Multiple Emmy winner Bryan Cranston has signed on to play the villain in the upcoming reboot of Total Recall.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Cranston will play Vilos Cohaagen in the reboot.
Cranston will star opposite Colin Ferrell in the film. Ferrell is taking over the role originally played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The original 1990 movie was based on a Philip K. Dick story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” The film followed a man haunted by a recurring dream of journeying to Mars who buys a literal dream vacation from a company called Rekall Inc., which sells implanted memories. The man comes to believe he is a secret agent and ends up on a Martian colony, where he fights to overthrow a despotic ruler controlling the production of air.
The new story involves nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai, with Douglas Quaid (Farrell) a factory worker in the latter who begins to believe he is a spy, although he doesn’t know for which side.
Cranston would play Vilos Cohaagen, the leader of Euromerica who, under the cover of protecting his people, is secretly readying an invasion of New Shanghai.
Cranston has won three Emmys in a row for his work on AMC’s Breaking Bad. He also was Hal on Malcolm in the Middle.
If there’s only one movie then isn’t it a remake not a reboot? I though only franchises got reboots.
Not even sure why they are calling it ‘Total Recall’ or a reboot. Just change the names and save themselves the license fees.
Obviously assuming that we sci-fi loving lemmings will go see it just because it has some connection to another genre film.
Obviously assuming correctly that at least i’d love to see this remake… Total Recall recalls a better time in the action genre, though I doubt the filmmakers will go as far as they need to go in terms of either a Philip K. Dick story (The Adjustment Bureau), or a crazy Arnie action flick…
Collin ferrell is going to follow in the foot steps of the biggest action star ever? REALLY? Why not get justin beiber to do the role and be don with it? What a wreck of a remake this will be !