like ‘yeah, but it was fun, dad!’ And he told me that it is a really fun film, and you hope that this is. I mean there are a thousand ways and it’s really hard to capture any of them on film, but this is a different way. There are different questions being asked and I know Len is diligently pursuing some kind of emotional truth that’s dressed up in this really beautiful and magnificent backdrop of this future world that he has envisioned and created with a really wicked production team.

You did another remake in Fright Night, what is the biggest challenge about working on a story that has already been told?

FARRELL: Answering questions about it afterwards (laughs). Answering questions about it afterwards is tricky you know, like I genuinely was a fan of film long before I thought of being an actor so I have certain pockets of my youth and my childhood that are significantly tied in with songs, with films. As I said, if I hear they are remaking Goonies I may not be that happy. You know, I may get a little pissed off and go ‘really? Okay.’ Unless I get the call to play Sloth (laughs). I have the Superman T-shirt ready.

Farrell proceeds to do a Sloth impression, loudly shouting “hey you guys!” as the group and Biel laugh.

FARRELL: But seriously, so I understand why people get frustrated. I mean, I’m well aware that there is this whole kind of pocket of the filmgoing public that are like ‘ugh, remakes, how unoriginal’ and all that stuff. So, it’s kind of addressing that or being aware of that and then not apologizing for what you do at the same time, but respecting that people have their opinions. And you just hope – and it’s too much to ask the people go in and judge something like this based on its own, especially if they have some heart for the original. But you just hope that what you do, I mean you just don’t think of the original – that’s the hardest thing for me because of both Fright Night and Total Recall, is to go, trust in the concept of this one, trust that Kuato is a bit different and designed differently as Matthias and that that’ll work, trust that the relationship between us (points to Jessica) is something that we’ve worked on hard enough and long enough that it’ll carry the audience through it. I can see what Len is gonna do, I’ve seen the artistic renderings and how he is creating the world. I know that is going to be fucking magnificent looking, I know it’s gonna be so beautiful. You just have to switch off any expectation you have, even as an actor born of being a fan and just commit completely to the originality of a remake I suppose, as much of an oxymoron as that is.

Jessica, it sounds like when you were talking of the relationship between your two characters, you were holding back a little bit. I learned from Neal (Moritz) that Ethan Hawke is playing (points to Colin).

FARRELL: See, I have no idea how much is known…

I don’t think he was supposed to tell us…

BIEL: (Laughs) I don’t know, I’m always being careful about what to say…

FARRELL: (laughs) Note to self: Neal Moritz.

We can’t write about this for a year anyway, but I will ask, does that complicate the relationship?

BIEL: It does absolutely complicate the relationship.

FARRELL: It’s as much about mutual distrust kind of at the beginning.

(To BIEL) Do you know it’s him?

BIEL (to FARRELL): Have we made this decision yet about the dream sequence?

FARRELL: No, not really (laughs).

BIEL: There’s a big question mark about…

FARRELL: I still don’t understand it by the way so I’m not comfortable talking about it (laughs).

BIEL: A sniper is about to take us all out in about 10 seconds (laughs). It’s hugely complicated and we’re trying to decide. All of us are having conversations about it, but Len [Wiseman] is trying to figure out how do we make it the most clear for the audience, because we’re all having trouble together after we read it multiple times and sitting down speaking about It, constantly checking each other and saying ‘oh wait a minute, we can’t do this because, oh right.’ So we’re having multiple conversations about it and thinking if we’re having a hard time understanding this concept of he looks different in the beginning, how I do know for sure? That’s kind of what I was saying there being a mutual distrust about it. We also might decide to…

FARRELL: (imitates sound and action of shooting a shotgun) If it were a Robert Rodriguez film that’s what it’d be.

At this point, Farrell and Biel felt much more open and excited about their character arcs and were overlapping each other in conversation trying to piece together how it could work and how they’d like it to work.

BIEL: It’s complicated. We’re not sure how it’s going to end up. I guess the one uncomplicated part is that I don’t actually… Melina doesn’t actually have a scene with Ethan [Hawke].

FARRELL: Thank god.

That may have been weird for audiences…

BIEL: So there isn’t a ‘here I am with you before and now here I am with you’

FARRELL: That would be weird? That would be weird. There was nearly a moment, a bit of a flashback to where it was going to go back to, and at the end of it, it was kind of like weird to have the audience get used to…

[Update: Ethan Hawke's role is not in the final cut of the film.]

Next: One-liners, Remakes and fan questions for Biel and Farrell.

That was changed?

FARRELL: Well yeah, who knows what’s going to be in? There was stuff covered and stuff like that, I mean, this will be a film that genuinely… Len will have such a wonderful and I would imagine, complicated journey through in the edit. It really will. The mental work he has ahead of him with all the coverage that he’s got and with the options that he has. I’ve never seen before cleanly, how two or three films can be made from what we’ve already have in the can. So it’ll be fascinating to see.

FARRELL: In this one, not only have they robbed Quaid psychology of his experiences in life but they’ve changed him physically as well. So with that in mind, Melina represents the resistance and there are a lot of trust issues at stake. The most obvious one is me not knowing who the fuck I am, so thereby not knowing who I am in relation to anyone else. And if I’m told, which I am initially in the story in the 15 minutes that my wife is not my wife, that my job is not my job, that my friend is not my friend, that nothing is what it seems. Well then, this woman comes into my life carrying herself like she knows me, well then of course, the most obvious point of distrust is from me to her, but it works mutually as well in this where it didn’t in the first one.

That’s probably the biggest change in terms of characters.

FARRELL: That’s a really big one.

BIEL: Huge, huge one. Right, because he sort of has to trust me just because he’s dreamed of my face before. That’s the only thing when he first sees me that he can remember…

FARRELL: (laughs).

BIEL: … And I’m starting to get to him in different ways because of different physical attributes that maybe haven’t been changed or I’m inspiring some sort of feeling. More than a memory, it’s a feeling that’s growing in his brain and in his body that he just feels that he can trust me.

FARRELL: That’s what the whole film would ideally be, would be a kind of treatise. I mean it’s an action film, right? It’s supposed to be enjoyable and that’s predominantly the best thing. If it moves and people are gripped by it and it’s exciting, we’ve succeeded. But it can also be somewhat a treatise on the idea of the emotional intellect over just mental, than that’s a cool thing as well because Quaid doesn’t ever get to a stage where he’s given back his experiences, where he’s given back his mind necessarily… maybe, maybe not, I’m not sure (smile). But certainly, he comes to a place of resolution with elements of his past, the greatest element being the woman that he loved loves.

Director Len Wiseman on the set of Total Recall

Is the face and the bomb going to be in this?

FARRELL: No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There’s things like that that as a fan I say ‘oh, can we’? but it was like, it was done and done brilliantly. I literally ran into a trainer one day with fucking YouTube, saying ‘look at this.’ You know? That goes back to what you were saying, it’s one of the hardest things to shut that off and go this is different. It’s inspired by the same concept but it’s very, very different.

But do you get to say, “If I’m Not Me, Then Who The Hell Am I?”

FARRELL: I do get to say that line and I do get say a variation on “consider that a divorce,” something about being separated from my wife. But I couldn’t get my head, like literally could not wrap my own feeble mind around saying in a scene with Kate Beckinsale as she dies, “consider that a divorce.” It would be like ‘what the fuck?’ That’s a different film. You know what I mean? It’s kind of really good ground for me. No, he wouldn’t say that. I wouldn’t say it. But Arnie could come out and say ‘consider that a divorce’ and it’s brilliant. We have a variation of that.

I have a few quick questions from some of our readers, first for you, Jessica. The A-Team, Our readers want a sequel, can you make it happen?

BIEL: I can’t. I’m not powerful enough like that to make that happen.

Colin, In Bruges, would you do a prequel?

FARRELL: Sure!

Back to you [Biel]. With Blade 3, there was a potential for a spin-off with Ryan Reynolds’ character. Is that something that would have interested you?

BIEL: Definitely! I had so much fun doing that movie, It was a blast! We would have loved to do that.

And last for you [Farrell], In Daredevil you played the villain, would you consider playing the lead in the remake?

FARRELL: Would I? Nah. I don’t think I could. Could I? No. Possibly. No, I’m done with remakes. I’m officially done with remakes.

Reboots?

FARRELL: Yeah yeah yeah, reimagined. How’s that? (laughs). Retelling? (laughs). I’m done, I’m two now, two in and out. But you hear so many things, everything. There are remakes that are better films than some original films, of course. Something doesn’t live and die by the fact that it’s inspired by a story that went before it, or is a retelling of a story that went before it. It really doesn’t. I mean, there are some: The Thing, The Fly, there are some wonderful revisitations. Jeff Buckley singing fucking Hallelujah, I’m not saying I’m comparing this to that you know, I mean interpretation is equally important as original concept. Because I’ve read great scripts that are shit films and I’ve read shit scripts that you get someone who interprets it in a particular way, a director who’s really able, and they make a wonderful film. My point being, I heard they are making Robocop and I’m like ‘ohhhh, wow.’ Brilliant, what a Greek tragedy that is, and that character and what he goes through. Talk about life taken from him and for what cause? Oh my god, it’s such brilliant stuff.

BIEL (to FARRELL): So, if they were to do a Goonies remake, which by the way, I might have to kill somebody.

FARRELL: I’m really telling you…

BIEL: You can’t mess with it.

FARRELL: Give me three years, I’ll feed the shit out of myself and I can do the fucking truffle shuffle.

BIEL: I was going to say, what is the truffle shuffle of 2012? What is that?

FARRELL: It’s just not as much fun.

BIEL: It’s just not as much fun. Don’t mess with it. (laughs)

The interview concluded with fun banter with the pair imitating each other with compliments, exemplifying the high spirited and fun nature of this shoot. That same can be said about the entire crew and everyone we met on the production. For more on that, read my full Total Recall set visit report.

Total Recall stars Colin Farrell, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Biel, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy, Ethan Hawke, John Cho and Bokeem Woodbine. It is directed by Len Wiseman off a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback.

@темы: Джессика Бил, о фильме, Колин Фаррелл, интервью

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‘Total Recall’ Interview: Toby Jaffe & Neal Moritz

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During the production of Total Recall, I drove down to Toronto’s Pinewood Studios to spend a full day with the cast and crew of the remake based on the classic Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.”

While on set, I spent some time in the trailer of producers Toby Jaffe and Neal Moritz who shared details on the motivation and ideas behind the upcoming re-imagining of Total Recall, differences between it and the original, and much, much more.

What was the greatest challenge of adapting a story that’s been done before?

Neal: Luckily the source material was so good that it had such a great idea and jumping off point of being able to walk in a place and have these fantastic vacations, a mental holiday… It was just such an intriguing idea to us. You know, you work these jobs and you go into the corner or walk into one of these places, get this thing done and feel like you’ve been on vacation for two weeks or had some incredible experience, whether you’re a thrill junkie or whatever it is. That to me was just such a fantastic idea whether it had already been made or not.

How did this project originate and tell us about the obstacles in getting the rights to remake Total Recall?

Toby: It started with us reading the original story again and realizing how rich it was and how great it was and we set out to find out where the movie rights were and it turned out that was sort of a complicated situation. It took us about six months to actually get the rights and I think our initial instinct really was just to start from scratch and go from the short story, but also going back and looking at the film, there were certain touchstone moments that for the segment of the audience that knows it, you want to find some way to reference them, but the challenge was to reinvent them in a fresh way, but at the same time not be bound by that movie at all.

And I think one of the big things that we decided early on was to try and tell a more grounded version of the story, something that feels, in terms of the world, is relatable as possible. And so I think part of that was not to go to Mars and not put yourself in a position where you have to kind of create a pure fantasy world which that would require. And given the cinematic era we’re in right now with visual effects with movies like Avatar and stuff like that, you’re going to Mars and all of a sudden you’ve got that bar to kind of measure up to. And so it just seemed like if we wanted to do a futuristic action movie that you felt as an audience member that you could put yourself in, that would be my fantasy of being a spy to try and keep it within a futuristic version of Earth seemed like tonally the right way to go.

So that was a goal right from the beginning?

Toby: Right from the beginning. Kurt Wimmer, who pitched us his take, that was his take. ‘Let’s keep it on Earth and it’ll be very futuristic, but it’ll be an extension of our world today.’

Avoiding any conflicts with other Mars-based films like John Carter?

Toby: That wasn’t on our mind at the time, but it just turned out that way.

What were your first impressions on the tech and designs of this version of the future?

Neal: Luckily we had seen so many evolutions of this as the pre-production period was going on, seeing different variations of the China Fall, different variations of weapons, robot suits and cars. We were impressed by the vision of Len [Wiseman] and Pat [Tatopoulos] had of what the future would be.

Toby: You can actually see right up there [pointing to wall in trailer featuring concept art], that’s one of the first images Len developed with Patrick and his team of what he saw this futuristic world looking like.

The original Total Recall won an Oscar for effects…

Neal: That’s our aspirations, to be as good or better than the last one. This is kind of a wholly original version of Recall, even though we have touched on moments that touch back to the original, but this is a movie we’re trying to make that stands on its own.

Can you tell us about the casting process in selecting Colin?

Neal: Colin was the first person involved. He was somebody I had worked with in the past who I loved. We really wanted a ‘real man’ and we went to him first and luckily he wanted to do it and we were off to the races after that. And then we added Jessica and Kate, and then Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy and Ethan Hawke. It was just one of these things where people were really interested in doing the movie so it wasn’t that hard.

@темы: о фильме, интервью, продюсеры

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‘Total Recall’ Official Synopsis & Kate Beckinsale Interview

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One entry on our Most Anticipated Movies of 2012 list that seems to surprise a number of people is Total Recall: a film that’s part reboot of the popular 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action romp, part re-interpretation of the original Philip K. Dick short story, “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale”.

For more insight on why the film (arguably) has the potential to be something more memorable than yet another Hollywood remake that pales in comparison to the original, you need look no further than the newly-released official synopsis – and word from costar Kate Beckinsale, about her “altered” role in the film.

First things first: here is the official synopsis for the new Total Recall (courtesy of Sony Pictures):

Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he’s got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life – real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston), the leader of the free world – Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) to find the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy) and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

So, yeah, in many ways, the new Total Recall‘s plot sounds similar to director Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 Schwarzenegger vehicle – with some big exceptions, including how the setting is restricted solely to Earth, rather than taking place in part on Mars, and what producer Neil Moritz describes as “a great twist” to the plot that (apparently) neither Dick’s source material nor Verhoeven’s movie had.

However, the big element that isn’t touched on in the above synopsis relates to how the new Total Recall‘s primary screenwriter, Kurt Wimmer (Equilibrium, Ultraviolet, Street Kings) is focusing more on the existential themes present in Dick’s original story. Those sci-fi philosophical elements were present in the 1990 version, but played second fiddle to the Schwarzenegger action movie trademarks, such as the cheesy one-liners and mindless gratuitous violence.

Similarly, the new Total Recall should benefit from having the lead role played by Farrell, who has re-invented himself as more of a capable character actor in recent years (see: Cassandra’s Dream, In Bruges, The Way Back, etc.). Likewise, the supporting cast includes always-solid actors such as Bryan Cranston and Bill Nighy, along with Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel – who are both best at playing kick-ass ladies, as is the case here.

Beckinsale spoke with Collider at the beginning of this year about both the upcoming Underworld Awakening and her role in Total Recall, which reunites the actress with her husband/director Len Wiseman. Here’s what she had to say about her role as Douglas Quaid’s wife (ie. Lori) in the latter project:

“It’s going really great, and everyone’s very excited about it. I suppose the thing is, Sharon Stone’s interpretation of Lori [in the 1990 'Total Recall'] is safe because my character is more… It is Lori, but it’s an amalgamation of Lori and Richter. So I guess one of the differences about our movie as opposed to their movie is in that period of time they needed her to have a right hand man. I am the right hand man and Lori at the same time. So it’s a little bit more of an amalgamation of a couple of parts… And then for me there was a lot of… I mean, I’m beating everyone up. Fighting with Colin [Farrell], fighting with Jessica [Biel]. The fight with Jessica is going to be great. I like the fact that it’s a proper fight. It’s not two girls, and one of them, the shoulder is ripped off, and the bra comes out. It’s not like one of those stupid girl fights. It’s a proper fight.”

To sum it all up: there are some excellent ingredients being mixed together in the new Total Recall, including that of a more interesting (and intimidating) villainess played by Beckinsale, excellent acting talent filling important roles, and a plot that aims to better mix brains with futuristic set pieces and gritty action. If all those elements are used appropriately, then we could end up getting a quality sci-fi film on a par with, say, the Farrell-starring Minority Report. Sounds good enough for now, by our count.

We will see how it all turns out when Total Recall arrives in U.S. theaters on August 3rd, 2012.

Source: Sony Pictures, Collider

@темы: Кейт Бекинсейл, о фильме, интервью

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Полезные ссылки

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totalrecall-film.ru/ - официальный русский сайт
www.welcometorecall.com/ - официальный сайт
www.welcometorekall.com/ - компания "Total Recall", где вы можете быть кем угодно
itunes.apple.com/us/album/total-recall-original... - все саундтреки к фильму на iTunes
wall.alphacoders.com/index.php?s=Movie&su=total... - кадры и обои

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Видео к фильму

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Интересные факты

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* Том Харди и Майкл Фассбендер рассматривались на роль Куэйда.
* Кейт Босуорт и Диана Крюгер рассматривались на роль Лори, а Ева Грин, Розарио Доусон и Пола Пэттон — на роль Мелины. Также на обе роли рассматривалась кандидатура Евы Мендес.
Персонаж Этана Хоука в сценарии имеет длинный монолог на пять страниц текста. Тем не менее его появление полностью вырезали из финальной версии фильма, а его имя пропало из титров. Эти сцены можно будет увидеть на DVD.
* Ранее Колин Фаррелл снимался в фильме «Особое мнение» (2002), который так же снят по рассказу Филипа К. Дика, и был первоначально сделан как продолжение оригинальной версии фильма «Вспомнить всё» (1990).
* Первый фильм, где супружеская пара Лен Уайзман и Кейт Бекинсейл работали вместе, несвязанный с фильмами серии «Другой мир».
* Одну сцену драки Колин Фаррелл выполнил сам, правда ее снимали 22 раза, прежде чем он сделал все идеально.
* Клерк за столом в компании «Вспомнить всё» говорит Куэйду: «Мы можем запомнить это для вас». Фильм снят по мотивам рассказа Филипа К. Дика «Мы вам всё припомним» (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale).
*Колин Фаррелл действительно провел ночь на съемочной площадке, потому что хотел «увидеть каково это – проснуться в будущем».
* При создании съемочной площадки для фильма строители потратили $10,000 за неделю на одни винты.
* Когда Куэйд получает свой сейф, можно заметить купюры с изображением Барака Обамы.
* Когда Куэйд пытается пройти через пост охраны на входе в UFB, на нем одето голографическое ожерелье, которое отображает лицо азиатского человека. За мгновение до этого видно женщину с пухлым лицом в желтом плаще. Женщина была изображением, которое давало ожерелье Куэйда в оригинальном фильме 1990 года.
* Пока Куэйд едет на «Скате», он читает Яна Флеминга «Шпион, который меня любил».
* Чтобы пройти 8,000 миль за 17 минут скорость у «Ската» должна быть приблизительно 28,235 миль в час. На таких скоростях он должен летать в вакууме, иначе загорится от трения воздуха.
* Время, чтобы добраться на «Скате» от Объединенной Федерации Великобритании (UFB) до Колонии, составляло 17 минут. Куэйд устанавливает таймер на бомбе на 15 минут, что означает, что взрыв должен произойти за две минуты до прибытия, а не несколькими минутами позже, как показано в фильме.

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Баннеры

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Правила оформления постов

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Коды шапок для фанфиков/переводов/фанарта/фанвидео/оффлайнов:

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<b>Название:</b>
<b>Автор: </b> [L]ник на дайри[/L]
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<b>Предупреждения:</b> OOC, сквики, кинки
<b>Критика:</b> желательна / не желательна / возможна в мягкой форме 
<b>Комментарии автора:</b> мой первый фанфик ™ и т.д.

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<b>Комментарии автора:</b> мой первый фанфик ™ и т.д.

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@темы: сообщество, административное, правила

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Правила сообщества

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1. На территории сообщества действуют правила @дневников. Нарушения будут строго караться.
2. Уважайте участников сообщества, ни в коем случае не переходите на личности и не используйте нецензурную лексику.
3. Создавая сообщение, обязательно пишите к нему заголовок, отражающий его общую суть, и проставляйте все необходимые тэги. Если в списке тэгов нет нужного вам, напишите небольшой постскриптум в сообщении, и модератор исправит это упущение.
4. Картинки больше 500 пикселей прячьте под кат, для больших изображений используйте превью. Больше трех изображений в превью - кат!
5. Когда выкладываете фанфик, все, кроме шапки прячете под кат!
6. Посты с фанфиками любых пейрингов и любого направления с рейтингом NC-17 и выше необходимо делать закрытыми с обязательными пометками "материалы для взрослых" и "только для членов сообщества". Все фанфики должны сопровождаться шапкой.
7. Посты с фанартом также сопровождайте шапкой, в которой обязательно указывайте рейтинг работы. Фанарт с рейтингом NC-17 и выше необходимо прятать под кат.
8. ВСЯ РЕКЛАМА ТОЛЬКО ПОСЛЕ СОГЛАСОВАНИЯ С АДМИНИСТРАЦИЕЙ!

@темы: сообщество, административное, правила