Total Remake Story

"Total Recall"

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Neal H. Moritz and his Original Films banner are in final negotiations to develop and produce for Columbia a contemporary version of 'Total Recall,' the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi action movie directed by Paul Verhoeven.

The original, based on the Philip K. Dick story 'We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,' follows 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."

This is another movie that has been on my list for a few years.
It won an Oscar for visual effects, but Moritz said "he hoped the advancements in technology and state-of-the-art visual effects can help tell the 'Recall' story in a fresh way." I just find that ironic in some way.


"The NeverEnding Story"

According to The Hollywood Reporter, "Warner Bros. and a pair of top-tier production banners are in the early stages of a reboot of the 1980s children's fantasy classic.

The Kennedy/Marshall Co. ('The Curious Case of Benjamin Button') and Leonard DiCaprio's shingle Appian Way are in discussions with Warners about reviving the 25-year-old franchise with a modern spin. The studio recently acquired rights to the property, clearing the way for a potential remake.

Born out of a German-language novel by Michael Ende, the film centers on a boy named Bastian Balthazar Bux who discovers a parallel world in a book titled 'The NeverEnding Story.' As the boy, a loner, delves deeper into the book, he increasingly finds his life intertwined with the plot of the novel, in which a hero in the land of Fantasia must save the universe on behalf of an empress.

The new pic -- which original producer Dieter Geissler also will produce and Sarah Schechter and Jesse Ehrman will oversee for Warners -- will examine the more nuanced details of the book that were glossed over in the first pic."

I don't know what to say about this. "The NeverEnding Story" is a cult classic and its fantasy genre has been the origins for many other fantasy stories, such as "Harry Potter." The original movie was mostly a cast of unknowns but has become dear to many hearts of many fans.

More news to come! Catch ya' later!