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what is real and what is simulated
whatever-your-name-is get ready for the
big surprise
you are not you you’re me no shit
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be exploring ten pieces of trivia you
should know about Total Recall ready to
Dreamland consider the source kicking
off our list is a fun fact about the
origins of this sci-fi stunner Total
Recall wasn’t a Hollywood invention at
all it was actually a loose adaptation
of Philip K Dix 1966 short story we can
remember it for you wholesale that tells
a fantastic science fiction tale about
fabricated memories the story that
started it all unlike the film’s dick
story focused on a man who is unable to
afford a trip to Mars and instead buys a
simulated vacation where he is a secret
agent why go to Mars as a tourist when
you can go as a playboy or a famous job
or a secret agent how much is that
however it is soon revealed that he is
an actual undercover government assassin
who holds dangerous secrets attempts to
kill him fail and so he makes a deal to
exchange his real memories for fantasy
memories where he saved the earth from
aliens but that also turns out to be
true huh Dan the man only know he’s been
bought and not the long road through
development hell dad Total Recall had a
turbulent ride to the big screen after
buying the story’s rights the writers of
alien penned the first screenplay in
1974 without studio backing eventually
producer Dino De Laurentiis signed off
and actors like Richard Dreyfuss and
Patrick Swayze were approached however
when De Laurentiis studio went bankrupt
Arnold Schwarzenegger took the
opportunity to persuade Kuroko to buy
the script and cast him for a 10 million
dollar salary fifteen percent of the
profits and veto power over production
we call it the ego trip oh I’m not
interested in that
fabricating reality is no
easy task
[Music]
after 40 script drafts that depicted the
main character as everything from an
accountant to Arnie’s suggestion of a
construction worker recall finally went
into production recall recall nobody
sells fake memories Oh Rico Rico Rico
Rico thinking of going in I don’t know
lady it became one of the last movies to
use large scale miniature effects and
one of the first to embrace CGI but they
didn’t need effects to create their
futuristic subway system they just used
the real Mexico City subway with a new
paintjob
and special sci-fi touches Arnie brings
the pain the problems bringing 1990s
Total Recall to the big screen were not
all development issues Arnie sustained
multiple injuries like a broken finger
and a crushed hand do the stunts gone
wrong which meant his hands were out of
frame for parts of the film Doug I’m
gonna call a doctor
don’t don’t call anybody but
schwarzenegger says one of his biggest
challenges was tangling with the drastic
changes his character went through
during the story come on don’t bullshit
me
no I’m telling you Doug your brain will
not know the difference the crew that
spewed during the film shoot in Mexico
the entire crew got food poisoning with
the exception of Arnie and writer Ronald
Shusett which have been creating this
thin blonds Schwarzenegger had learned
his lesson while shooting predator
overseas and had his food catered from
the u.s. Shusett took extreme health
measures and got weekly vitamin shots
everybody mocked him well until the
hurling started violence is never the
answer
because of the movies extreme violence
recall was given a devastating X rating
to open it to a wider audience the
carnage was edited down for a more
marketable R rating though seventy-seven
screen deaths still remained so this is
the tame version even with Arnie using a
dude as a meat shield
recall on the small screen total recall
2070 was a 1999 TV show that was meant
as a prequel to the 1990 movie since it
was set in 2080 for the series
incorporated robots from dicks novel Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and
borrowed visual elements from its movie
adaptation Blade Runner however aside
from keeping the memory planting company
recall 2070 shared no similarities with
its sources and didn’t even credit the
author should I think he now
[Music]
how about now the castes the thing Arne
wanted to reprise his recall role in the
2012 remake despite his age Colin
Farrell was finally picked as his
successor and this wasn’t the first time
he adapted dicks work years earlier
Farrell appeared in Minority Report
which was a version of philip k dick
story of the same name it was originally
developed as a Total Recall sequel and
was slated to star Schwarzenegger once
again but Tom Cruise was cast in the end
bullshit a reboot for the new millennium
rounding out our trivia list is more
info about the 2012 remake this reboot
took the story in a new direction by
ignoring all references to Mars and by
splitting earth into the battling
nations of new Shanghai and euro America
the 200 million dollar spectacle kept
audiences guessing which side colin
farrell was really on and featured him
in a stunning one-shot fight scene which
required 22 takes before he finally got
it right
what’s your favorite Total Recall
factoid for more entertaining trivia
videos be sure to visit us at
watchmojo.com you’re a hero
cue
[Music]
what is real and what is simulated
whatever-your-name-is get ready for the
big surprise
you are not you you’re me no shit
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be exploring ten pieces of trivia you
should know about Total Recall ready to
Dreamland consider the source kicking
off our list is a fun fact about the
origins of this sci-fi stunner Total
Recall wasn’t a Hollywood invention at
all it was actually a loose adaptation
of Philip K Dix 1966 short story we can
remember it for you wholesale that tells
a fantastic science fiction tale about
fabricated memories the story that
started it all unlike the film’s dick
story focused on a man who is unable to
afford a trip to Mars and instead buys a
simulated vacation where he is a secret
agent why go to Mars as a tourist when
you can go as a playboy or a famous job
or a secret agent how much is that
however it is soon revealed that he is
an actual undercover government assassin
who holds dangerous secrets attempts to
kill him fail and so he makes a deal to
exchange his real memories for fantasy
memories where he saved the earth from
aliens but that also turns out to be
true huh Dan the man only know he’s been
bought and not the long road through
development hell dad Total Recall had a
turbulent ride to the big screen after
buying the story’s rights the writers of
alien penned the first screenplay in
1974 without studio backing eventually
producer Dino De Laurentiis signed off
and actors like Richard Dreyfuss and
Patrick Swayze were approached however
when De Laurentiis studio went bankrupt
Arnold Schwarzenegger took the
opportunity to persuade Kuroko to buy
the script and cast him for a 10 million
dollar salary fifteen percent of the
profits and veto power over production
we call it the ego trip oh I’m not
interested in that
fabricating reality is no
easy task
[Music]
after 40 script drafts that depicted the
main character as everything from an
accountant to Arnie’s suggestion of a
construction worker recall finally went
into production recall recall nobody
sells fake memories Oh Rico Rico Rico
Rico thinking of going in I don’t know
lady it became one of the last movies to
use large scale miniature effects and
one of the first to embrace CGI but they
didn’t need effects to create their
futuristic subway system they just used
the real Mexico City subway with a new
paintjob
and special sci-fi touches Arnie brings
the pain the problems bringing 1990s
Total Recall to the big screen were not
all development issues Arnie sustained
multiple injuries like a broken finger
and a crushed hand do the stunts gone
wrong which meant his hands were out of
frame for parts of the film Doug I’m
gonna call a doctor
don’t don’t call anybody but
schwarzenegger says one of his biggest
challenges was tangling with the drastic
changes his character went through
during the story come on don’t bullshit
me
no I’m telling you Doug your brain will
not know the difference the crew that
spewed during the film shoot in Mexico
the entire crew got food poisoning with
the exception of Arnie and writer Ronald
Shusett which have been creating this
thin blonds Schwarzenegger had learned
his lesson while shooting predator
overseas and had his food catered from
the u.s. Shusett took extreme health
measures and got weekly vitamin shots
everybody mocked him well until the
hurling started violence is never the
answer
because of the movies extreme violence
recall was given a devastating X rating
to open it to a wider audience the
carnage was edited down for a more
marketable R rating though seventy-seven
screen deaths still remained so this is
the tame version even with Arnie using a
dude as a meat shield
recall on the small screen total recall
2070 was a 1999 TV show that was meant
as a prequel to the 1990 movie since it
was set in 2080 for the series
incorporated robots from dicks novel Do
Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and
borrowed visual elements from its movie
adaptation Blade Runner however aside
from keeping the memory planting company
recall 2070 shared no similarities with
its sources and didn’t even credit the
author should I think he now
[Music]
how about now the castes the thing Arne
wanted to reprise his recall role in the
2012 remake despite his age Colin
Farrell was finally picked as his
successor and this wasn’t the first time
he adapted dicks work years earlier
Farrell appeared in Minority Report
which was a version of philip k dick
story of the same name it was originally
developed as a Total Recall sequel and
was slated to star Schwarzenegger once
again but Tom Cruise was cast in the end
bullshit a reboot for the new millennium
rounding out our trivia list is more
info about the 2012 remake this reboot
took the story in a new direction by
ignoring all references to Mars and by
splitting earth into the battling
nations of new Shanghai and euro America
the 200 million dollar spectacle kept
audiences guessing which side colin
farrell was really on and featured him
in a stunning one-shot fight scene which
required 22 takes before he finally got
it right
what’s your favorite Total Recall
factoid for more entertaining trivia
videos be sure to visit us at
watchmojo.com you’re a hero
cue
[Music]
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