The trailer for this summer’s Total Recall just hit the Internet and I was stunned at how similar it looked — but not to the original Total Recall, to a completely different sci-fi movie from even further back.
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Flying cars? Oriental art design? Synthetically enhanced humans? This trailer makes me think more of Blade Runner than Total Recall — which makes sense, since the source material for both movies was the mind of Philip K. Dick. Here’s hoping this is the sci-fi equivalent to the True Grit the Coen Brothers gave us: Not a re-make of the original movie, but a re-adaptation of the book.
I wasn’t really looking forward this movie, but now I’m going to have to see it on the big screen.